"Nightshade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not strange!" remarked the Nightshade, who had sprung up in the shadow of the hedge, "she carries with her, everywhere she goes, the atmosphere of the place whence she comes. Do ...
— Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing • T. S. Arthur
... colonists have very inappropriately bestowed the name Kangaroo-apple, while in literal scientific translation it ought to be called Bird's Nightshade, because Captain Cook's companions observed in New Zealand that birds were feeding on ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... of her atoms, and 60 Resolve back to her elements, and take The shape of any reptile save myself, And make a world for myriads of new worms! This knife! now let me prove if it will sever This withered slip of Nature's nightshade—my Vile form—from the creation, as it hath The green bough ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron |
