Weel, ma mannie,' he says tae Hopps, 'it's a fine ploy, and ye 'ill better gang on wi' the NUX till it's dune, and gie him ony ither o' the sweeties he fancies.
"Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
Ian Maclaren
Among the best of them are NUX Postcoenatica, A Modest Request, Ode for a Social Meeting, The Boys, and Rip Van Winkle, M.D. Holmes's favorite measure, in his longer poems, is the heroic couplet which Pope's example seems to have consecrated forever to satiric and didactic verse.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
Those most commonly known to us, and which may be seen growing wild by the roadside, are the NUX vomica, ipecacuanha, gamboge, sarsaparilla, cassia fistula, cardamoms, etc.
"Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon"
Samuel White Baker