sarsa

MM, the first time i brought home Lechong Cebu to my Northern-bred mom and tita, they loudly complained that I forgot the "sarsa".

Market Manila 2008

He was, as he had wished to be, at the center of the media world for a time, but was soon superceded when the news went out that Purity, the sarsa-flower slave at the Prudent Greenhouse, had finally wasted away to nothing and died.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The Breeders had created the symbiosis in the first place; the sarsa fed on its human slave in such a way that it numbed the slave to any idea of any other life.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

She would be on display the whole time, like the sarsa-flower-slave.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Figg liked the restaurant but feared it was becoming outre, the result of a fame mostly due to the fragile beauty of the sarsa slave, whose name was Purity.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Purity had traveled here from the Breeder Planet, as had the sarsa-flower.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Sade ogled the bloom slave, bound to the sarsa plant by long, white tendrils.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

She was wrapped around a stalk of the sarsa flower, its lower leaves draped lovingly over her dark skin.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

The restaurant had a sarsa flower with its own bloom slave as the centerpiece of the garden, which was in turn the central fixture of the restaurant's main dining room.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

A decoction of the twigs of that tree cured the gardener, as he assured us, of an obstinate pain in both shoulders that no other medicine would touch; which testimony in its favour made us look with an added interest on the cordate leaf, and small white verbena-looking flower, of certainly the first, and in all probability the last, _Smilax sarsa_ we should ever see _growing_.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various