night-shade

Deborah and I talked about onions, Hmong refugees, black night-shade, potatoes, theater, and women in anthropology.

If You’re Just Joining Us: Interview with Nutritional Anthropologist, Deborah Duchon, from Good Eats maryrobinette 2008

But the night-shade sat deeply on the mountains beyond, and their indented outline alone could be faintly traced on the horizon, where a red streak yet glimmered in the west.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

They did so; but, soon, the sounds floated gradually away into distance, and all was again still; they seemed to have sunk among the woods, whose tufted tops were visible upon the clear horizon, while every other feature of the scene was involved in the night-shade, which, however, allowed the eye an indistinct view of some objects in the garden below.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Thus passed the hour in watchfulness and solemn thought; but no sounds returned; and, after remaining at the casement, till the light tint of dawn began to edge the mountain-tops and steal upon the night-shade, she concluded, that they would not return, and retired reluctantly to repose.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

-- The tomato belongs to the night-shade family, and for this reason was long looked upon with suspicion.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

We are also told that "wood night-shade, or bitter-sweet, being hung about the neck of Cattell that have the Staggers, helpeth them."

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

Hume, in the narrowness of a so-called philosophical indifference to the appeals of domestic life and the details of national theology and art, gives us only a running commentary upon mere chronological events, galvanized by the touch of his keen intellect and fine rhetoric into a deceitful vigor, and ornamented with the poisonous night-shade blossoms of a spurious philosophy.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

Mountain parsley, wolves-bane, leaves of the poplar, and soot were frequently used in the preparation of witch ointment; and so were yellow water-cresses, the blood of a mouse, night-shade, oil, etc.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

We flung ourselves down in the bunch-grass that whispered dryly in a cool wind fresh from the creeping night-shade.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

Ezra looked so like a wandering night-shade, so tall, wet and thin, that

Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912