Upas

[Illustration: Extracting poison from the "Upas" tree.

My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

[Illustration: A branch of the poison-tree "Upas".

My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

For 25 cents I would pick it up every Tuesday afternoon at the drug store at 30th and Upas.

George Mitrovich: You Are What You Read George Mitrovich 2010

For 25 cents I would pick it up every Tuesday afternoon at the drug store at 30th and Upas.

George Mitrovich: You Are What You Read George Mitrovich 2010

Upas-shadow which has blighted the whole Romish Church, blighted him also.

Westward Ho! 2007

He was come to raze to its very foundations the strong-hold of the Philistine, and to pluck up the roots of the dreary, withering Upas-tree of ignorance, whose poisonous exhalations had blighted the fair flower of the faith in its bud.

The Biblicals 2007

He often informed Mrs Todgers that the sun had set upon him; that the billows had rolled over him; that the car of Juggernaut had crushed him, and also that the deadly Upas tree of Java had blighted him.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

An elegant quiver, beautifully painted and embroidered, was slung across his back, with a dozen of the finest arrows, tipped with steel of Damascus, formed of the branches of the famous Upas-tree of Java, and feathered with the wings of the ortolan.

Burlesques 2006

An elegant quiver, beautifully painted and embroidered, was slung across his back, with a dozen of the finest arrows, tipped with steel of Damascus, formed of the branches of the famous Upas-tree of Java, and feathered with the wings of the ortolan.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

Where the fat black serpents drowse I gather the Upas blooms.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005