john barleycorn in a sentence

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1. Roads between these places are constructed and transportation provided; paths can lead from a photograph of the damage done by the Eastern tent caterpillar on Flowering Plum Trees to the complete text of " John Barleycorn " by Jack London ( http : / / jg . cso . uiuc . edu / pg / newest . html ).
2. An early literary use of the term is by Jack London in 1913, who describes one kind of alcoholic, in the autobiographical " John Barleycorn ", as " the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, who is also half cocaine; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and " pink elephants ".