Poison Oak

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The word "poison-oak" in example sentences

And since neither one of them would touch the food stamps—they had jumped back when Ralph pulled them from his pocket as if they were fresh poison-oak leaves—they couldn't take them and sell them for cash later. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)

Here climbed in tantalizing beauty -- tempting as insidious vice, which attracts but to destroy -- the poison-oak vine. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)

We went to Alum Rock [a beautiful resort adjacent to San Jose] three weeks ago Thursday, and I got so badly poisoned [poison-oak] that there was not an inch of my body that was not covered and my eyes were swollen shut for two days. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Let us hope you will know and keep away from the "poison-oak," the low bush with pretty red leaves, for its leaves are apt to make your skin swell up and blister wherever they touch you. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)

Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets. ❋ Unknown (1910)

All about were evidences of a furious strug - gle; small sprouts of poison-oak were bent and denuded of leaf and bark; dead and rotting leaves had been pushed into heaps and ridges on both sides of the legs by the action of other feet than theirs; alongside the hips were unmistakable impressions of human knees. ❋ Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? (1909)

All about were evidences of a furious struggle; small sprouts of poison-oak were bent and denuded of leaf and bark; dead and rotting leaves had been pushed into heaps and ridges on both sides of the legs by the action of other feet than theirs; alongside the hips were unmistakable impressions of human knees. ❋ Unknown (1893)

These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascending, winding among the tangle of poison-oak and wild-rose bushes, leading from the miners 'cabins to the shaft-houses and tunnels of the mine which gave to the hills their only importance. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)

These are poison-oak, rattlesnakes and poisonous insects. ❋ George Wharton James (1890)

Luckily there were people who could touch poison-oak and suffer no harm. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Loyal as he was by nature, and as he had shown himself to Wisler, modest as to his own deserts, and slow to fancy himself valued by any woman, he could not now help seeing, as Wisler had seen the one motive which could have tempted Carmen Gaylor to send Angela May a box of poison-oak. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Indeed, she had even gone so far as to associate the box of poison-oak leaves with Mrs. Gaylor; and now the thought that the Spanish woman might have followed her to Tahoe sent a shiver through her veins. ❋ Unknown (1889)

If Carmen had committed the crime of sending the poison-oak, it must have been in a fit of madness, after hearing things -- stupid things -- from Miss Dene. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Put the affair of the poison-oak into their hands, and they would lasso every one concerned, with yards of red tape! ❋ Unknown (1889)

The poison-oak is plentiful in cool uplands and in ravines, and is general throughout the Pacific coast from Lower ❋ Lina Beard (1888)

The poison-oak closely resembles the poison-ivy, and is sometimes called by that name, but its leaves are differently shaped, being oval in outline with a few coarse, blunt teeth. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)

The further he goes the worse the jungle of poison-oak and ivy, which at last circles him round in strangling embrace. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

For in all woods and by every wayside there prospers an abominable shrub or weed, called poison-oak, whose very neighbourhood is venomous to some, and whose actual touch is avoided by the most impervious. ❋ Unknown (1884)

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