The dark girl, after a languid glance round, gave her shapely shoulders a slight shrug before half closing her eyes, and gazing through the tall, blank window at a scaly araucaria upon the lawn.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
He is rather like that detestable and spidery thing the araucaria, which has a wound for every tender hand, and invites no bright-eyed feathered songsters to perch or build among its sinister branches.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
Species of araucaria like those of Australia are also found.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell