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Linnæus, but without sufficient reason, for Pliny says it resembles the savine; and Matthiolus, in his _Commentary on Dioscorides_, when speaking of the savine (Juniperus Sabina), says: --
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On the most barren parts of these hills, there springs a tree which the Indians call guisachel; it resembles the savine, and produces a berry of which ink is made.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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On the most barren parts of these hills, there springs a tree which the Indians call _guisachel_; it resembles the savine, and produces a berry of which ink is made.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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Temple of the Devil, near the town of Altorf in Franconia, at the foot of a mountain covered with pine and savine, in which are found large coals resembling trees of ebony; which are so far mineralized as to be heavy and compact; and so to effloresce with pyrites in some parts as to crumble to pieces; yet from other parts white ashes are produced on calcination, from which _fixed alcali_ is procured; which evinces their vegetable origin.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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a small savine in the dooryard that stood where Kate wanted to set
A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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_Sabin_, or, as we call it, savine, not for dignity to be nam’d with the former; but for its being absolutely the best _Succedaneum_ to cypress,
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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