(presented to the Royal Society), upon the effects of similar experiments made with what he terms the upas antiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

The word 'upas,' in the language of the natives, means poison, and there is in the island a valley called the upas, or poison, valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

The laburnum, with its golden rain, is potentially a kind of upas tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

'upas' tree -- sulphurous fumes attend final stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference

The upas was the tree she really meant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Whom the Trees Loved] Reference

We have in this country a upas tree named the liquor traffic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference

I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Coleridge was taken up with this matter of the poisonous upas tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON] Reference

Before quitting Java, I must say a word about the far-famed upas-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

But the upas played no part, though the juice of the tree is poisonous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Mays remarks that the upas tree was a favourite image of C's from schooldays on, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annotations] Reference

The deadly upas, root and branch, leaf and fibre, body and sap, must be utterly destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

I permit so fair an existence to be blighted by the upas-tree of destiny under which I am doomed to languish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

This valley gave rise to the famous figment about the upas-tree, which once obtained such general belief in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference

What claws are to a cat, what the sting is to the bee, what its poison is to the upas tree, coquetry is to Georgy Lenox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

He wrote an account of the valley in which the upas was said to be growing alone, for no tree nor shrub was to be found near it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

In style and appearance it is the very antithesis of “the upas-tree,” upon which legendary lore cast unmerited responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

Jealousy is like the snake which insidiously entwines itself around its victim; or like the bohun upas of Java, which diffuses death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

Years ago travellers used to tell marvellous stories about a certain poison valley of Java in the centre of which stood an upas-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

That this was the rare upas tree that blighted all ordinary life that strayed beneath its shade bore in my mind the weight of proven fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON] Reference

"The juice of the upas, -- vulgarly called the poison-tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

It had an upas quality, dulling the brain, retarding the step.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

This was the only specimen of the upas tree that I saw in Borneo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery] Reference

This was the ill-famed upas tree of Java, the subject of so many ridiculous legends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

And then he buried the three covetous ones in separate graves under the upas itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

To live under the upas-tree of Peter Steinmarc's courtship would be impossible to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Tressel] Reference

All the legends of the upas tree are based on an account of it by a Dr. Foersch in 1783.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

With all the little parrots and monkeys flitting about in the branches of the upas trees!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure] Reference

The talk of its upas-like influence, its deadly fascination, is chiefly picturesque humbug.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

"Certainly we don't profess to keep a dying man alive upon the juice of the deadly upas-tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Stars, garters, and titles are its antidotes; red cloth and plush the upas-trees of its existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference