"Frize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... truth, not a "palmetto," though a plant of kindred genus. It is a yucca of a species peculiar to the high table plains of Northern and Central Mexico, with long sword-shaped leaves springing aloe-like from a core in the centre, and radiating in all directions, so as to form a spherical chevaux-de-frize. Its top stands nearly six feet above the surface of the ground, and high over the artemisias; while its dark, rigid spikes, contrasted with the frosted foliage of the sage, render it a conspicuous landmark that can be seen far off ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid
... I hope it not be any intrusion; par dieu, I will not frize dat Jantemon a la mode Paris no more, becase ...
— The Politician Out-Witted • Samuel Low |
