Others, such as wavy-leaf soap plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum), were used to stupefy and catch fish in the streams and to make a shampoolike soap.

From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row

[A] Writers Stomach, Appetite, and Victuals, may be judg'd from his Method, Stile, and Subject, as certainly as if you were his Meſs-fellow, and ſat at Table with him. Hence we call a Subject dry, a Writer inſipid, Notions crude, and indigeſted, a Pamphlet empty or hungry, a Stile jejune, and many ſuch like Expreſſions, plainly alluding to the Diet of an Author, and I make no manner of doubt but Tully [i.e., Cicero] grounded that ſaying of Helluo Librorum upon the ſame Obſervation.]

Ali Baba had a maid by the name of Margiana, and she was very wittified,—discovered the whole thing, but she didn't say anything.