Lexicographical Neighbors of Durions
Literary usage of Durions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1869)
"In fact, to eat durions, is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.
When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat ..."
2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"Among these fruit« was one kind now known by the name of durions, a thing greatly
esteemed, and so luscious that the Malacca merchants tell how a certain ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"In fact, to eat durions is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.
When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself; and the only way to eat ..."
4. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"In fact, to eat durions is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.
" When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat ..."
5. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A...description of Man and Nature in the by Georg Hartwig (1877)
"In fact, to eat durions is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to ...
When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat durions in ..."
6. Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living by Henry Theophilus Finck (1913)
"In fact, to eat durions is a rare sensation, worth a voyage to the East to
experience." I remember reading in the London "Telegraph," many years ago, ..."
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