Olibanum of Java), corrupted in the parlance of Europe into benjamin and benzoin; camphor, produced by Cinnamomum Camphora, the "camphor laurel" of China and Japan, and by Dryobalanops aromatica, a native of the Indian Archipelago, and widely used as incense throughout the East, particularly in China; elemi, the resin of an unknown tree of the Philippine Islands, the elemi of old writers being the resin of Boswellia Frereana; gumdragon or dragon's blood, obtained from Calamus Draco, one of the ratan palms of the Indian Archipelago, Dracaena Draco, a liliaceous plant of the Canary Island, and Pterocarpus Draco, a leguminous tree of the island of Socotra; rose-malloes, a corruption of the Javanese rasamala, or liquid storax, the resinous exudation of Liquidambar Altingia, a native of the Indian Archipelago (an American Liquidambar also produces a rose-malloes-like exudation); star anise, the starlike fruit of the Illicum anisatum of Yunan and south-western China, burnt as incense in the temples of Japan; sweet flag, the root of Acorus Calamus, the bath of the Hindus, much used for incense in India.   anvd [Please select]

In the window of the Interpreter's hut on the cliff a lamp gleamed starlike above the darkness below.   anvd [Please select]

Some were white and starlike, but the greater number were the large scarlet cups of the trumpet-vine (_bignonia_).   anvd [Please select]

The starlike twinkle of a point of light suddenly shone out directly in advance.   anvd [Please select]

I admit that such are not for the tenderness of daily life; their influence must be high, distant, starlike, to be pure.   anvd [Please select]

Her cheeks were hot, her eyes starlike beneath the woven, massy sunlight of her hair.   anvd [Please select]

My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And starlike mingles with the stars.   anvd [Please select]