Britannicus, in whom rested the last hopes of her vengeance and her ambition, must have been poisoned by his brother.
She felt, even then, in a bitterness of soul which could not be expressed, that even-handed justice was commending the ingredients of the poisoned chalice to her own lips.
He was poisonedby the Athenians with hemlock in their common prison.
Then she sent to Onesimus the coin on which was the head of Britannicus, and when he came to her room she concealed him in the recess, and he overheard enough to make him suspect that Britannicus was to be poisoned a week later.
If that wretch is poisoned too, every one will know what has taken place.
We pass over many a tragic scene in silence, but we cannot escape from this long death-agony of a Paganism which poisonedthe world with its dying breath before its corpse was swept aside by Christianity.
The freedmen, too, were swept away one after another, Narcissus was poisoned by the order of Agrippina; Pallas and Doryphorus by the order of Nero.
She had already been twice a widow, and the world said that she had poisoned her second husband, Crispus Passienus.
That the cook was innocent of any evil design he was sure, and he guessed that the fig-pecker would be poisoned by some slave of higher office about the young prince’s person.
He knew that they had been far from infrequent in the House of Cæsar, and that Eudemus, the physician of Drusus, son of the Emperor Tiberius, had poisoned his lord.
If they were insignificant persons, he had thempoisoned and seized their goods.
A handful of white ashes in a silver urn, a sad memory in a few loving hearts, were all that remained on earth of the poisoned son of an emperor of Rome.
And are all philosophers fools for extending so much reverence to a poisoned criminal?
Your mind has been poisoned against them by their enemies the Jews.
You should consider that a Child may be poisoned for the Worth of a Farthing; but except his poor Parents send to one certain Doctor in Town, [3] they can have no advice for him under a Guinea.
His Pencil aggravated every Feature that was before over-charged, loaded every Defect, and poisoned every Colour it touched.
These and the like Reflections well improved, might very much contribute to open the Beauty of that Art, and prevent young People from being poisoned by the ill Gusto of an extravagant Workman that should be imposed upon us.
On the third day he expires by my hand, poisoned by the cup which I alone am trusted to offer him at the Imperial banquet where thou wilt be present.
All this while the poisoned arrows are hissing through the air, spears are launched out of every thicket, and stones are slung or thrown at the unlucky pioneers from each spot of vantage.
The yelping curs completely bewilder their heavy game, and while he is paying attention to them and making attempts to kill them, the native creeps up and plants his bullet or poisoned spear in a vital spot.
Lieutenant Stairs was pierced with a poisoned arrow like others, but others died and he lives.
Another trial, a fierce surge through the ranks armed with lances and poisoned arrows, gave them headway.
According to the Byzantine writers, she craved eagerly for supreme power, and poisoned her father-in-law to hasten her husband's elevation to the throne.
It was the general opinion that his wife had poisoned him, either through jealousy of Zoe, or because she felt an aversion to passing the rest of her days in a convent.
They did not scold me, for they were afraid I had poisoned myself with the red dye.
So they baited a trap with poisoned meat, just outside of the hole, and poor Mossy was caught.
What a relief it was to be free of the horrible bells that poisoned one's rest at Lupton, to lie in peace as long as one liked, smoking a matutinal cigarette or two to the accompaniment of a cup of tea!
So also did they bribe the Athenian generals at Ægos–Potami:[35] but in the end the poisonedshaft recoiled upon themselves.
In this state of degradation Even–handed justice Condemns the ingredients of the poisoned chalice To our own lips.
You have been wounded by a poisoned arrow; but you have a faithful wife who can extract the poison.
Saladyne, piscator ictus sapit, he that hath been once poisoned and afterwards fears not to bowse[1] of every potion, is worthy to suffer double penance.
Thus sucks the yielding ear the poisoned bait, Thus feeds the heart upon his endless harms, Thus glut the thoughts themselves on self-deceit, Thus blind the eyes their sight by subtle charms.
Weak from the wounds of war, and the deeper enervation of a system that had poisoned her life for generations, she had not yet begun to rally.
She might learn that she was leaning, not even on a frail reed, but on a poisoned weapon that would pierce her heart.
Little wonder that, after spending nights upon a poisoned rack, Mr. Jocelyn was in no condition to meet his fellow-men and win their confidence.
No, Mrs. Wheaton, all was done that could be done in this poisoned air.
The first thing to do is to send these children to the country, and out of this poisoned air," and he sat down at once and wrote to his mother and Clara Wilson, formerly Clara Bute.
But while he looked, the thought rose up in his mind like waters from a poisoned fountain, that there was a deep plot laid to cheat him of the inheritance which by a double claim he meant to call his own.
We make two preparations, one of nerve fibres and of nerve cells of the poisoned frog, and, under the microscope, compare them carefully with an analogous one from the killed healthy frog.
In a very short time we have no difficulty to identify the poisoned frog.
The brave Inspector Weymouth I wounded with a poisoned needle, in self-defense; but I regret his condition as greatly as you do.
Fu-Manchu, were swallowed up by the river, Fu-Manchu held a poisoned needle in his hand.
Like powdered snow the white spores fell from the roof, frosting the writhing shapes of the alreadypoisoned men.
Milton, a boy of thirteen, was gloomily holding sacks for the measurer, and the glory of the October day was dimmed by the suffocating dust, and poisoned by the smarting beards and chaff which had worked their way down his neck.
As she tiptoed after him down the dark hallway he whispered further--"Reminds me of them old Romans, the general manager; them fellows that used to invite a man to a poisoned dinner.
On one occasion, again, there is some talk of a "poisoned letter," sent in an ingenious fashion.
Nearly a century later an untrustworthy historian gives currency to a story that Constantine himself had directed these massacres, having discovered that he had been poisoned by his brothers.
The bite of the serpent's fang is healed; the venom coursing through your veins is quelled; and health returns to the poisoned soul.
You feel sometimes as if your whole life were poisoned by that one cruel retrospect.
It was evident that the suspicion which had poisoned her life ever since the robbery had vanished.
The error was discovered when we began filling some empty jelly tumblers with the strange blue mixture, and, fortunately, no one was poisoned by drinking the ghoulish liquor.
But should I have been led on to stab him myself, with the poisoned dagger, had the portier not been there?
The one had a poisoned tongue as the other had a poisoned fang, and it was well to leave them both alone.
It was really impossible to go through the village for weeks after; the whole place was poisonedwith the fumes of horrid tobacco pipes.
To Lucian a man or a woman meant something that stung, that spoke words that rankled, and poisoned his life with scorn.
It may be that it would be better to no longer guard the Hills with balatak and stake and spear and poisoned dart.
He waited, tense, the hair at the back of his neck stiffening as he thought of blowpipes and of darts poisoned by steeping in the putrid entrails of wild hogs.
This silence it is which will ever be her crime; for by it she poisonedthe life of her husband.
Tim mentioned the fact to his master, who said: "You see, Tim, Hossein has determined that I shall not be poisoned without his knowing it.
