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There is a plant called the atropa belladonna, a very poisonous shrub, which is rare in this country, but Ambrosia obtained one and planted it beside the little stream which runs by the ruined house.
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria Charles A. Gunnison 1879
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We started to cross the hollow, passing the atropa, which was just sending out its early shoots.
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria Charles A. Gunnison 1879
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As I drew nearer I noticed for the first time that it was not the common nightshade, which grew wild about the country, but was the atropa, a plant not indigenous to California.
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria Charles A. Gunnison 1879
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In this confection was the smallest quantity of the extract of the poisonous atropa, and some Chinese drug unknown to me, the taking of which in time became a necessity of my being, but not till to-night did I know the contents of these drops or the awful power to which I am a slave.
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria Charles A. Gunnison 1879
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The variety differs from deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna) which is highly toxic, but rare in New Zealand.
unknown title 2009
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Lots system of a down tabs be atropa wars at synchrocyclotron for the few raceabout of neurobiological ceramist, diffusing apomorphine bullhorn.
POWET.TV 2009
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They’d done well with their research: Even Claudia had found out that dwaleberry was another name for deadly nightshade, or atropa belladonna.
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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As I sat down to enjoy the picture, I became aware of some one walking behind the great clumps of nightshade, and presently a young woman stepped from behind the atropa where Madre Moreno had that morning been picking the poisonous leaves, and walked across the hollow, stepping gracefully from stone to stone till she came to the bright spot where the sun was shining, and seating herself at the foot of the wall, opened
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria Charles A. Gunnison 1879
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(_atropa mandragora_) combines in itself all the circumstances and traditions required for the Dudaim, has given to the current interpretation, its present prevalence.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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