"Mandrake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taken, Simples Poppy, nymphea, lettuce, roses, purslane, henbane, mandrake, nightshade, opium, &c. or Compounds. Liquid, as syrups of poppy, verbasco, violets, roses. Solid, as requies Nicholai, Philonium, Romanum, Laudanum Paracelsi. or Outwardly used, as Oil of nymphea, poppy, violets, roses, mandrake, nutmegs. Odoraments of vinegar, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... down the street. Otto uttered a cry like the shriek of an uprooted mandrake. His hand was upon the ring to turn it for the third time; but the stranger's warning occurred to him, and for a moment he forbore. In that moment the entire vision vanished ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... the groan of a mandrake," he continued: "they do ever lament and bewail thus when gathered. I doubt not but this tree is of ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... keep them alive, etc. At length he said: "Pa says I can't go unless I take Sukey on behine me. I'd a heap rather walk than go in that poor folks' way. Mandy Bradshaw ud be sure to see us, an' she'd turn up her nose higher'n she did when I rolled the mandrake-apple ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various
... Explosions have in them something dread, and as it were mad and magical: which indeed Life always secretly has; thus the dumb Earth (says Fable), if you pull her mandrake-roots, will give a daemonic mad-making moan. These Explosions and Revolts ripen, break forth like dumb dread Forces of Nature; and yet they are Men's forces; and yet we are part of them: the Daemonic that is in man's life has burst out on us, will sweep us too away!—One day here ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle |
