Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time (Vol.
Madame de Sevigne, speaking of the great lieutenant of police, wrote: 'His life is a proof that there are no poisoners now.
It is a fact that the seventeenth-century poisoners sought to prepare goblets and silver cups in such a way as to poison the persons who were afterwards to use them.
The rascals had not become artistic poisoners at that date, and it was found that the poor mare had received the drug through a rather large puncture in her nostril.
The list of women poisoners in England alone would stretch interminably.
There is, indeed, chapter and verse for believing that poisoners have arrived at a sense of omnipotence.
It is the most treasured secret that the Emperor's poisoners guard.
Regret and remorse are among the greatest poisoners of happiness, and prospective ideals must bear that truth in mind.
What Stevenson calls the "passion of interference with others" is one of the wretchedest poisoners of human happiness.
And the Sly Thieves and the Gay Wantons and the Bold Robbers and the Parasites and Poisoners and Impostors of every degree hung like leeches on the kingdom and bled it at every pore.
She had no patience with the Gay Wantons and Sly Thieves and Bold Robbers; and the Poisoners and the Parasites and the Impostors of every degree were a horror to her.
And when the Sly Thieves and Gay Wantons and Bold Robbers and Poisoners and Parasites and Imposters of every degree waxed fat before his eyes, and made gorgeous processions with banners before him, he said, "How prosperous my country is!
And in his court and his country there flourished Sly Thieves and Gay Wantons and Bold Robbers; also Poisoners and Parasites and Impostors of every degree.
I know that in criminal cases in London our pathologists, with their mirror-tests for arsenic, fix the guilt uponpoisoners in a manner most amazing.
The Doges of Venice, the Borgias, and the Medici have all had secret poisoners in their pay.
Was it the voiceless echo of an ill-omened incantation, handed down through generations of poisoners and witches from the time of pagan Rome?
It is a curious fact that most of the notorious poisoners in mediaeval times were women, and, indeed, in later years the frail sex seem to have retained a special predilection for this form of crime.
The school of Italian poisoners became prominent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the magnitude of their operations during that period struck terror into the hearts of the chief nobles and rulers of that country.
The poisoners of the seventeenth century not content with introducing poison into wine and other drinks, sought to improve on this method, by preparing the goblet or cup in such a way, that it would impregnate any liquid that was placed in it.
The most notorious of the Italian poisoners was the woman Toffana or Toffania, who carried on her practices from the latter end of the seventeenth century until she was brought to justice in 1709.
Boiling seems to have been a favourite punishment for poisoners during the Middle Ages, a fact which, doubtless, shows the abhorrence in which crimes of this kind were held.
The Venetian poisoners who first came into notoriety, flourished in the fifteenth century.
They are not onlypoisoners but conspirators and assassins.
The Jews of Oppenheim likewise burnt themselves to death to escape being tortured as poisoners (end of July).
From the histories of several poisoners we have terrible examples how the commission of crimes of this class becomes at last an all-absorbing passion.
Hogarth, George, Poisonersof the Seventeenth Century by, 229.
It appears, accordingly, (as we have already said,) that it was from the Italians that the poisoners of other countries derived their skill.
Women are so circumstanced as wives, nurses and in domestic service that they possess peculiar facilities for the administration of poison, and so the most prominent poisoners in criminal history have been women.
In spite of the dozens of lethal substances recommended by the Poison Institute, most poisoners stuck single-mindedly to arsenic or strychnine.
It is not surprising that, under such circumstances, professional poisoners usually escaped punishment.
Of the great schools of poisoners which flourished in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Venice was the earliest.
All the extraordinary details of these events have recently been described in the book of Madame Latour, where the intimate connexion between the poisonersand the magicians is shown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poisoners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
