They creep, as serpents, smoothly on their prey, But subtly spread their poison in the way.
Silent yet fiercely the battle is raging; Blood is not flowing, but poison is spread; Freedom and slavery madly are waging A war that will last till its cause shall be dead.
When I left this gentleman I proceeded to gather my simples, as it would take three months for the medicine to be got ready; but then, should the poison have brought anyone even to death's door, this medicine is able to call him back.
Those who eat of it die, and become shui-mang devils, tradition asserting that such devils are unable to be born again unless they can find some one else who has also eaten of this poison to take their place.
The Prince was exceedingly angry at this, and seized Feng again; and meanwhile one of the concubines got Feng's wife into the palace, intending to poison her.
If I am to go back, my elder brother Hsi Shan must no longer live with us; otherwise, I will assuredlypoison myself.
He then went off; and having quietly dropped the poison into the wine he had bought, went sauntering about the town.
Pope writhed in his chair from the light shafts which Cibber darted on him; yet they were not tipped with the poison of the Java-tree.
Let that mad dog Detraction bite till his teeth be worn to the stumps; Envy, feed thy snakes so fat withpoison till they burst; World, let all thy adders shoot out their Hydra-headed forked stings!
Hurd, who had fleshed his polished weapon on poor Jortin, and had been received into the arms of the hero under whom he now fought, adventured to cast his javelin at Leland: it was dipped in the cold poison of contempt and petulance.
As well as her I poison bear, Powerful and prompt, for men to fear.
She gave them cups of drink delicious, With poison sweet, with drugs pernicious.
Every one in easy circumstances (as the bulk of our citizens are) will prefer it to the poison to which they are now driven by their government.
It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses.
It will go under and over logs, through scratchy thickets and gardens of poison ivy.
Eddie had already gulped down some twenty pages of the poison and would not listen to reason.
Alcohol, of course, is good for poison ivy, but whisky is better.
It was poison ivy--that was what it was--and I had it bad.
He had already taken down his rod, and we made our way back through the brush without much difficulty, though I was still hot with effort and excitement, and I fear a little careless about the poison ivy.
There was poison ivy there, too, and a delegation of mosquitoes.
Chiefly, I was trying to avoid poison ivy, which is my bane and seemed plentiful in this particular neck of the woods.
Indeed it was great luck that we were not held longer by that distressing disorder which comes of the malignant three-leaved plant known as mercury, or poison ivy.
It was at such times that my inclination to drown or poison Eddie was stronger than usual.
They even began to repeat that Piso possessed letters from Tiberius which contained the order to poison Germanicus.
Tacitus pretends to know that Agrippina had secretly administered poison to Claudius in a plate of mushrooms.
They treated it as most natural that through jealousy he should poison his own nephew, his adopted son, the popular descendant of Drusus, the son of that virtuous Antonia who was his best and most faithful friend!
An almost invisible drop of sin let fall into the wellhead of life will sometimes poison the whole broad stream of life, as well as all the houses and fields and gardens, with all their flowers and fruits, that are watered out of it.
What a little thing will sometimes embitter and poison what promised to be a loyal and lifelong friendship!
The first time He came He sucked the poison of sin out of the souls of sinners with His own lips, and out of all the enjoyments that He had sanctified and prepared for them in heaven.
Even after God's own hand has so conspicuously cut the bars of iron in sunder; after He has made the solitary to dwell in families; we still see sin continuing in new shapes and in other forms to poison the sweetest things in human life.
There had been some sin in Samuel Rutherford's student days, or some stumble sufficiently of the nature of sin, to secretly poison the whole of his subsequent life.
What impatience with one another, what bad temper, what cruel and cutting words, what coldness and rudeness and neglect, in how many ways our abiding sinfulness continues to poison the sweetest springs of life!
And, then, inside our own camp and church how new and still more malignant kinds of poison begin to distil out of our incurably wicked hearts to eat out the heart of our own nearest and dearest friendships.
I do not say you can put the poison wholly out of your heart; you cannot: but you can and you must hold your peace about him.
They were as parochial, as unsubstantial, and as much made up of prejudice and ill-will as were some of those matters that have served under Satan to poison so often our own private and public and religious life.
If he knew that glittering thing Would to Earth such curses bring, Then his sufferings may have been Edged with poison from within.
It is a poison more deadly, more subtle, than any ever concocted by man, Walter.
Just now I do not know the poison and so cannot tell how quickly it acted.
I thought of curare, or woorali, the South American arrow poison with which Kennedy once had dealt.
Was it because the thought ofpoison reminded him of the two deaths so close to him, or was it from some more potent twinge of conscience?
