How To Use chinchona In A Sentence
- Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
- Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. Les Miserables
- In its crude form the bark of the chinchona tree had been used for its medical properties since times immemorial. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
- I said with enjoyment, 'I could certainly get you drunk in the wilderness, but actual gin would depend on juniper bushes, and tonic on chinchona trees for quinine, and I don't think they'd both grow in the same place, but you never know.' Longshot
- The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. Les Miserables
- Quinine tree Chinchona succirubra and mora Caesalpinia bonduc have altered parts of the humid zone of Santa Cruz and San Cristobal. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
- They are especially concentrated on getting control of the expanding problems caused by fast growing plants such as guava (Psidiun guajava), quinine (Chinchona succirubra), lantana shrub (Lantana camara) and elephant grass (Chinchona succirubra). Galápagos Islands xeric scrub
- Anyway, this is a short (190 page) but glossy book on seven plants and their impact on human history, especially colonialism: tobacco, sugar cane, cotton, tea, the opium poppy, chinchona (the source of quinine) and rubber. Linkspam for 12-10-2009
- The forests contain mahogany, lignum-vitæ, and the chinchona tree, from which quinine is made. The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She P
- The intermediate slopes are clothed with a vegetation partly African, partly European; and here Humboldt, at the end of the last century, proposed to naturalise the chinchona. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
