oleander

Tell him I saw him and Miss Ashburton beneath the pink oleander. The tableau was pretty, but the pose and juxtaposition were too eloquent and evident to require explanation.

They had not gone a quarter of a league when at the meeting of two paths they saw coming towards them some six shepherds dressed in black sheepskins and with their heads crowned with garlands of cypress and bitter oleander. Each of them carried a stout holly staff in his hand, and along with them there came two men of quality on horseback in handsome travelling dress, with three servants on foot accompanying them.

I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn yard and its crowd of picturesque figures,all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.

Cold from its source the stream meanders Darkly down through the oleanders, All night long in dream I lie, Ah me!

She and Felix have something pleasanter to talk about, out under the oaks, or back in the shadow of the oleanders.

And as the evening drew near, we clambered down the mountain, through groves of the Biblical oaks of Bashan, (for we were just stepping over the border and entering the long-sought Holy Land,) and at its extreme foot, toward the wide valley, we entered this little execrable village of Banias and camped in a great grove of olive trees near a torrent of sparkling water whose banks are arrayed in fig-trees, pomegranates and oleanders in full leaf.

"From the garden behind the house--such a garden, Bunny-- oleanders and mimosa, myrtles, rosemarys and red tangles of fiery, untamed flowers--in a corner of this garden was the top of a subterranean stair down to the sea; at least there were nearly two hundred steps tunnelled through the solid rock; then an iron gate, and another eighty steps in the open air; and last of all a cave fit for pirates, a-penny-plain-and-two-pence- colored.

Diuretic effects of oleander toxicity are linked to direct effects of glycosides on renal tubules because sodium reabsorption in kidneys is an ATPase-dependent transport process.

All parts of some plants are poisonous even when eaten in small quantities, such as monkshood (Aconitum), yew (Taxus baccata), and oleander (Nerium oleander).

Stella was born and raised in Greenfield, daughter of John and Catherine (Oleander) Pulaski, and was a graduate of Greenfield High School.

C[pounds sterling]Everything removed will be replanted at the Patichion Park on Artemis Avenue, as well as a new type of dwarf oleander,C[yen] Deputy Mayor Alexis Michaelides told the Mail yesterday.

Travel over Water, was published by The Bitter Oleander Press in 2005.