"Mandrake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was one of the most interesting women he ever talked to," Jim continued inexorably, "and John Mandrake ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... slight difference, so that it may barely be distinguished as another : species. Another relative is our twin-leaf (Jeffersonia) of the Alleghany region alone: a second species has lately turned up in Mantchooria. A relative of this is Podophyllum, our mandrake, a common inhabitant of the Atlantic United States, but found nowhere else. There is one other species of it, and that is in the Himalayas. Here are four most peculiar genera of one family, each of a single species in the Atlantic ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... produces fruitfulness in women; but the commentators are by no means agreed as to its nature and its properties. The LXX. render it by Mandragoras, which has been understood by the most eminent ancient and modern theologians to mean the mandrake (Alraunwurzel) so famous in the history of witchcraft. In many instances the devils, strangely enough, receive Christian names; thus the familiar spirit of old Lizzie is afterwards called Kit, i.e., Christopher.] which spirit had given her such a blow on the head in the night ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold
... is the tree and the fruit good, Very old and thick the wood. Woodman, is your courage stout? Beware! the root is wrapped about Your mother's heart, your father's bones; And like the mandrake comes with groans. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson
... intoned hollowly. It was a cultured voice, and there was a refinement to his face that registered on Dave's mind even over the horror of the weapon. "The fools cannot hold the shell. But neither shall they delay its breaking. Dead you were, mandrake son, and dead you shall be again. But since the fault is only theirs, may no ill dreams ...
— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey
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