The seed is used to cure the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels worms, and other noisome creatures that breed in the belly.
Every thing about her was in a condition noisome and detestable.
His senses had not been assailed by any noisome effluvia.
He saw the boy who had stood beneath the yews of the old Hall, who had fought at Worcester beneath his father's eye; the man who had lain in prison and in the noisome hold of the ship, put up and sold to the highest bidder.
The most robust rustic required several months of seasoning before he and the Virginia climate became friends, and this man was still weak from privation and confinement in prison and in the noisome hold of the ship.
This noisome odour probably gave rise to the notion that the Shrew-mouse is a venomous animal, and its bite dangerous to cattle, particularly horses.
I was born in a little dusky, close, noisome shop in a back street of Vierzon, that dreary town of our dreary district of the Sologne.
The tail fat of four Berbera rams encrusted his head in a perfect helmet of tallow, and the putrid entrails of the antelope he had last slain, were slung in noisome coils about his neck, to the pollution of the atmosphere he breathed.
In the filthy purlieus of the palace, and close to the outer gate, stands a mound of ashes and rubbish, mingled with the noisome lees that stream over the road from the adjacent royal breweries.
But among these scattered débris of former life and habitation there was no noisome or unclean suggestion of decay.
Let me tell you the "code Napoleon" carried light not only into the Ghettos, but into many another noisome spider-clot of feudalism.
He had no communion with the bulk of his brethren, save in religious ceremonies, and for these he would go to the poorest houses in the most noisome courts.
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts.
Then the wind abated, and an unsearchable and noisome fog followed; so dense that not an acre of sea could be seen from the top-mast head, and so foul that the compasses would not work in it.
The stores were lit up by their open lamps, whose noisome smoke streamed out over the pathway, and mingled with the foul vapors that came from the drinking shops.
By this time Stephen had slipped out of the noisome place, and was rambling on the quiet shore alone, with head bent, cheeks ashy pale, eyes fixed, and his brawny hands thrust deep into his pockets.
Not only from that noisome prison-house, which has now such a memory, but from the morenoisome embrace of that hideous monster.
As the light sank into the noisome depths, there came a shriek which chilled Adam's blood--a prolonged agony of pain and terror which seemed to have no end.
Whilst occupied in making the discoveries I was sickened by a noisome stench, which proceeded from the dead body of a man, carefully hidden by branches, grass, and moss, a short distance from the little cage of twisted boughs.
They were living directly over a noisome cess-pool; their cellar was filled with water which could not be drained away, nor would the saturated earth drink it up.
Nothing therefore can be more vnlikelie to be true, than that these noisomecreatures are nourished amongst vs to deuoure our wormes, which doo not abound much more in England than elsewhere in other countries of the maine.
I am hunted like a partridge on the mountains; but, by the help of my God, I shall yet escape from the noisome pit, and from the snares of the fowler.
That same night some of the garrison, having permission from their commanders, annoyed their enemies with strange and noisome alarms, during which they contrived to steal some powder, and other necessaries of which they were much in want.
Plague or the most noisome pestilence would have been a visitation of mercy compared to the miseries caused by so dark a superstition.
I kept one for more than a twelvemonth, which to the last remained wild and also retained its noisome odour.
Credulity trembled, and they contemplated with horror the idea that on quitting its present agreeable abode the soul would become the inhabitant of a noisome animal.
Secondly, as regards the affections, seeing that man's noisome affections are restrained by the example and reproof which he receives from others; for as Gregory says (Moral.
Now noisome pleasures and delights are the concern of temperance rather than of fortitude.
All churchyards, gardens, and trades that use great fires and noisome smells" were to be relegated to the country, and the churches with their spires were to be placed in prominent positions on the main thoroughfares.
Maslova, with horror, involuntarily breathing in the air that had become terribly noisome towards the morning.
When Maslova returned to her noisome cell after this interview, she took off her cloak and sat down in her place on the shelf bedstead with her hands folded on her lap.
This was, they knew, only visible when it had been disturbed by the monsters who made it their noisome lair.
The second floor of the jail was crowded with a noisy and noisome crew.
It might blow hurricanes overhead; the lightning might leap in high heaven; but no word of all this reached him in his noisome pit.
He had been lowered in a basket into a noisome pit, where he lay, all summer, gnawing hard crusts and railing upon fate.
He dwelt all his life in a pit more noisome than the dungeon at Meun.
There is no spectre so terrible as the unsuspected spectre of a man's own self; it is noisomeenough to the man who is ever trying to better it: what must it appear to the man who sees it for the first time!
A stench so noisome followed, as to be insufferable to human nostrils.
