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Example sentences for "cause death"

  • As one or two days sufficed to cause death, hydrophobia could not have had time to make its appearance.

  • The point of a needle dipped into one of these flasks is sufficient to cause death.

  • Very soon the blood of the rabbits ceases to cause death in the pigs, though it renders them ill.

  • If poison be administered with intent to murder, it is not necessary that there should be enough in the article administered to cause death, or that it should be given in such a way as to act fatally.

  • Supposing the acid to be of the highest strength you have mentioned, do you consider seven drops would have been sufficient to cause death?

  • Would seven drops be sufficient to cause death?

  • With some persons doses, which, in themselves, are insufficient to cause death, yet have a peculiar effect on the mental faculties.

  • The corrosive and narcotico-acrid poisons may produce by this local action a degree of irritation sufficient to cause death.

  • Thus, short and unenduring as is the operation of these agents, it may last long enough to cause death, and so a temporary influence produce a permanent result.

  • One drop of the pure acid is sufficient to cause death.

  • Taken in the form either of the crystals or solution it is likely to cause death in a very short time.

  • If not sufficient to cause death, there is impaired appetite with more or less nausea for some time after.

  • The quantity of poison introduced by the bite of a venomous snake depends, as has already been stated, upon a large number of factors, and, very fortunately, this quantity is not always sufficient to cause death.

  • His intention was to smite his loins, and there was not sufficient force in the blow to cause death in his loins, and it passed to his heart, and there was sufficient force in the blow to cause death in his heart, and he died?

  • But in most instances this is not the case, and in such instances the testimony of experts is required by the necessity of the case, to show that the wounds and injuries were sufficient to cause death.

  • Some wounds and injuries might be sufficiently apparent and dangerous so that the common, inexperienced eye would at once detect that they were sufficient to cause death.

  • The party may not mean to cause death, or the medicine may produce beneficent effects, but he has no right to hazard medicine of a dangerous tendency when medical assistance can be obtained.

  • The question to be determined is whether they were inflicted before or after death; if before death, whether they were sufficient to cause death.


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