_I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree; _ ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)
I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree; ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)
In style and appearance it is the very antithesis of “the upas-tree,” upon which legendary lore cast unmerited responsibility. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I permit so fair an existence to be blighted by the upas-tree of destiny under which I am doomed to languish? ❋ Various (N/A)
Such I believe to be the origin of the many fabulous stories that have passed from hand to hand, and from generation to generation, about the upas-tree of Java. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
To prove their absurdity, a friend of mine climbed up a upas-tree, and passed two hours in its branches, where he took his lunch and smoked a cigar. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
Before quitting Java, I must say a word about the far-famed upas-tree. ❋ G. F. Davidson (N/A)
This valley gave rise to the famous figment about the upas-tree, which once obtained such general belief in Europe. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
-- "Certainly we don't profess to keep a dying man alive upon the juice of the deadly upas-tree." ❋ Various (N/A)
These are as welcome as the brightness of newly minted coin to the eye which, in consulting grammar after grammar, has been condemned to meet under corresponding rules always the same examples, till they begin to produce that effect upon the nerves which all have experienced at the mention of the deadly upas-tree, or the imminence of the dissolution of the Union. ❋ Various (N/A)
As the upas-tree was said to blight all the country round it, so do these disagreeable folk prejudicially affect the whole surrounding moral atmosphere. ❋ Various (N/A)
Years ago travellers used to tell marvellous stories about a certain poison valley of Java in the centre of which stood an upas-tree. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
All that he had been and all that he had done, if man were only something more than man, if devil's luck and devil's power would come to his whistle, if the seed of his nature could defy the iron stricture of the flesh, reaching its height, shooting up into a terrible upas-tree -- so for the moment Baldry saw himself. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
Here, by the same waters, were the beginnings of popular government and the young upas-tree of slavery. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
He would have cherished it above the Gladstone axe, for, while that felled mighty oaks, this brief document laid the axe at the root of a deadly upas-tree which threatened the destruction of a free republic. ❋ Thompson, Slason (1901)
"It certainly is," he said with great gravity; "and I must come to the scarcely flattering conclusion that there is in me a source of hideous depravity, the unseen emanations of which, like those of the classic upas-tree, are purest poison to a woman morally constituted as you are." ❋ Unknown (1899)
