You giveupas juice in haemoptysis--what's the dose?
A specimen of the Upas tree has been recently brought to the United States by an officer of the navy, and it is alleged that while it does not poison the atmosphere, its sap is quite as fatal to life as its effluvia has been represented to be.
All the legends of the upas tree are based on an account of it by a Dr.
The Peradeniya curator pointed out that Java was a volcanic island, and one valley where the upas flourishes is certainly fatal to all animal life owing to the emanations of carbonic acid gas escaping from fissures in the soil.
This was the ill-famed upas tree of Java, the subject of so many ridiculous legends.
The curator told me that the upas (Antiaris toxicaria) was unquestionably intensely poisonous, juice and bark alike.
There is a tree that grows in the tropics which they call the upas tree.
To-day we lie under the upas tree--would that we were awake!
It was Kapitein Van Slyck who planned the deed, and Cho Seng who committed the act, pricked him with a upas thorn while he slept, as I told your excellency.
Within two weeks he was poisoned by being pricked as he slept with a thorn dipped in the juice of the deadly upas tree.
But the fact is, the upas tree is merely a tree with poisonous secretions, and in no way affects the atmosphere of the locality where it lives.
But to the professional man, who is not familiar with the habits of the hen, and whose mind does not naturally and instinctively turn henward, I would say: Shun her as you would the deadly upas tree of Piscataquis county, Me.
The hydra-headed upastree and bete noir of self-acting progress, is such ignorance as that, lurking in the very shadow of magnificent educational institutions and hard words of great cast.
He did not want to pursue the subject any further, and John graciously turned the conversation by announcing the discovery of the Upas tree.
I didn't know the Upas tree was of such immense size," said Harry.
In the session of 1873 Mr. Gladstone endeavored to further his plans for Reform, and consequently vigorously attacked the third branch of the "upas tree," to which he had referred.
The upas does not grow as a gregarious tree, and is nowhere found in numbers.
But of dying there was no danger, as the poison of the upas does not kill, when only inhaled as a vapour; unless the inhalation be a long time continued.
Because you weren't walking about with a man, you know, but with a Upas tree.
You may as well tell Helen that you wounded your lip on a branch of her Upas tree.
All the Malayans consider this tree as an holy instrument of the great prophet to punish the sins of mankind, and, therefore, to die of the poison of the Upas is generally considered among them as an honourable death.
Of course if theUpas tree could be uprooted and banished from our midst,--if with a wave of his magic wand some sorcerer could make it disappear, so much the better.
But after all supposing that you can transform your Upas tree into a fruit-bearing one, will not this be even better than to cut it down?
And God will yet enable us to graft into this wretched and apparently worthless Upas stock, a bud which in coming years shall be loaded with fruit that shall be the marvel of the world.
She dropped asleep again, but only to be aroused by a soft tread that stole through her room, and the breath of some person bending downward, which made her shudder, as if it had been the poison of a upas tree floating across her mouth.
As she spoke Agnes bent over the helpless woman, and shed her glances over that pale face, as the upas tree weeps poison.
In two sessions two branches of the upas tree had been summarily cut off.
From these experiments I have been convinced that the gum of the Upas is the most dangerous and most violent of all vegetable poisons; and I am apt to believe that it greatly contributes to the unhealthiness of that island.
After sentence is pronounced upon them by the judge, they are asked in court, whether they will die by the hands of the executioner, or whether they will go to the Upas tree for a box of poison?
The four lines at the end of the plant Upasare imitated from Dr.
Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath Fell UPAS sits, the HYDRA-TREE of death.
The barb is dipped in a mixture, of which the chief ingredient is the sap of the upas tree; and, to increase its virulence, lime-juice is sometimes added.
By-the-bye, I discovered that the deadly qualities of the upas tree are very much exaggerated.
One of the experiments to be related below was made with the upas prepared by myself.
The upas appears to affect quadrupeds with nearly equal force, proportionate in some degree to their size and disposition.
The most powerful is called upas raja, and its effects are considered as incurable; the other kinds are distributed among the soldiers on going to war.
We see spicy cinnamon, the chinchona, the upas tree, the latter bearing to a great height its lofty head, not unlike a palm in growth, with its bark gray and spotted like a snake.
The business portion of the city is substantially built, but we were told that the use of opium, like the Upas tree, casts a blight on this fair country and its inhabitants.
They are deadly weapons, for the dart is a very thin piece of reed or cane, which has been dipped in the Upas poison (Antiaris toxicaria).
Criminals condemned to die were offered the chance of life if they would go to the Upas tree and collect some of the poison.
The Antiaris alluded to above is the famous Upas tree of Java.
As an antidote to the so-called "piety" founded upon the scrupulous observance of the law, which had become a very Upas tree of self-complacency.
The celebrated Upastree of Java (Antiaris toxicaria) which has been the subject of so many romances, exploded by Dr.
XIII Probably he was not personally a Upas tree, probably the rancor toward him left from being bawled after by one of his gatemen at a turning we had taken in his enclosure, "That's a private path!
He had also built a magnificent hospital for them, and it seemed rather hard, then, to hear that one of the humblest of them had been known to speak of him in whispered confidence as a "Upas tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
