thorn-apple

The only distraction I could possibly find was in the windows of the passenger trains, and in the vile vodka which the Jews drugged with thorn-apple.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

But such is the strangeness of fate that, the moment he had given up the hunt as utterly useless, he saw a large plump rabbit sitting quietly under a thorn-apple tree, making of itself a perfect target.

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000

But such is the strangeness of fate that, the moment he had given up the hunt as utterly useless, he saw a large plump rabbit sitting quietly under a thorn-apple tree, making of itself a perfect target.

Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000

"Jondalar, while you get my basket, I'm going to get some of that thorn-apple I saw on the way here," she said, reaching the entry in a few strides.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

The members of the Mammoth Hearth she had met called the unpleasant-smelling plant thorn-apple, because of its spiny green fruit, but it brought back memories from her childhood.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

"She is sensible; she bears the result of her own theories before imposing their practice upon others; but," and he went back to the thorn-apple voice, "do you expect to take care of my sister by the aid of this to-night?"

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

It is the first ramble I have had at this season for years, and I thought of the many quiet places in the thick woods of the old homestead, where long ago I hunted for hickory-nuts and walnuts; then of its hazel thickets, through which were scattered the wild plum, black-haw, and thorn-apple -- perfect solitudes, in which the squirrels and birds had the happiest of times.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

The trees are much like a thorn-apple, -- low, spreading, twiggy, thorny; but the pink-white large fragrant flowers are very different.

The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

_ Some of these have split up into two or three subdivisions, as, for instance, the Pathar (stone) Panwars, the Pandhre or white Panwars and the Dhatura or thorn-apple Panwars; and members of these different groups may intermarry.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894