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devil’s apple

(1) Jimsonweed; Datura stramonium.  
(2) Mayapple; Podophyllum peltatum.
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Nonfiction AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS, CEASAR'S COMMENTARIES, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY (Bicrce), GOODE'S ATLAS, HAMMOND'S ATLAS, HOYLE'S RULES OF CARD GAMES, JAYNE'S SHIPS, etc., KING SOLOMON'S RING (Lorenz), PETERSON'S FIELD GUIDES, PLUTARCH'S LIVES, POOR RICHARD 'S ALMANACK (Franklin), ROBERTS' RULES OF ORDER
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The result: Cancer cells from one devil can survive in others (see How the Devil's Cancer Catches, below).
Hope for the devil? The race is on to save a rare animal from a deadly disease
The aim of the policy is to assist the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) to manage devil's claw resources, processes and products to ensure its sustainable management as well as the effective promotion of biodiversity conservation and human development.
New policy allows MET to monitor the usage of Devil's Claw products
The location for Devil's Ark was also selected due to its high elevation and natural landscape, which are similar to the Tasmanian devil's natural habitat.
New breeding program hopes to save Tasmanian devil from extinction
People still believed in the devil's power to act in the physical world, but the reformed interpretation of the devil saw his real power as his "influence on the conscience" (287).
The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England
Anyone who survives the Devil's Triangle with no penalty strokes receives a certificate proclaiming the feat.
The Devil's Triangle: at Mahogany Run in St. Thomas, golfers must navigate the Caribbean version of Amen Corner
The devil's strategy is always the same, Amorth says: "He makes people believe that hell does not exist, that sin does not exist, and that he is nothing but one more experiment to try out.
Giving Satan a chance: an exorcist's complaint. (Vatican)
When we pledge our allegiance to creation instead of to the Creator and want a better deal, as Adam and Eve did, than the one God has already promised us, we have crossed the threshold into the devil's territory.
Darth night of the soul: Lent is the time when Darth Vader and other princes of darkness come to church. (testaments)
Meanwhile, at parties, hostesses serve deviled eggs and devil's food cake.
The Devil, You Say
An African American mother might tell her son or daughter that blues music is the devil's music not because it really steals one's soul but because she wishes to spare her child the additional pain and suffering that any social rebel necessarily brings upon him- or herself and the community.
The blues artist as cultural rebel
TRIPLE murder suspect Brendan O'Donnell yesterday admitted killing Imelda Riney because she was "the Devil's daughter".
I HAD TO KILL THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER; Voice told me to do it, claims O'Donnell
As John Ciardi says of it in his Browser's Dictionary, the devil to pay means "There will be a hard time coming, but not, as often supposed, in the sense of standing before the devil's bar to atone for one's sins.
Knit-pickers who don't tow the line will soon have the devil to pay
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