A little of this powder was placed on the leaves of five small SORBS, which were damped and placed under bell-glasses.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
But that ungrateful and malignant people, Which of old time from Fesole descended, And smacks still of the mountain and the granite, Will make itself, for thy good deeds, thy foe; And it is right; for among crabbed SORBS It ill befits the sweet fig to bear fruit.
"Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete"
Dante Alighieri