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Example sentences for "deadly poison"

  • I needn't tell you that sugar of lead is a deadly poison: any fool knows that.

  • The rector leant forward, fixed a penetrating glance upon his mistress, and said in a hollow and subdued tone, "I require poison—a deadly poison!

  • The counsel for the defence raised the objection that the accused were indicted for having administered a "deadly" poison, and that medical opinion did not hold that blue vitriol was a deadly poison.

  • A mother, surely, is not aware, that when she is giving her child Sugar Confectionery she is, in many cases, administering a deadly poison to him?

  • It is injurious to wear a green dress, if the colour have been imparted to it by means of Scheele's green, which is arsenite of copper--a deadly poison.

  • Yet this plant, which gives comfort and delight to millions of people, is a deadly poison if taken internally in even a minute quantity in its natural or manufactured state.

  • Sweet in words, they are but at heart a deadly poison.

  • Every qualified physician hath ruled—and this hath also been proven by tests—that one of the components of tobacco is a deadly poison, and that the smoker is vulnerable to many and various diseases.

  • Should any heap his blame upon you, praise ye him; should he offer you a deadly poison, give him the choicest honey in exchange; and should he threaten your life, grant him a remedy that will heal him evermore.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blushing deeply; colonial times; compound tincture; deadly earnest; deadly fear; deadly poison; deadly wound; diverse forms; duly authorized; either before; extract from; geographical knowledge; government coalition; great confusion; great scholar; its action; late husband; little brothers; little snow; marine shells; political events; quick time; took some; white persons; wholesome food