calamus

Example Sentences

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In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011

"And then one can run around with Patty and tease the boys who sell pink calamus buds, and buy 'Peppery pot, smoking hot.'"

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

At their bases these rudimentary barbs meet to form the calamus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

She sat her down therefore and took up her pen, or, as our ancestors would then have said, her calamus.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

Along the centre of the floor is the median furrow, which terminates below in a pen-shaped form, the so-called calamus scriptorius.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various