UpAs Quotes
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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.
henry taylor— Act I, sc. 5.
Light up, light upAs if you have a choiceEven if you cannot hear my voiceI'll be right beside you dear
snow patrol— Run
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
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
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.
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
"Jerry," said Roger, "You are a upAs tree. Your shadow is poisonous!"
christopher morley— Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop.
the juices of these plants have been mixed with the poisonous pitch of the upAs tree.
— Fyodor Sologub, "The Poisonous Garden"
I fear my upAs roots have led me out of bounds.
— John Boyle O'Reilly, The Upas Tree
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).
"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)
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.
