Aspidistra

_Aspidistra_ -- The aspidistra is the toughest of all foliage plants -- if not of all house plants. ❋ Unknown (1930)

The office was small, windowless with cinderblock walls, minimally furnished with a battered desk, a few chairs, a repellent aspidistra. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But even a potted aspidistra or two can make difference by oxygenating your workspace, whether you work at home or not. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He watched proceedings from the aspidistra side, while they watched from the pillars. ❋ Richard Harland (2009)

He reeks with emetic language that can only make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief, and the old heave-ho. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Knocking over two delicate tables and an aspidistra, he covered the floor between them in two strides and pulled Harry into a hug that nearly cracked his newly repaired ribs. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2007)

Not sure the comedy was intentional half the time, but who could argue with a giant aspidistra ordering a dragon (morphed into some sort of shambolic tramp-butler) and another dragon (morphed into esteemed newsreader Moira Stewart) to direct a vortex to vapourise 'celebrities' such as Keith Chegwin on a weekly basis? ❋ Kerron Cross (2006)

“The fronds of the aspidistra only partly concealed the commercial traveller —” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Orwell loved England, yes, but Hitchens's way of taking us through Orwell's England is through the oddest trajectory encompassing the metric system, the significance of the adverb '' beastly, '' love of animals and nature, and a very long parenthetical aside on the aspidistra. ❋ Unknown (2002)

A discouraged aspidistra stood in a tarnished brass pot near the unused counter. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

She pointed at the wall behind an enormous plastic aspidistra. ❋ Willis, Connie (1997)

To my amusement, in this place, his pipes were kept in a pipe rack, his tobacco not in a Persian slipper or a biscuit tin or beneath the nonexistent roots of an artificial aspidistra, but in a pouch, and his matches in a silver matchbox. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1995)

Man 1: wow that [Hash] is really [aspidistras] Man 2: yeah, definitely giving off a strong [vibe] ❋ Plemeno (2017)