Now she is having trouble rousing a candidate to bestow that restorative kiss: a marauding ogre gobbles up the first suitor, a tangle of evil weeds does in another.

Like gardeners, they must cast out the evil weeds and plough the matted earth into long fields and sow the seeds of future harvests.

All are being created and produced inside the "evil weed."

Now here's how we must combine to control the evil weed . . .

It was not long before all Europe was savoring pipefuls of the evil weed.

It is an evil weed, they say, a destroyer of their livelihood, far more dangerous than it looks.

"But why, then, are they confused and spoken of as the same evil weed?"

Every kind of evil weed that stank, stabbed, or scratched was strutting its stuff like nouveau riche Texas hicks with an oil strike.

But the Drug Enforcement Administration has vowed to keep fighting the evil weed.

Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes and began cultivating the plant commercially, even though the Puritans referred to it as the "evil weed".