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Sentences ending with poison

Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison. [10]
It was either to protect the prince from the contamination which his caste would suffer if the vessels were touched by low-caste hands, or it was to protect his highness from poison. [5]
He had a sudden attack of illness, which was thought to look very much like the effect of poison. [6]
Though she was so weary, yet she lay down on her couch with fresh hopes, and fell into a dreamless sleep almost against her will, without having touched the poison. [10]
That dungeon was slow poison. [11]
These dishes were received by a gentleman in the same order they were brought, and placed upon the table, while the taster gave to each guard a mouthful to eat of the particular dish he had brought, for fear of any poison. [5]
There is a presumption against putting lead or arsenic into the human body, as against putting them into plants, because they do not belong there, any more than pounded glass, which, it is said, used to be given as a poison. [3]
He thought of poison. [5]
Valmond watched like one in a dream, and twice or thrice he turned faint, and drew his cloak about him as if he were cold; for a sickly air, passing by, seemed to fill his lungs with poison. [11]

Short sentences using poison

I am afraid of poison! [10]
Think there's poison in it? [11]
That poison is deadly. [10]
The poison was at work. [9]
Was poison found? [5]
Poison? [11]

More example sentences with the word poison in them

Here they were who, without words or acts, had been to each other what Adam and Eve were in the Garden, without furtiveness, and guiltless of secret acts which poison Love. [11]
Then the thing which he grieves to leave is narrowed down to a person--to the person whose "dewy looks" had sunk into his breast, and whose seducing words had "stirred poison there. [5]
Steel and poison were the weapons then. [4]
Time and time we met people plodding along, some of them nodding uncertainly, others abruptly taking the far side of the pike, and every encounter drove the poison deeper into his soul. [9]
I'm here watchin', waitin' dead on to him, the poison skunk! [11]
His mother and two noble sons were snatched from him in a day; and he would again have had recourse to poison as a refuge from all, if a dim ray of hope had not permitted him to believe in their escape. [10]
She had gone to the ball that night as if it were a funeral; she shunned men like poison, and even kept out of the way of her sister's friends. [10]
If he wants to make himself an exception to the sober people whose cooking will make him long for the maddening bowl, he must bring his poison with him. [4]
Thus poison turns to healing, and a curse to a blessing. [10]
He was still the victim to a poison which gave not only a struggle of body, but a struggle of soul--if he had a soul. [11]
I am testing the poison with the minimum. [11]
In ancient days the high, the humane, in search of cure for poison, poisoned themselves, and then applied the antidote. [11]
He had not the courage.... No; he died of poison or was strangled. [11]
The place of the bite was easily found and the two marks of the claw-like jaws already showed the effects of the poison, a small livid circle extending around them, with some puffy swelling. [6]
You wouldn't, perhaps, tell us what the poison is, Mr. Mappin? [11]
Nor did they speak without reason; fever was preparing a victim for the sacrifice at Rahway, and Louis Bachelor was fed with its poison till he grew haggard and weak. [11]
He discovered, by some nearly invisible sign about his skin, that the poison of leprosy was in him. [5]
There were no signs of poison, they said, but the heart had had a shock of some kind. [11]
Do you suppose she left that poison to rankle in the tender soul of her darling? [6]
But Ikni knows--you shall be struck with poison too, the Spirit of the Red Knife waits for you. [11]
Whenever these dogs scratch the ground the dust of poison is in the air, and we die. [11]
I believe a salaried taster has to taste everything before the prince ventures it--an ancient and judicious custom in the East, and has thinned out the tasters a good deal, for of course it is the cook that puts the poison in. [5]
I saw and said that yesterday, and now I know it for certain--every poison shaft that your malice has aimed at me was forged in the Museum. [10]
That was the poison, and I only began to realize it after it was too late. [9]
You will buy Poison instead of food across the way, The lies of--this or that, each several name The standard's blazon and the battle-cry Of some true-gospel faction, and again The token of the Beast to all beside. [6]
