Volumes have been written, and a whole chemist's shop of deadly concoctions devised, for combating these ants, and still they go steadily on, gathering leaves which, as we shall see, they do not even use for food.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
Very often the road-stand operator destroys the genuine sales appeal that such stands have by specializing in manufactured concoctions that have no relation whatever to the location where they are sold.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee
My notions in regard to them were of pure imagination, and I only knew them as potentially picturesque ingredients of literary concoctions.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick