"Bryony" Quotes from Famous Books
... food poisoning, cantharides. 1. Irritant { Vegetable—all strong purgatives, hellebores, savin, { yew, ergot, hemlock, laburnum, bryony, etc. ... — Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson
... cut it does not reach higher than four or five feet; when it springs from a deep, hollow corner, or with bushes to draw it up, you can hardly touch its tip with your walking-stick. The leaders of the black bryony, lifting themselves above the bushes, and having just there nothing to cling to, twist around each other, and two bines thus find mutual support where one alone would ... — Round About a Great Estate • Richard Jefferies |