And it delights in sending one into the gardenin search of roses or dahlias or upas-trees or something of the sort, of courseand thereby causing one to encounter the most unlikely people, and really, quite the last person one would have thought of meeting, as all frequenters of house-party junketings will assure you.

Let me tell you first about those barnacles that clog the wheels of society by poisoning the springs of rectitude with their upas-like eye.

The resinous spores, or seeds of the Lepidodendra make upas said abovea great part of the bituminous coal.

He would have tried a prescription of sleeping all night on wet grass under a upas tree, if such a remedy for rheumatism had come from Her.

Notwithstanding the curse of slavery, which, like a poisonous upas, taints the very air they breathe with the murdered remains of its victims, the white citizens of the south are extremely sensitive of their civil and political rights, and seem to regard the palladium of independence secured by their progenitors as an especial benefit conferred by the Deity for their good in particular.

[poisonous plants] hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort^, bhang, ganja^, hashish; Upas tree.

Such as are at this time endeavoring, by their swaggering and bullying, to cast on the fair fields of Kansas the deep curse of Slaverya curse which, like the poison of the deadly Upas, blights all within its influence: the colored and the white man, the slave and the master.

But the brutal manhood of Rome overshadowed and tainted the gentle exotic like a Upas-tree.

There's nothing worse than that; it is a very upas-breath, it puts on the brakes, and of course a chill and a restraint overcame them till Mr. Dudley was announced.

I was curious to discover whether it was occasioned by its flowing near one of the far-famed Poison trees (Upas antiar) of Java, but my informant could not satisfy my inquiry.

Perhaps Ann had given upas they were giving up.

So you don't want me to trim the trees upas some folks advise?" "O-h!"

I should be for ever miserable if my love proved a upas-tree.' 'A upas-tree!

I should be for ever miserable if my love proved a upas-tree.' 'A upas-tree!

Should the Triple Alliance break upas seems probable nowthis hour will soon have struck.[B]

"And, having got it, you'll telephone me to let upas you did in the House Bill Twenty-nine fiasco.

Of course if the Upas tree could be uprooted and banished from our midst,if with a wave of his magic wand some sorcerer could make it disappear, so much the better.

But after all supposing that you can transform your Upas tree into a fruit-bearing one, will not this be even better than to cut it down?

And God will yet enable us to graft into this wretched and apparently worthless Upas stock, a bud which in coming years shall be loaded with fruit that shall be the marvel of the world.

CO2 as a noxious gas also mentioned and discussedcauses mythical 'upas' treesulphurous fumes attend final stages.

And to know it a man must live here, and he will see the promising and ardent men sinking one after another in a deadly torpor, wrapped up in self-contemplation, dead to their Redeemer, and useless to His Church, under the baneful breath of this accursed upas tree.

"Abel at first looked rather foolish, but quickly recovering himself, said, "'All vegetable substances are not proper for food: you would not taste the poison-oak, or sit under the upas-tree of Java.'

UPAS TREE, a poison-yielding-tree, at one time fabled to exhale such poison that it was destructive to all animal and vegetable life for miles round it.

I have a bantering thought!though I am told Thou art inflexible, and stern, and bold; And that thy upas breath Rides on the vital air; Monarch and Prince of universal clime, Executor of the decrees of Time Sin's dark, eternal heir.

"Don't you know, Bainrothe, I am a fatal upas-tree to the wives of my bosom?