Strictly speaking, every poison consisting of assimilable elements may be considered as unwholesome food. [3]
She had this poison brought to her, and resolved calmly and deliberately, to take her own life directly the executioner should draw near. [10]
She has taken poison and her life cannot be saved, though this antidote may possibly prolong it for a few days. [10]
In the first place you get rid of the noxious emanations which poison so many country localities with typhoid fever and dysentery, not wholly rid of them, of course, but to a surprising degree. [6]
Queen Mary had ordered that it should be omitted, because Dr. Mathys had pronounced it poison for the gouty patient, and she confessed the offence. [10]
There was poison or something in the frozen fish I'd given them. [11]
The food of one animal or of one human being is sometimes poison to another, and vice versa; inert substances may act mechanically, so as to produce the effect of poisons; but this division holds exactly enough for our purpose. [3]
And the poison of the old serpent, which infected Adam when he fell into his Transgression, by hearkening to the Tempter, has corrupted all mankind, and is a seed unto such diseases as this Infant is now laboring under. [3]
And the force of obvious analogy teaches us not to expect all the qualities which please the general taste in those whose instincts lead them to attack the moral nuisances which poison the atmosphere of society. [6]
The feathered end of his shaft titillates harmlessly enough, but too often the arrowhead is crusted with a poison worse than the Indian gets by mingling the wolf's gall with the rattlesnake's venom. [6]
He would leave nothing undone to achieve his end, and do nothing that would not in the end poison her soul and turn her very glories into miseries. [11]
Soon, ataxic (irregular) nervous symptoms declared themselves, and it became plain that the system had been infected by the poison. [6]
Pay attention to my Argus, and remember, we are in Egypt, the land of poison, as Homer long since said. [10]
In Paris and Munich, for instance, they say, "Don't drink the water, it is simply poison. [5]
Charmian was found lying pale and distorted at the feet of her royal mistress; but Iras, tottering and half stupefied by the poison, was adjusting the diadem, which had slipped from its place. [10]
Was it the light reflected from the glossy leaves of the poison sumach which overhung the path that made his cheek look so pale? [6]
He knew the law well enough, and knew that the old man would be compelled without respite or delay to empty the cup of poison if he were found guilty of the theft of a human heart. [10]
Many shunned the labour which the saint enjoined upon his disciples, and the old jugs were often filled with new wine, which he, Benedictus, never tasted, and which the saint rejected as poison. [10]
The poison did its work quickly. [10]
The brute fact is expressed in the phrase "One man's meat is another man's poison. [6]
One man's meat is another man's poison. [10]
That he had infused poison into his son's life and compelled him, proud as he was, to forfeit the dignity of a free and high-minded man. [10]
The poison had indeed worked more rapidly than any the imperial body physician was acquainted with; and he, not less anxious to mollify the sovereign, bore them out in this opinion. [10]
It is 'sentiment,' in my sense of the term--sentiment jealously hidden, but genuine, which extracts the venom from that formidable Thackeray, and converts what might be corrosive poison into purifying elixir. [14]
In New York I became contaminated, --the poison of the place, of the people with whom I came in contact, got into my blood. [9]
A treacherous stillness, however,--as the unfortunate New York physician found, when he put his foot out to wake up the torpid creature, and instantly the fang flashed through his boot, carrying the poison into his blood, and death with it. [6]
Let Nico pay heed: False love is poison. [10]
I tell you he only wants to poison us! [10]
It was then he had given the home authorities information which would poison their mind against Dyck, and from that had come the order to confine him to his plantation. [11]
Much as we have gained, we have not yet thoroughly shaken off the notion that poison is the natural food of disease, as wholesome aliment is the support of health. [3]
Why does it give poison to an Irish soldier? [11]
The adventurers hungered for the gold in the rivers, and they made it one long washing-trough, where the disease that afflicted them passed on from man to man like poison down a sewer. [11]
Here is a fellow that has just swallowed poison. [3]
