" <Deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal>.

Out of these, most cannot do any serious damage to human beings except for about four to five species which can be lethal.

They inject their prey with a highly lethal venom and, having no teeth, suck out the liquid from inside their prey.

He would go out of his way to avoid an appeal to lethal weapons.

"You remember what I said to you about your report at Christmas, Mike?" said Mr. Jackson, folding the lethal document and replacing it in its envelope.

scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate^. house of correction &c (prison) 752. goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner^; lyncher; hangman; headsman^; Jack Ketch.

Following him were Leon Coventry, huge and shy, and the lethal Boggs looking unhappy.

" It is generally believed that in the character of Prince Karol in her novel, "Lucrezia Floriani," published in 1847, Sand used that lethal weapon of revenge novelists possess, and portrayed or caricatured Chopin.

Once that most fierce and lethal of tropic snakes, the giant lythra, came out of the jungle and all down the street, the central street of Nen, and none of the Wanderers moved away from him, but they all played sonorously on drums, as though he had been a person of much honour; and the snake moved through the midst of them and smote none.

Darker still perhaps is the dreadful night, and more sickening the miasma, which lies around the opium creeks, multiplying and increasing and slowly sucking down into their slimy depths thousands upon thousands of those who dare to seek momentary relief from sorrow in its lethal stream.

At the end of that time it will be clear enough whether or no the best thing which we can provide for the unemployed is a lethal chamber.

And, since Manuel displayed an obstinate prejudice against any lethal plague, she put the puckerel curse upon Asmund, by which he was afflicted with all small bodily ills that can intervene between corns and dandruff.

I doubt whether in all the lethal apparatus that I saw in France I saw anything quite equal to the demoniac ingenuity of these massive guns.

A Colonel of Romance Race would have fallen on his sword at once (and borrowed something more lethal had it failed to penetrate).

It was perhaps natural, with a hearer evidently so impressionable to the lethal nature of; his topic, to take the most effective aspect of the matter.

I shut the lid down rather hastily; there was something rather sinister in that collection of lethal appliances.

In the first place, here at last was the real Lombroso criminal, the sub-human mattoid, devoid of intelligence, devoid of the faintest glimmering of moral sense, fit for nothing but the lethal chamber; compared with whom the British 'habitual' was a civilized gentleman.

" He looked about him keenly and continued: "The syringe and the rest of the lethal appliances and material have been taken away, I see.

All carried vacuum-flashlights in their overcoat pockets, and lethal-gas pistols, in addition to ordinary revolvers or automatics.

Get your lethal guns ready!

His mind, directing all, observing all, was not to be distracted by even so small a detail as any personal hand in the discharge of the lethal gas.

Neither Bohannan, Alden, nor Rrisa was watching the slow descent of the lethal gas.

All three had their eyes fixed on their own lethal-gas pistols and on their watches.

Save for a slight, saline tang to the airan odor by no means unpleasantnothing remained of the lethal gas.

In the road lay a couple of pigeons, farther on a sparrow, and still farther a sleeping dog, showed how complete had been the effect of the lethal pellets.