calamus
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In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2011
Away! gold of Arabia, Myrrh, calamus, and cassia, Far better I discover!
From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Paul Gerhardt
The outside of the raw calamus is smooth and is made into commercial cane used for chairs.
From Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw
"And then one can run around with Patty and tease the boys who sell pink calamus buds, and buy 'Peppery pot, smoking hot.'"
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Reed is the core or central part of the climbing calamus, a species of palm found in the jungles of Borneo and adjacent South Sea islands.
From Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw
In providing copy for a work of six volumes, each of about 1000 pages, it was but natural that lapsus calami should occur from time to time.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the lapsus calami of God.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
This contains "oleum calami," and the bitter principle "acorin."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
We omit translation of the words ”los seis,” “the six,” as being apparently a lapsus calami.
This should be Fort Clark, not Fort Leavenworth—an evident lapsus calami.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
