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Massive clearing efforts to harvest yews because of their medicinal properties -- the bark can be harvested for the cancer drug taxol -- plus the danger of disease are prompting horticulturalists to preserve the yew's DNA, the newspaper reported.
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Ef yew spects ter fool dis chile wiv any dem lime-juice yarns, 'bout lanterns 'n boats at night-time, yew's' way off. "
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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Near some lone fane or yew's funereal green, "etc. -- _Elegy IV_.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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