daphne

• Create a t-shirt design and email it to me or Daphne; we'll post it here and turn the best one into a PoopReport t-shirt! daphne (3827) -- 01.14.2009 —  PoopReport.com
• Every now and then there came to them from the conservatory a faint, faint breath from a blossoming daphne, as though the delicate thing were breathing out sweet gratitude for its shelter from the storm Nan could not help responding to the quieting influence of it all. —  The Governess
• Taking a goodly shoot of the daphne, he peeled it with the knife, fitting it to his hand, {140} and the hot vapour of smoke arose. —  The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
• They therefore blended plant, daphne, and heroine's name, Daphne, and decided that the phrase 'Apollo pursues Daphne' meant that Apollo chased a nymph, Daphne, who, to escape his love, turned into a laurel. —  Modern Mythology
• Mannhardt shows that the laurel (daphne) was regarded as a plant which, like our rowan tree, averts evil influences. —  Modern Mythology

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