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The four lines at the end of the plant Upas are imitated from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts. The line in the episode adjoined to Cassia, "The salt tear mingling with the milk he sips," is from an interesting and humane passage in Langhorne's Justice of Peace. There are probably many others, which, if I could recollect them, should here be acknowledged.
Whisky, that makes you shoot at landlords and not hit them! Even so, my dear Roger, your enthusiasm makes you shoot at truth and never come anywhere near it." "Jerry," said Roger, "you are a upas tree. Your shadow is poisonous!" "Well, gentlemen," said Mr. Chapman, "I know Mrs. Mifflin wants to be relieved of her post. I vote we adjourn early.
I laughed aloud "Come, come, my dear sir, you are a perfect Lord Castlereagh in the congruity of your figures. How the deuce can any living thing exist among the poisonous branches of the Upas tree or a wild duck build" "Get along with your criticism, Tom and don't laugh, hang it, don't laugh but who told you that a corbie cannot?" "Why there are no corbies in Java."
We cleared the weedy patch beautifully, scraping off all the nasty weeds and leaving the nice clean brown dirt. We worked as hard as ever we could. We had just done, and we were looking at the beautiful production of our honest labour, when the cottage door burst open, and the soldier's widowed mother came out like a wild tornado, and her eyes looked like upas trees death to the beholder.
I down every one who dares stand in my way; or I use them as stepping-stones. There! Isn't that a worse Upas tree than poor old Ronnie's? Mine is a life untouched by love, or any gentler feelings. All that sort of thing was killed in me when I was quite a little chap. It is the story of a broken halo. Perhaps I'll tell it you some day.
Under a tree whose shade seemed so inviting, who would have suspected that danger was lurking, much less that death dwelt among its leaves and branches? The first had actually arisen, and the last had been very near. But it was now far away, or at least no longer to be dreaded from the poison of the upas.
One may hope, in spite of the metaphorists, to avoid the breath of the deadly upas tree; one may, by great good fortune, succeed in blacking the eye of the basilisk; one might even dodge the attentions of Cerberus and Argus, but no man, alive or dead, can escape the gaze of the Rubberer. New York is the Caoutchouc City.
At last he said, smiling frankly, "You great London practitioners have so many new medicines: may I ask what Rhus toxico toxico " "Dendron." "Is?" "The juice of the upas, vulgarly called the poison-tree." Dr. Dosewell started. "Upas poison-tree little birds that come under the shade fall down dead! You give upas juice in these desperate cases: what's the dose?" Dr.
That it was to be made on foot did not dismay them, they had quite recovered from the effects of their sea-suffering, as also from the poisonous breath of the upas, and felt strong enough to undertake any great feat of pedestrianism. And, as they were under no limits as to time, they could adopt such a rate of speed as the nature of the paths would permit.
'The beech, I thought, 'is a good tree to sleep under, for nothing will grow there, and there is always dry beech-mast; the yew would be good if it did not grow so low, but, all in all, pine-trees are the best. I also considered that the worst tree to sleep under would be the upas tree. These thoughts so nearly bordered on nothing that, though I was not sleepy, yet I fell asleep.
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