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shank he at once desists from his attempt to reach the root, 
for he believes that it will elude his search by sinking deeper 
and deeper into the ground” (Johnston). I have never heard 
of its being cultivated in England, but it is cultivated in some 
European countries, and much prized as a wholesome and 
palatable root. 
pine. 
(1) She did confine thee, 
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Into a cloven Pine ; 
It was mine art, 
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When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape 
The Pine and let thee out.— Tempest , i. 2, 273. 
(2) Thus droops this lofty Pine and hangs his sprays. 
2 nd Henry VI , ii. 3, 45. 
(3) And by the spurs plucked up 
The Pine and Cedar.' — Tempest , v. I, 47. 
(4) As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, 
Infect the sound Pine and divert his grain 
Tortive and errant from his course of growth. 
Trot lus a)id Cressida, i. 3, 7. 
( 5 ) Where yonder Pine does stand 
I shall discover all. 
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This Pine is bark’d 
That overtopped them all.— Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 12, 23. 
(6) As the rudest wind 
That by the top doth take the mountain Pine, 
And make him stoop to the vale. — Cymbeline, iv. 2, 174. 
( 7 ) Behind the tuft of Pines I met them. 
Winter’s Tale , ii. 1, 33. 
(8) But when from under this terrestrial ball 
He fires the proud top of the eastern Pines. 
Richard II, iii. 2, 41. 
