The peach tree at the first planting was frutefull and wholesome, wheras now til it be transplanted, it ispoysonous and hatefull.
No poysonous beast there reposed, (poyson was not before our parent Adam transgressed).
And therefore whether their breath be attracted, or their flesh ingested, the poysonous reliques go still along with their Antidote: whose society will not permit their malice to be destructive.
Nay, go not from vs thus: If it were so, that our request did tend To saue the Romanes, thereby to destroy The Volces whom you serue, you might condemne vs As poysonous of your Honour.
We make our selues Fooles, to disport our selues, And spend our Flatteries, to drinke those men, Vpon whose Age we voyde it vp agen With poysonous Spight and Enuy.
Oh Soueraigne Mistris of true Melancholly, The poysonous dampe of night dispunge vpon me, That Life, a very Rebell to my will, May hang no longer on me.
If it were so, I might haue let alone The insulting hand of Dowglas ouer you, Which would haue bene as speedy in your end, As all the poysonous Potions in the world, And sau'd the Treacherous labour of your Sonne K.
Which cryes not, Goddesse, to thy Mistresse, draw, Or eate thy poysonous words?
As there are in this Countrey very many Poysonous Plants, and Creatures, so the People have excellent skill in the healing thereof.
Another poysonous Snake there is called Noya, of a grayish colour, about four foot long.
So in the most goodly and glorious City under Heavens Canopy, there are some Asps lurking, that sting the reputation of their Brethren by their poysonous and corrupt dealings.
Vp into the Countrey westward from the plantations is a high hill, which is called rattlesnake hill, where there is great store of these poysonous creatures.
This is a mostpoysonous and dangerous creature, yet nothing so bad as the report goes of him in England.
And he assures, that he hath seen men eat, and hath often made Bruit Animals swallow all that is esteem'd most poysonous in a Viper, yet without the least mischief to them.
Whether in Candia there be no poysonous Creatures; and whether those Serpents, that are there, are without poyson?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poysonous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