Klea avoided my eye to-day as if it shed poison like a viper's tooth, and I can have nothing more to do with her: still, might I be informed how she came into this temple? [10]
Strong and passionate effort of will, surprising to him, held back the poison from piercing his soul. [13]
Leicester filled her ears with poison every day, mixed up your business and great affairs with France, sought to convey that you both were not what you are; until at last I countermarched him. [11]
Was ever giant's dungeon dug so deep, Was ever tyrant's fetter forged so strong, Was e'er such deadly poison in the draught The false wife mingles for the trusting fool, As he whose willing victim is himself, Digs, forges, mingles, for his captive soul? [6]
And so the document went on, detail by detail, turning these waters of life to poison, this gold to dross, these proofs of a noble and beautiful life to evidences of a foul and odious one. [5]
It contained a detailed account of Nitetis' sufferings, ending with these words: "Thus the unhappy victim of your ambitious plans will end her life in a few hours by poison, to the use of which she was driven by despair. [10]
For if Same cures Same, then every poison must be its own antidote,--which is neither a part of their theory nor their so-called experience. [3]
This must utterly cloud, darken, poison his already joyless existence. [10]
Convince them as clearly as you will, that their passion is only another word for poison, fire, folly, death, they still cry, 'Tis sweet,' and will not be hindered in their course. [10]
The vengeance she called on them to take might be balm to the wounds of her own heart; but if Caesar in his wrath brought destruction down on these, her innocent instruments, that balm would turn to burning poison. [10]
The poison generated by the struggle of my nature with its environment had sunk too deep, and the very education that was supposed to make a practical man of me had turned me into a sentimentalist. [9]
The indignation aroused by the German princes, and the difficult decision to which their conduct is forcing him, act upon his soul like poison. [10]
Villiard had drunk both glasses of the poison! [11]
That horrible man, Boges, read me the fearful sentence of death, and it was that which forced the poison into my hand. [10]
One man's meat being another's poison, Lise absorbed from the movies an element by which her sister Janet was repelled. [9]
If poison had been within her reach, in that hour she would unhesitatingly have put an end to her ruined life. [10]
It might perhaps be less mischievous, but for the fact that the wound where it leaves its poison opens the fountain from which it draws its nourishment. [6]
This was to be caused by a poison extracted from peach-kernels. [10]
But you ran away like a wolf from a coal of fire; you shammed death like a fox; you come back like the snake to crawl into the house and strike with poison tooth, when you should be with the worms in the ground. [11]
An important incantation, at which no one but the two concerned might be present, and the application of a new and secret antidotal poison were the pretexts which he had used in order to get rid of them. [10]
We don't look at sickness as we used to, and try to poison it with everything that is offensive, burnt toads and earth-worms and viper-broth, and worse things than these. [6]
He began, cautiously at first, to poison the public mind against England. [5]
Since Cleopatra had ascertained that no poison caused a less painful death than the fangs of the asp, she had resolved that the bite of one of these reptiles should release her from the burden of life. [10]
Was there ever anything wholesome that was not poison to somebody? [6]
We don't want any of their poison. [8]
Weill and Company and other unscrupulous upstarts are willing to do so, and poison the poor and the sick with adulterated groceries! [9]
The distinguished Dr. Amadei was immediately sent for, and applied cups over the wounds in the hope of drawing forth the poison. [6]
It contained poison also, so it was wise to put it away. [10]
In an instant all the sycophants, who had lately been ready to lie for him, to forge for him, to pander for him, to poison for him, hasten to purchase the favor of his victorious enemies by accusing him. [5]
Longing is also a poison for a loving heart, and its antidote is good news. [10]
The wanderer who, a few years ago, had scattered her gold so readily and joyously for the pleasure of others certainly would not poison it. [10]
The recollection of a deep and true affection is rather a divine nourishment for a life to grow strong upon than a poison to destroy it. [6]

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