The teaching of the Mission School had been measured by the hard, bare materialism of poverty, quite as Upas-like as the materialism of philosophy.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
I knew I should die under the Upas tree of his hateful presence!
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
He shall yet find how fatal and poisonous is the hatred growing up like a Upas-tree in the desert he has made.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens