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In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.
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We figure to ourselvesThe thing we like; and then we build it up,As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,—For thought is tired of wandering o’er the world,And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

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— Act I, sc. 5.

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Light up, light upAs if you have a choiceEven if you cannot hear my voiceI'll be right beside you dear

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— Run

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Dear Reader, if you chance to catch a sight Of upAs Trees, betake yourself to flight.


— Hilaire Belloc. A Moral Alphabet: U for Upas Tree

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The harmony of things, – this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upAs, this all-blasting tree, Whose root is earth, whose leaves and branches be


— Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth, 1126-1134

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On the blasted heath Fell upAs sits, the hydra-tree of death.


— Erasmus Darwin, "Loves of the Plants". In E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897, [Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.] (1898), iii. 233.

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Farther on, there frowned a grove of blended banian boughs, thick-ranked manchineels, and many a upAs; their summits gilded by the sun; but below, deep shadows, darkening night-shade ferns, and mandrakes.


— Herman Melville, Mardi. Mardi Volume II Chapter III

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"Jerry," said Roger, "You are a upAs tree. Your shadow is poisonous!"

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— Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop.

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the juices of these plants have been mixed with the poisonous pitch of the upAs tree.


— Fyodor Sologub, "The Poisonous Garden"

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I fear my upAs roots have led me out of bounds.


— John Boyle O'Reilly, The Upas Tree

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If you... go on killing everyone you meet till people begin to think you're first cousin to an upAs tree, naturally you're found out in the end.


— Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (1927).

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"What's the tree I read about somewhere that does you in if you sit under it?", to which Jeeves replies, "The upAs tree, sir." Bertie rejoins, "She's a female upAs tree. It's not safe to come near her."


— P. G. Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

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sun had set upon him; that the billows had rolled over him; that the car of Juggernaut had crushed him, and also that the deadly upAs tree of Java had blighted him.


— Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit. Chapter 32.

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