In May the prickly carex blossoms among the tussocks, and the calamus buds burst forth among their flat, green blades.
Here are calamus patches, and alder thickets, and sedges without number; and the prickly carex and blue-flag abound on every side.
The well-known Malacca canes are obtained from Calamus Scipionum, the stems of which are much stouter than is the case with the average species of Calamus.
Two examples of Calamus verus, measuring respectively two hundred and seventy feet and two hundred and thirty feet, were exhibited in the Paris exhibition of 1855.
I done laid in some calamus root, en I ain't gwineter take no skuse,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
Calamus needs clear ideas; it may be easily, innocently distorted from its natural, its motive, body of doctrine.
You will be writing something aboutCalamus some day," said W.
It tells how much Leaves of Grass, and especially the Calamus section, had helped the writer.
The chief point in it is that the writer hopes he has not been importunate in the question he had asked about Calamus three years before.
You will see that he harps on the Calamus poems again.
He will not let me buy a bit of candied calamus unless the boy is under ten, he is so afraid I shall be looked at.
Julius and Joe and the old Pepper Pot woman, and the Calamus boys?
And then one can run around with Patty and tease the boys who sell pink calamus buds, and buy 'Peppery pot, smoking hot.
The most remarkable are the ratans, belonging to the Calamus genus of palms.
Ezekiel enumerates amongst the Indian imports of Tyre "bright iron, calamus and cassia.
Calamus Australis, a plant which Kennedy now saw for the first time.
Calamus aromaticus of Roman authors, and probably the sweet calamus and sweet cane of Scripture, but not the fragrant lemon-grass of India: a genus of palms whose stems make canes or rattans: the reed pen used by the ancients in writing.
Originally the calamus grew in a limited area and was difficult to obtain.
The outside of the raw calamus is smooth and is made into commercial cane used for chairs.
The net still smelled of the Calamus root after being in the water more than twelve hours, and he caught 121 white fish in one pull of the net in Flambeau Lake.
Two little brown creatures, humped on the edge of a plank, washing calamus in moonlit water!
Here in the wide reaches of calamus and reeds, where the brackish tide comes in, the marsh-wrens build by hundreds.
Dedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; Bright iron, and cassia, and calamus were among thy merchandise.
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
Calamus spioris petiolorum uncialibus verticillatis occurs in abundance in all the damp jungle.
After diverging from this road we passed through some low jungle, which is always characterised by Calamus Zalaccoideus; and then after traversing for a short time some rather higher ground, came on the tea.
Our first reliable information of Calamus is from Plinius, who received specimens from the country about the Black Sea and who described it under the name of Acorus calamus.
Pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh And calamus therein.
At the present time Calamus is no longer extensively employed in medicine.
There is no doubt that some reedlike plant in many respects similar if not identical with calamus was used by the ancient Egyptians in the preparation of incense as recorded in the papyri of Ebers.
Calamus is, or has been, used in flavoring beer and gin.
Sega is a species of rattan (Calamus viminalis orCalamus ornatus, Griff.
This," she explained, "is some calamus root that I raised and dried myself, and I hope it comes in handy whenever you ladies need something for the indigestion.
For indigestion and shortness of the breath we chewed calamus root or drank tea made from it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calamus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
