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The mandrake overseer had started ponderously toward him. But in a moment the thing's attention was directed to some other object of torture. Hanson braced himself as the lines of slaves beneath him settled themselves to the ropes. There was a loud cracking of whips and a chorus of groans. A small drum took up a beat, and the slaves strained and tugged in unison.
On the same slope, and on no other, I go about the 1st of May for lupine, or sun-dial, which makes the ground look blue from a little distance; on the other or northern side of the slope, the arbutus, during the first half of April, perfumes the wildwood air. A few paces farther on, in the bottom of a little spring run, the mandrake shades the ground with its miniature umbrellas.
Old is the tree and the fruit good, Very old and thick the wood. Woodman, is your courage stout? Beware! the root is wrapped about Your mother's heart, your father's bones; And like the mandrake comes with groans. Four reformers met under a bramble-bush. They were all agreed the world must be changed. "We must abolish property," said one. "We must abolish marriage," said the second.
At first the flower is as green as the leaves, but finally turns a deep red-purple. It grows close to the branch and is solitary. =May-Apple= One of the most delicious wild fruits we have is the May-apple or mandrake. It is finely flavored, sweet and juicy, but being a laxative one must eat of it sparingly. It is most common in the Middle States and reaches perfection in Ohio.
But she would soon find out, and would keep near the bed till she felt confidence.... Oh yes they would be all right! The door-hasp shrieked like a mandrake as door-hasps do, in silence but waked no one, apparently. There was the kitchen-door at the end of the brick-paved lobby, letting through dawn's first decision about the beginning of the day.
The last great struggle is on, and it can no longer be conducted in the dark. In the course of my remarks I may be tempted to forget our present perils. I beg of you, if you hear any sounds that seem suspicious, to notify me instantly." "Pardon me," said Bleak, a little uneasily; "it was my intention to catch the 9.30 train for Mandrake Park."
Provided with these, he wrote to his mother as follows: "MANDRAKE, IOWA. "MY OWN DEAR MOTHER, I write to you instead of to father, as I suppose he must be somewhere on the river hunting for me by this time, though I have not seen him yet. "I am all right, and having a fine time, but have lost the raft.
For as, where the mandrake grows near the vine and so communicates something of its force thereto, the wine that is made of its grapes makes the sleep of those that drink it more refreshing; so doth the tempering poetry with the principles of philosophy and allaying their roughness with its fictions render the study of them more easy and the relish of them more grateful to young learners.
Why, there wasn't a nook or a corner that some fibre had not worked its way into; and when I gave the last wrench, each of them seemed to shriek like a mandrake, as it broke its hold and came away. There is nothing that happens, you know, which must not inevitably, and which does not actually, photograph itself in every conceivable aspect and in all dimensions.
Such means was at last discovered, or supposed to be so, in the mandrake, a plant which thenceforth became, as the following quotation proves, of inestimable value in female eyes. "And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
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