It was old jerked beef, croton coffee, and sour bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

The hacks accumulate like croton-bugs about a kitchen sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

'Try not to forget,' she said acidly, 'the croton in the spare bedroom.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

He made his way slowly through the croton bushes and round the clubhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Take croton oil, twelve drops (minims); oil of almonds, four troy grains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

And hibiscus, orchid, and croton plants brightened every corner of the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel’s Grace] Reference

One drop of croton oil on a bit of sugar may be placed on the back of the tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

Take croton oil, aqua ammonia, f. f.f; oil of cajuput, oil of origanum, in equal parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference

In 1845, eight cases of croton oil and six cases of the seed were exported from Ceylon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The croton grows to a height of 8 to 10 feet in a warm climate, but does not transplant well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing the forests and the trees links] Reference

South America and Asia, is purgative and emetic, and analagous in its properties to croton oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

This oil seems fitted to compete in utility with the far more costly and less agreeable oil of the croton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico: Mexico Living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

With equal energy he had built the mansion at Hanakai, personally placing the croton bushes and the hibiscus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

Nor were there any conspicuous flowers: neither frangipani, nor hibiscus, nor bright croton, nor colorful orchids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Mexico City, México D.F. Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - June 1999] Reference

This chamber remained empty for three or four days, and was then again refilled with fresh millet and apple and croton seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

There are few drawbacks to the croton, however there may be some staining from latex sap, and a low level toxicity to mammals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico] Reference

Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana .... read more flora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing the forests and the trees links] Reference

So Blood Woman fooled her father by filling a bowl with the red sap of the croton tree, which congealed to look like a bloody heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus]

The only two which exceed it are castor oil, which is 960, about, and croton oil, which is very similar to this, 942 to 943 (A.H. Allen).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

The croton bugs have longer wings and they sometimes fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

He examined Germinie, and ordered the application of croton oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germinie Lacerteux] Reference

The bowels should be thoroughly opened by calomel, croton oil, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Will your castor oil, an 'your calomel, an' your croton, do that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference

Mauvezin tells of the ingestion of three drams of croton oil by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

We call it the croton bug, but it is not a bug at all, it is a cockroach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insect Folk] Reference

The walls of the rooms were covered with ferns, orchids, and croton leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conqueror] Reference

Moreover, croton oil is a drastic cathartic, and waits on no man's convenience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion of Petra] Reference

Then C. said to himself: 'I don't think he'll come again; he has got two drops of the croton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha] Reference

There were pine-apples, cabbages, cocoa-nut and bread-fruit trees, bright croton bushes and highly scented shrubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference

A gloomy vegetation of cactus, Jatropha gossypifolia, croton and mimosa covers the barren declivity of Cerro de la Popa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

To every one who is not, my advice is that he should go into the verandah in the spring and look among the leaves of the croton plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference