Because that is a manchineel tree, she said, looking me in the eye. ❋ Kate Brian (2009)
Next to me on the rocks was my bottle of water, still almost full, my pile of manchineel apples, my purse, and my one shoe. ❋ KATE BRIAN (2009)
He suffered from poison of another kind; for drinking at a spring in which some boughs of the manchineel had been thrown, the effects were so severe as, in the opinion of some of his friends, to inflict a lasting injury upon his constitution. ❋ Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (1993)
In one of my excursions at this place I found a large manchineel tree. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
"You went to sleep under the shade of some poison-trees, manchineel trees, we call them here," the doctor explained. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
Lord Nelson, when a young man here in Barbados, was made very ill by drinking from a pool into which some branches of the manchineel had been thrown. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
Still weak from his illness after the manchineel poisoning, and exhausted as he was after a sleepless night in the grip of a hurricane, yet Stuart's first thought on leaving the hurricane wing was to get a news story to his paper. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
The salt ponds, sunken far below the level of the sea, from lack of rain, glittered white, but they were set with aloes and manchineel, and there were low and muddy flats to be avoided. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
Selika thereupon magnanimously despatches them home in Vasco's ship, and poisons herself with the fragrance of the deadly manchineel tree. ❋ J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland (1892)
There is no trace of a town having ever existed here, for the poisonous manchineel tree has spread itself over the ruins, and it is difficult to realise that twenty years ago the pride of the French West Indies stood here. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)
It was impossible to look at this handsome tree without some respect for its powers of evil, though I doubt if it be more poisonous than the West Indian manchineel. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)
Now and then a clump of the manchineel weighted the air with the fragrance of its poisonous apples, the banana rustled, or the bamboo tossed its graceful canes. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
Fritz feared that it might be the poisonous manchineel, against which I once warned them, but on examining it, I was induced to pronounce a more favourable opinion, and we collected a quantity in hopes that, if the monkey approved of it as well as the old sow, we might be able to enjoy a feast ourselves. ❋ Unknown (1882)
‘I hope so,’ said Jack, ‘but Fritz and I were afraid of eating some awful poison or other, like the manchineel, so we brought them for the inspection of the learned Master Knips.’ ❋ Unknown (1882)
I took one and cut it in two, remarking that it contained a circle of seeds or pips, instead of the stone of the manchineel. ❋ Unknown (1882)
Emerging from the shadow of the manchineel-trees, you may follow the road up, up, up, under beetling cliffs of plutonian rock that seem about to topple down upon the path-way. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Probably it had escaped from some barrel; for it is customary here to keep live crabs in barrels and fatten them, -- feeding them with maize, mangoes, and, above all, green peppers: nobody likes to cook crabs as soon as caught; for they may have been eating manchineel apples at the river-mouths. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
In the time of Père Dutertre it was believed these fish ate the apples of the manchineel-tree, washed into the sea by rains; -- to-day it is popularly supposed that they are rendered occasionally poisonous by eating the barnacles attached to copper-plating of ships. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
