 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1856 - Počet stránok 418
...neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. The smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable, though less so when it has newly fallen... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 648
...it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it tho less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians...sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. The smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable, though less so when it has newly fallen... | |
 | John Lindley - 1866 - Počet stránok 652
...none of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.* The unripe Durians are cooked as a vegetable, and the pulp of the ripe fruit is salted and preserved... | |
 | 1886 - Počet stránok 924
...cream-cheese, onion-sauce, brown sherry, and other incongruities," according to Mr. AR Wallace, who adds that " the more you eat of it, the less you feel inclined to stop ; in fact, to eat durions is a rare sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience." The disagreeable external odour... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - Počet stránok 918
...none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience." Mr. Wallace, in summing up the merits of the various fruits with which we are acquainted, says that... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - Počet stránok 360
...none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls of itself, and the only way to eat Durians in perfection is to get... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 596
...none of those qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.' To his mind, the Durian is the king, and the orange the queen of fruits. With respect to all these... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 634
...of those qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no 46 47 nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined...sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.' To his mind, the Durian is the king, and the orange the queen of fruits. With respect to all these... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - Počet stránok 694
...none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat durions, is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. When the fruit is ripe it falls... | |
 | Mary Somerville, Henry Walter Bates - 1870 - Počet stránok 632
...conspicuous flowers ; the mangosteen, and other tropical fruits, among which is the durian, to eat of which " is a new sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience." Rice is largely grown. The vast forests are the home of the Orang-Utan, an animal which is confined... | |
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It is neither acid, nor sweet, nor juicy; yet one feels the want of none of these qualities, for it is perfect as it is. 
