| They are easily frightened, and can only be lured out of their nesting grounds with offerings of mandrake root. |
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| Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple. |
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| This is true of many old medicinal plants like the mandrake, an herb which grows around the Mediterranean. |
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| In the Book of Venoms, he listed arsenic, aconite, hellebore, laurel, opium, bryony, mandrake, leopard's gall, and menstrual blood. |
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| Among the plants and herbs that were sacred to Hecate was the mandragora or mandrake. |
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| Some preparations are adulterated with phenylbutazone, ephedrine, aminopyrine or mandrake root. |
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| Flowers range from peonies, delphiniums, various brooms and gorses, mallows, asters and periwinkle through to buglosses, mandrake, daisies, narcissi, irises and orchids. |
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| They are then put on the fire to cook a little, and finally the oil is filtered to obtain what is known as mandrake oil. |
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| Colin, staring at a jar of mandrake roots, turns to her, smiling. |
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| Last summer at The Yard, an arts colony devoted entirely to dance, he spent a month making Mandragora Vulgaris, a work based on the medieval legend of the mandrake root. |
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| In those responses, any resemblance to our intelligence is superficial, like that of a mandrake root to a person. |
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| When I was a girl, lost in poetry, the only root on my mind was the mandrake root in John Donne — the one that made you pregnant. |
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| Mandragore's music has a powerful effect on its listeners, similar to those attributed to the mythical mandrake plant for which they are named. |
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| Plants, such as the mandrake, orchid, and sweet potato, have, as the history of folk medicine reveals, been credited with rejuvenating properties. |
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| The author suggests that the mandrake tradition may have originated in Persia, and other plants may have been previously similarly used in Northern Europe and in China. |
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| The resulting rectangles were used not only to cultivate the vegetables that they ate but also medicinal plants for their healthcare, dyer's plants and sometimes even dangerous plants such as mandrake or foxgloves. |
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| This species also includes tobacco, poisonous belladonna, and the toxic plants herbane, mandrake, and jimson weeds. |
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| Illustrating a darker and more mysterious facet of the mandrake, this new perfume is different from the original Mandragore whose fragrancy is based on refreshing and woody scents. |
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| These are semi-synthetic derivatives of podophyllotoxin, which is an extract from the mandrake plant. |
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| A contrasting interpretation for an ode to mystery... The ribbed bottle is purple mat coloured in order to remind the darker aspect of the mandrake plant. |
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| Mandrake Linux includes Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi Devanagari and Tamil out of the box. |
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| Among the many characters taking part were Mistress Crabby and Master Mandrake, who stopped at the fair on their way to Bolton Abbey. |
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| But the only known Mandrake tree in existence is in the centre of the shadowlands. |
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| Red Hat and Mandrake are clearly banking on support contracts and installations of their advanced server products to generate revenue. |
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| In the updated version Mandrake the Magician is an extreme escape artist who uses his illusion skills to work in international espionage. |
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| For the first time, Linspire, Fedora and Mandrake are being offered together in one package. |
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| Mandrake fancies that Nat is more comfortable in deck shoes. |
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| The Mandrake Root brings the classics to life for young people and it was wonderful to play in such a film, which has had a fantastic response so far. |
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| Peter Farrago, director of the winning play put together a cast from talent at the Festival to perform Mike Alfreds' Mandrake, The Musical at the next Edinburgh Festival. |
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