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““Hanzal” = coloquintida, an article often mentioned by”
“These Moors are changeable in their wills: fill thy purse with money: — the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
“The ground was covered with the coloquintida, a plant very common in every part of this desert.”
“-- Having prepared the gum water for the colours, add a little coloquintida.”
“An infusion of coloquintida, in the proportion of 15-1/2 grains Troy to a quart of water, is said to be a good preservative against moths.”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
“QUOTATION: The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
“These Moors are changeable in their wills; fill thy purse with money: the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
“It was chance, acting through the impulses of the War Office, which caused little Laurence to see the light on Irish soil; but though he was born in the melodiously named Valley of Honey, there was little of honeyed sweetness, and much bitterness as of gall and coloquintida, in his early boyhood.”
“The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”
“God put in a little coloquintida, which spoiled the whole mess.”
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chained_bear The colocynth. OED sez:
"The Bitter-apple (Citrullus Colocynthis), a widely-cultivated plant of the Gourd family, the fruit of which is about the size of an orange, and contains a light spongy and extremely bitter pulp, furnishing the well-known purgative drug. Also the fruit of this plant, and the drug prepared from it." Apr 10, 2008