Surely he had made no effort to conceal his knowledge of this film made with Doctor Nagoya, and he had even mentioned the poison of the rattlesnakes.
Could death have resulted from poisonadministered in some other fashion, by something she had eaten, for instance?
You don't think the poison was planted later during the excitement?
Fateh Mohammed, though naturally distrustful of the honeyed poison of Mowbray's counsel, felt in his heart of hearts that the Giaour was not only giving him good advice but making a fair offer.
Their state of rude health, and the exciting scenes which took place before the Emperor played his ultimate card and failed, caused the poison to stimulate rather than retard their faculties.
Harken, friend," said he, "one lie will poison a river of truth.
The poison he deposited in a small vessel, and of the tusks he formed two weapons, called limpung and neng'gála, so heavy that it required seven hundred men to lift one of them.
The tree which produces thispoison is the anchar, and grows in the eastern extremity of the island.
In some instances, particularly young fowls, the poison acts with great rapidity; death has frequently occurred within the space of a minute after a puncture with a poisoned dart.
The poison from different parts of the island has been found nearly equal in activity.
Near the ground this bark is, in old trees, more than half an inch thick, and upon being wounded yields plentifully the milky juice from which the celebrated poison is prepared.
This poison affects fowls in a much more violent manner than that of the anchar.
The substance that remains after separation is a deadly poison to fowls, dogs, and various other animals.
I repeated this experiment with two other puppies, with a cat, and a fowl, and found the operation of the poison in all of them the same: none of these animals survived above thirteen minutes.
The distilled water from laurel-leaves is, perhaps, the most sudden poison we are acquainted with in this country.
I thought it necessary to try also the effect of the poison given inwardly, which I did in the following manner.
This violent effect of the poison at so great a distance from the tree, certainly appears surprising, and almost incredible; and especially when we consider that it is possible for delinquents who approach the tree to return alive.
Account of the manner in which the Poison it procured.
And without that, their poison and their claws Are useless.
Give me a spoon, I'll eat of it myself; Would it were full of poison to the brim, Then should my cares and troubles have an end.
Your trick of poisoned pictures we dislike; Some other poison would do better far.
Upon this unsuspecting body of men the poison fumes were projected by means of pipes and force pumps.
Germany sowed its seeds of destruction in the wind that bore the fumes of poison gas, and in the ruthless brutality that decreed the sinking of the Lusitania and the murders of Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt.
Toward the end of April the Germans reverted to supreme barbarism and used poison gas.
It ranked with the poison gas at Ypres, the Lusitania, the Belgian atrocities, the killing of Edith Cavell and the unrestricted submarine sinkings, as a factor in arousing the democratic peoples of the world to a fighting pitch.
The scientific diabolism of the German High Command was revealed when poison gas was projected against the Canadians at Ypres, torturing, blinding and killing thousands.
The Army of the Meuse then made its way like a gray-green cloud of poisongas through Belgium.
Poison gas first used by Germans in attack on Canadians at Ypres, Belgium.
Gas masks were speedily discovered to offset the dangers of poison gases of all kinds.
During the whole campaign poison gas of various kinds was used in immense quantities, and it was constantly necessary for the troops to wear gas masks.
The use of poison gas, the word being used in its broad sense, is now general.
Poison gas shells rained blindness and death upon the retreating Italians and upon the heroic rear-guards.
I must do him some injury--some real injury that will seem to poison his food for him and rob him of his rest.
Thou, who forbiddest me to save myself by poison or the steel, Thou wilt save me in Thy justice from a crime that is abhorrent in Thy sight.
No one can cure this poison except the queen of Ireland, sister of the dead man.
Let us not poison our lives by the idea of death, they used to think, at least before this century; there is a time for all things, and it will be enough to remember death when its hour strikes.
I seek that corner in Hell where the thunders are welded and the poison gases mixed.
There was certainly not a soul in Soto's that night who did not know that Bobby Fairfax had been arrested in the bar below for the murder of Victor Bidlake, had taken poison and died on the way to the police station.
Since that dread night when Mysta stept not down With all you speechless ones to disarray me, Have you not dreamed that I did poison her?
That which could add a further agony To the last agony, the daily poison Of her late, withering life; but never word Of fairer hours or any lost delight.
Ay, but the disposition is in the seed; I poison by a motion of the heart.
He was in a nervous, irritable mood, caused by his abstention from the poison which had become almost a necessity to him, and the significant glances of the two men maddened him.
Was he so weak, then, as to return to thepoison that had made him the byword of clodhoppers?
Sandy breathed the word like a hiss, and in the darkness and his weakness he felt the poison of the lie stealing into his thought, but he flung his head up proudly.
