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  • Her full trousers, of black silk, were embroidered in a pattern of silver mandragoras, and as she moved forward with indolent grace, her little feet were seen to be shod with slippers made of the feathers of humming-birds.

    Herodias 2003

  • Et dixit ei, Numquid parum est quod abstuleris virum meum, ut auferas etiam mandragoras filii mei?

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • (Genesis xxx. 14) verbatim: "The _Encyclopædia Biblica_ says (s.v. 'Mandrakes'): 'The Hebrew name, _dūdā'im_, was no doubt popularly associated with _dōdīm_, [Hebrew: dodim]," love "; but its real etymology (like that of [Greek: mandragoras]) is obscure".

    The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

  • It is no doubt, to these mandragoras that an old chronicler alludes in the following strophe:

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

  • It follows a mostly useless battle against 30 mandragoras who are killed in 1 to 2 hits by any level 75 melee, or wiped out en masse by anyone with damaging area-of-effect attacks, like a Black Mage.

    1UP RSS feed 2009

  • It follows a mostly useless battle against 30 mandragoras who are killed in 1 to 2 hits by any level 75 melee, or wiped out en masse by anyone with damaging area-of-effect attacks, like a Black Mage.

    1UP RSS feed 2009

  • _dūdā'im_ by [Greek: mandragoras] and the Copts did not use the word [Coptic: jiji] in their translations, but either the Greek word or

    The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

  • * ho mandragoras tous anthropous koimizei: [1836] 1

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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