calamus
Example Sentences
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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
She sat her down therefore and took up her pen, or, as our ancestors would then have said, her calamus.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
In seven large bowls he places calamus, cedarwood, and incense.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
These feathers are specially interesting, inasmuch as they retain throughout life a stage corresponding to that seen in the very young cassowary, the calamus being greatly swollen, and supporting a very degenerate rhachis and vane.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The scummy pond sleeps lazily, Clad thick with lilies, and the bee Reels boisterous as a Bassarid Above the bloated green frog hid In lush wan calamus and grass, Beside the water's stagnant glass.
From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.
