And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother, Leah.
These Ra gave to Sekhmet, bidding her to pound them, and when this was done he mixed the mandrakes with some of the blood of those whom Hathor had slain.
When the messengers appeared the majesty of Ra bade them bring a great number of mandrakes from Elephantine.
Therefore we live; though such a life wee have, As but so many mandrakes on his grave.
This," taking up a green vial, "contains the quintessence of mandrakes distilled in the alembic when Scorpio rules the hour.
I went on picking my mandrakes in the forest, and waited for you to send for La Corriveau.
Do you remember the peasant-woman who was gathering mandrakes when you passed with your Indian guides, and who gave you milk to refresh you on the way?
I saw that lady in the woods of St. Valier, when I was gathering mandrakes one summer day.
Many examples of human figures in the roots of Mandrakes have been known, and Aldrovandus tell us that he was presented with a Mandrake-root, in which the image was perfect.
Columella, in his directions for the site of gardens, says they may be formed where "The Mandrakes flowers Produce, whose root shows half a man, whose juice With madness strikes.
From the remotest antiquity the Mandrakes were reputed in the East to possess the property of removing sterility; hence Rachel's desire to obtain from Leah the plants that Reuben had found and given to his mother.
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Then the Majesty of Rā ordered that messengers should be sent to Abu, a town at the foot of the First Cataract, to fetch mandrakes (?
When the women slaves were bruising grain for making beer, the crushed mandrakes (?
Hathor came and drank the beer mixed with blood and mandrakes (?
Sir James Frazer's claim that the incident of the ass in a late Jewish story of Jacob and the mandrakes (op.
I shall refer to the possible bearing of this Egyptian idea upon the origin of the Hebrew word for mandrakes and the allusion to "a basket of figs" in the Book of Jeremiah.
Beneath the night-shade let the mandrakes grow-- Hide from my sight that Lazar-house of woe.
I prethee yet remember Millions are now in graves, which at last day Like mandrakes shall rise shreeking.
Donne writes: though such a life wee have As but so many mandrakes on his grave.
Now instead of a smell of Delight, our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture.
The same is also dubious from the different interpretations: for though the Septuagint and Josephus do render it the Apples of Mandrakes in this Text, yet in the other of the Canticles, the Chaldy Paraphrase termeth it Balsame.
Church inviting her beloved into the fields, among the delightfull fruits of Grapes and Pomegranates, it is said, The Mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits.
Petrus Hispanus, or Pope John the twentieth speaks more directly in his Thesaurus pauperum: wherein among the receits of fecundation, he experimentally commendeth the wine of Mandrakes given with Triphera magna.
We shall not omit the Mandrakes of Leah, according to the History of Genesis.
For first from the comparison of one Text with another, whether the Mandrakes here mentioned, be the same plant which holds that name with us, there is some cause to doubt.
To this last superstition there is direct reference made by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet: 'And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals hearing them run mad.
The dangers attending the plucking of mandrakesare shrewdly disposed of by Sir Thomas Browne with the remark that it is 'derogatory unto the Providence of God .
Many commentators and most dictionaries dispose of Reuben's mandrakes as something altogether different from the plant now known by the name; but there is really no warrant for such a conclusion.
The mandrakes were given to Sekti, a goddess of Heliopolis, to crush and grind up, and when this was done they were mixed with human blood, and put in a large brewing of beer which the women slaves had made from wheat.
Only the mandrakes stood stolidly in place, flicking each running man who passed them.
They lost a few mandrakes in prying loose some of the sun material, and more in getting a small sphere of it shaped.
The first were mandrakes in the uniform of the Satheri, all carrying weapons with evil-looking blades or sharp stickers.
The only remaining solution, apparently, was to raise a scaffolding over the whole planet to the sky, and send up mandrakes to weld back the broken pieces.
He dashed off, calling two of the mandrakes after him.
Squat mandrakeswere carrying off bodies toward a great fire that was burning in another square.
Mandrakes and mandrake-men, zombie-men, from the past and multiple revivals!
The mandrakes prodded Hanson down from the roc and toward the new building, then left at a wave of the Sather Karf's hand.
Reuben's standard had in its upper part the figure of a man, corresponding to the mandrakes that Reuben, forefather of this tribe, found, for this plant had the form of a manikin.
Reuben's stone was the ruby, that has the property, when grated by a woman and tasted by her, of promoting pregnancy, for it was Reuben who found the mandrakes which induce pregnancy.
Take care not to put your feet on them; you will get love sickness or thirst after wealth, and would be lost, because the passions inspired by mandrakes are unhappy.
I know; you reach it by the lane where mandrakes are to be found.
This pathway is somewhat dangerous, as it is lined by mandrakes which at night-time sing at the foot of the trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandrakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
