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Definition of Mandrakes
1. mandrake [n] - See also: mandrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandrakes
Literary usage of Mandrakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field,and brought them ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Some mandrakes cannot be pull«! from the earth without producing fatal effects,
so a cord used to be ... Shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth. ..."
3. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart (1888)
"The ashes yield the 'soap' of Scripture. mandrakes (Heb. ... The mandrakes give
a smell.'—Song of Solomon vii. 13. The slight references to this plant in ..."
4. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1859)
"As to the mandrakes themselves something may be said. ... but we may safely leave
the disputed questions concerning mandrakes to those who have time and ..."
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