upas-tree

• “_I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree; _”

  Wings in the Night

• “In style and appearance it is the very antithesis of “the upas-tree,” upon which legendary lore cast unmerited responsibility.”

  The Confessions of a Beachcomber

• “I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;”

  The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian

• “I permit so fair an existence to be blighted by the upas-tree of destiny under which I am doomed to languish?”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847

• “Such I believe to be the origin of the many fabulous stories that have passed from hand to hand, and from generation to generation, about the upas-tree of Java.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “To prove their absurdity, a friend of mine climbed up a upas-tree, and passed two hours in its branches, where he took his lunch and smoked a cigar.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “Before quitting Java, I must say a word about the far-famed upas-tree.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “-- "Certainly we don't profess to keep a dying man alive upon the juice of the deadly upas-tree.”

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

• “These are as welcome as the brightness of newly minted coin to the eye which, in consulting grammar after grammar, has been condemned to meet under corresponding rules always the same examples, till they begin to produce that effect upon the nerves which all have experienced at the mention of the deadly upas-tree, or the imminence of the dissolution of the Union.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

• “As the upas-tree was said to blight all the country round it, so do these disagreeable folk prejudicially affect the whole surrounding moral atmosphere.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862

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