"Smilax" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... llianas choked up the path, and the hunters had to clear every step of the way with their machetes. Even the dogs, with all their eagerness, could make only a slow and tortuous advance among the thorny vines of the smilax, and the sharp spines that covered the ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid
... Smilax sagittifera; Heer, Plate 30 Figure 7. Size 1/2 diameter. a. Leaf. b. Flower magnified, one of the six petals wanting at d. Upper Miocene, Oeningen. c. Smilax obtusifolia; Heer, Plate 30 Figure 9; natural size. ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... of her favorite Blood Purifier instead of the customary one which she took before a meal; and, as a consequence, on her arrival at the scene of festivities was with difficulty dissuaded from snatching down the Southern smilax and other decorations that she might twine with them a wreath to crown herself. She somehow had got the idea that she was the queen emeritus of the May. It was reported about town afterward that she tried to do the giant swing on the parlor chandelier. But this was a gross exaggeration; she ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... is larger than P. smilax, but resembles it extremely in its upper side. The underside, however, is different, as the extremity of the upper wings and the whole of the under wings are of a fawn colour. The underside of the lower wings is also sprinkled with some grey atoms, and marked obscurely ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King
... arrange the salad on a dish that will stand in a small tub or kid. Fill this with ice, place the dish on top, pin a napkin or towel around the tub to hide it from view. Flowers, smilax, etc., may be pinned on this, which produce a very ...
— Fifty Salads • Thomas Jefferson Murrey
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