He felt that his sincere compassion for the oppressed, and his ardent desire to promote perfect justice, would serve him as a perpetual antidote against the poison of fear.

" Three days after, in celebrating the Holy Communion, Mr. Atkins stumbled in his speech, and then he and his companions knew the poison in his system was working.

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.

The woman raised the cup of poison to her lips.

If I had, I meant to drop the poison into one glass, and then fill them all up with the cordial.

What mortal was so cruel that could mix poison for thee, or who could give thee the venom that heard thy voice?

Wise Hannibal, when neither sea nor land Could save him from the Roman eagles, rent His soul with poison from imprisonment; And a snake's tooth cut Cleopatra's band.

My theory is that the prongs are hollow, like a hypodermic needle, and leave a drop or two of poison at the bottom of the wound.

"He spilled some of the poison on his hand as he lifted it to his mouth.

The hyenas and the jackals and the wolves represent the anarchists who are down on everybody in the show, who won't do a thing to help along and won't allow any other animal to do anything, and who seem to want to burn and slay, to carry a torch by night and poison by day, and want everything in the show to be chaos.

He was poisoned without a doubt, and has had a very narrow escape of his life.

There are three insidious evils that are creeping like a blood-poison through the body politic, threatening the very life of the Republic.

The venomous clamour of a jealous woman is a more deadly poison than a mad dog's tooth.

I have mentioned poison as my first thought.

[She taketh a vial of poison out of her pocket.

" "And," I said, "it contains a poison against which, had I drunk one-half the draught, no antidote could have availeda poison to which these keys only could have given access.

I know not how true the prevailing belief is, that some of these Obeah-men carry a drop of snake's poison under a sharpened finger- nail, a scratch from which is death.

It is further related that this was only one of the minor crimes attributed by history to Frédégonde the Terrible, who always carried a dagger or poison about with her.

Who has not seen the man, authorized by these laws to distribute the poison amongst his tippling neighbors, proof against all the shafts of truth, under the self-pleasing and self-satisfying consideration, that his is a lawful business.

The haggard witch, poring over her incantations by moon-light, no longer scatters her superstitious poison among her miserable neighbours, nor suffers for her crime.

They used a poison like the poison of snakes.

We refused this at first, but were told there was no danger, and that it was only precautionary, in case we intended any mischief to their lord, or should have brought poison along with us, as the fire would remove all evil.

A strange man that poor brother of mine, strong save when his foreign blood and foreign religion arose like poison within him and made him weak....

Davis had begun the debate on the 7th of May by a savage onslaught on "Squatter Sovereignty"a fallacy, he said, fraught with mischief more deadly than the fatal upas, because it spread its poison over the whole Union.

[Sidenote: B.C. 183 (a.u. 571)] ¶ He himself [i.e. Hannibal] died by drinking poison near Bithynia, in a certain place called Libyssa by name; though he thought to die in Libyssa his own proper country.