upas-tree

_I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree; _

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

In style and appearance it is the very antithesis of “the upas-tree,” upon which legendary lore cast unmerited responsibility.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

I permit so fair an existence to be blighted by the upas-tree of destiny under which I am doomed to languish?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

Such I believe to be the origin of the many fabulous stories that have passed from hand to hand, and from generation to generation, about the upas-tree of Java.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

To prove their absurdity, a friend of mine climbed up a upas-tree, and passed two hours in its branches, where he took his lunch and smoked a cigar.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson