sage

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You can read her sage relationship advice at her blog.

Some call Warren Buffett the "Sage of Omaha".

If you have any sage words of feminine advice.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

And no one, especially not the idiotic sages around here, is capable of understanding us, since we're more sensitive and much more advanced in our thinking than any of them ever suspect!  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

"She didn't want us showing off," said Ron sagely.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

Bibwit bowed to the blue caterpillar-that oracle of oracles, sage of sages, wisest of the wise-sitting curled in a corner of the garden, puffing on his hookah while a gwynook-a small creature with a penguin's body and an old man's wrinkled face-waddled about on his back.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

To whom the monarch Agamemnon thus: "Great need, my noble brother, have we both Of sagest counsels, if we hope the Greeks And Grecian ships from ruin to preserve, Since turn'd against us is the mind of Jove.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Dean Sager, a former staff economist for the U.S. House of Representatives' Small Business Committee, has called Subway the "worst" franchise in America.†  (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920

Some of the people are saying the Eight sages took you away to teach you magic,  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975

"Nice-lookin' bruise you got there, kid." I touched my cheek gingerly. "Really?" Two-Bit nodded sagely. "Nice cut, too."  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

I take a deep breath as I soak in even more sage advice from her.  (source) Colleen Hoover, Slammed, 2012

Go, warn thy son, nor be the warning vain (Replied the sagest of the royal train); But bathed, anointed, and adorn'd, descend; Powerful of charms, bid every grace attend; The tide of flowing tears awhile suppress; Tears but indulge the sorrow, not repress.†  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

Sage has an earthy, minty flavor with light piney and citrus notes.  (source) Potter, Beatrix, The Original Peter Rabbit Books

He has a distinct smell—sweet and fresh, like sage and lemongrass.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

I liked to see them there, in their bowls and bottles: sage and rose, horehound, chicory, wild laurel, the moly in its stoppered glass.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Surrounded by chollas, bur sage, and the comical scurrying of collared lizards, McCandless pitched his tent in the puny shade of a tamarisk and basked in his newfound freedom.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Sea-foam green and sage, that's what you should look for, classic and feminine.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

I'd mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread.  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

You're supposed to use sage to clear out negative energy before you use sweet grass.  (source) P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast, Marked, 2007

They're puffing and sweating by the time they break out of the sage into our bald yard.  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

...a great variety of herb and root odors were almost hidden by the smell of mountain sage and something as ordinary as curry powder.  (source) Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977

The heavy smell of sage slipped down the hill.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, 1945

The bushes, and the long grasses, between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

A horseman showed dark on the sky-line, then merged into the color of the sage.  (source) Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912

Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows!  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843