Among them the durion is the most esteemed by the natives, and the mangosteen by Europeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

The durion is a forest tree of the loftiest order, bearing resemblance to the elm, only with a smooth bark, which is also scaly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

It would not perhaps be correct to say that the durion is the best of all fruits, because it cannot supply the place of a sub-acid juicy kind; such as the orange, grape, mango, and mangosteen, whose refreshing and cooling qualities are so wholesome and grateful; but as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour, it is unsurpassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

Every village consists of such houses as I have described before, grouped, but not by any means closely, under the shade of cocoa-palms, jak, durion, bread-fruit, mango, nutmeg, and other fruit-trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang — a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

Murtagh to drag them off, and deposit them close to the durion-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

So stood the little party under the tall durion-tree, regarding the ascent of Saloo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The large durion-tree under which they had first encamped was well furnished with fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

It is true the durion stood near, and its fruit would for a time keep them from starving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The durion grows to the size of a man's head, and is covered closely with hard, sharp spines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference

Having selected three or four of these, he chopped them down, and dragged them up to the durion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

As we have said, Saloo did not think any more of ascending the durion-tree, nor they of asking him to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

For all this, they were no little surprised and somewhat incredulous when he declared his intention of climbing the great durion-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

Now they saw it, and now they did not see it; for whatever it was, it was sunk inside the trunk of the durion-tree, alternately protruding and drawing back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

Both the natives of the Malayan Archipelago and strangers residing there regard the durion as superior to all other kinds of fruit -- in short, the finest in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

Throwing down his bundle of creepers, Saloo now took up one of the pointed pegs, and, standing by the trunk of the durion, drove it into the soft sapwood, a little above the height of his own head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The next thing to be exhausted was the upright piece, which, being only about thirty feet in length, and requiring a surplus to be left, of course came far short of reaching to the lowest limbs of the durion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

In a space of time that did not in all exceed twenty minutes, he had got up to within ten or twelve feet of the lower branches of the durion -- to such a height as caused those looking at him from below to feel giddy as they gazed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

It did not appear to be among the branches of the durion, but as if in the trunk of the tree; and in the interval of silence that succeeded his first quick exclamation, they could hear a hissing sound, such as might proceed from the throat of a goose when some stranger intrudes upon the domain of the farmyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

The Malay, seemingly satisfied with his triumph, now glided underneath the durion, and keeping his eye turned upward, as if intently watching something, he struck the fruit with the piece of pointed stick which he had been using in the search after Singapore oysters, and sent it spinning out upon the open sand beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang – a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference

The durion grows to the size of a man’s head, and is covered closely with hard, sharp spines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

There were many more nuts on the durion-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

"The durion is however sometimes dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castaways] Reference

It is intensely tropical; there are mangrove swamps, and fringes of cocoa-palms, and banana-groves, date, sago, and travelers 'palms, tree-ferns, india-rubber, mango, custard-apple, jack-fruit, durion, lime, pomegranate, pine-apples, and orchids, and all kinds of strangling and parrot-blossomed trailers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference

It is intensely tropical; there are mangrove swamps, and fringes of cocoa-palms, and banana-groves, date, sago, and travelers’ palms, tree-ferns, india-rubber, mango, custard-apple, jack-fruit, durion, lime, pomegranate, pine-apples, and orchids, and all kinds of strangling and parrot-blossomed trailers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

We were driven one day, by the major and Miss Studer, some ten or twelve miles in the interior, passing through groves of cocoa and betel-nut trees, both in full bearing, to a tapioca plantation, where we saw many trees and plants new to us -- the fan and sago palms and many other varieties, bananas, nutmeg trees, bread fruit, durion, gutta-percha trees and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the World] Reference