" On the table lay a narrow-bladed chisel, the lower portion of the bright steel discoloured with the dark stain of blood.

"This," he said, "will test nearly every poison known to our science; each poison discolouring for a time one or another of the various substances of which it is composed; and poison is perhaps the weapon least unlikely to be employed against you when known to be connected with myself, and, I will hope, to possess the favour of the Sovereign.

She swooned in her anguish, and lay back, pale and discoloured in the middle of the bed, without life or breath.

The eastern extremity of the northern banks, we found very difficult to make out, from the water being but slightly discoloured on it.