"Arrow wood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... awoke on the morrow, they found that their beards had turned black, nor did any who had eaten of the young Rukh grow gray ever after. Some said the cause of the return of youth to them and the ceasing of hoariness from them was that they had heated the pot with arrow wood, whilst others would have it that it came of eating the Rukh chick's flesh; and this is indeed a wonder of wonders.[FN177] And ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton |
