Mint Tea

A delicious mint-tea pungency began to fill the sauna. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I was so involved in my mint-tea fantasy that I barely heard a message announced over the loudspeaker. ❋ Fatema Mernissi (2001)

Mother brought him some cold mint-tea which he at first declined, but when he saw her taste it he changed his mind and drank it. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Black slaves had placed before them brass trays with pots of mint-tea, glasses in filigree stands, and dishes of gazelles 'horns and sugar-plums, and they sat serenely absorbing these refreshments and gazing with large calm eyes upon the motionless water and the reflected trees. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Meanwhile fiery brandy or sweet champagne would probably be passed around between the steaming glasses of mint-tea which the slaves perpetually refilled; or perhaps the sultry air, the heavy meal, the scent of the garden and the vertiginous repetition of the music would suffice to plunge these sedentary worthies into the delicious coma in which every festive evening in Morocco ends. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Warwick Lane suggested mint-tea, and Pall Mall was all for bleeding. ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)

Glad enough is she to exchange mint-tea and jalap for water-gruel and milk-porridge. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Mom: ooh here comes [the mint] tea! Me: I will never understand why [you enjoy] hot [scope]. ❋ Strongly Opinionated Erin (2018)