The points of the arrows were poisoned, but their enemy had an antidote for it, which they instantly applied to the wounded part.

The fierce sun had not burned but bleached their skin; their blood was poisoned by the miasma the land breeze blew off at night.

On the other hand, the Entente has built on a foundation of shifting sand a Europe full of small States poisoned with imperialism and in ruinous conditions of economy and finance, and a too great Poland without a national basis and necessarily the enemy of Russia and of Germany.

Clouds become hostile airmen, stars are mistaken for airships and the cross-bars of bicycles are thought to be bombs; bridges have been blown up, telegraph and telephone wires cut in the middle of Stuttgart; spies have been shot and water supplies poisoned!

The poisoned-water-supplies lie deserves further attention.

The waters of the Mangfall had been poisoned by Russian spies, and everyone's life was in danger.

The Breslauer-Morgenzeitung for August 10th contains an announcement from the Breslau municipality warning the inhabitants that the waters of the Oder have possibly been poisoned, and appealing for every precaution to be taken before drinking from the town supply, till a fresh supply can be provided.

The war had lasted for four weeks, and although no rivers had been poisoned, the same could not be said of the currents of popular opinion.

But at the surfaces of things; we hear Of towns in flames, fields ravaged, young and old Driven out in troops to want and nakedness; Then grasp our swords and rush upon a cure That flatters us, because it asks not thought: The deeper malady is better hid; The world is poisoned at the heart.

And all the time the ears of the masses were being poisoned.

XI A POISONED SPRING

The boys were really poisoned, and whisky must be poured down their throats till stronger remedies arrived.

You've poisoned yourself with nothing more deadly than good Kentucky whisky!

And he smiled up at hersuch a smile as Meïamoun must have bent upon Cleopatra as he drained the poisoned cup.

He further says that he does not know if Lydenberg poisoned James Allerdyke.

He began to recall all that he had heard and read about people being suffocated in the mines; all the stories that had ever been told to him about miners being shut in by accident and poisoned with foul air, or rescued at the point of death.

The poisoned air was being drawn swiftly into the old mine, making a whistling noise as it crossed the sharp edges of the aperture.

The air was better in here, he was below the line of the poisoned current, and he soon revived, sat up, picked up his lamp, and looked around him.

The beast had been his friend and companion, not only in his daily toil, but here also, in the loneliness and peril of the poisoned mine.

He arose and moved up the chamber a little way, out of the current of poisoned air that still sifted in through the crevices of his rudely built wall.

Both were still feeble from recent illnesses and were without the power to resist successfully the effects of the poisoned atmosphere.

Then, creeping into the opening, he pulled the helpless man through with him into the old mine, and dragged him up the chamber out of reach of the poisoned current.

When the grooms found him he was lying on his back, legs in the air, blown up like a poisoned pup.

I believe those dashed cigars were poisoned.

His blood is of a yellowish colour, like those that have been bitten by vipers, and his gall flows as thick in him as oil in a poisoned stomach.