He was pounded with stones while the bystanders called out, "Kill the poisoner, the foreign devils' poisoner!"

The government used great vigilance to detect the poisoners, and suspicion at length fell upon a society of young wives, whose president appeared to be an old woman, who pretended to foretel future events, and who had often predicted very exactly the death of many persons.

They dreaded the Roman she-poisoners and witches, who, like Horace's Canidia, still performed horrid rites in graveyards and dark places of the earth.

You have done wrong to bring that poisoner here, my lord.

He knew more about cooking than all the chefs in Europe and taught my poisoner to make rations taste like food.

Queen: I have been thought a poisoner.

"We are assured," Madame de Sevigné writes, "that the gates of Namur, Antwerp, and other towns have been closed against the Countess, the people crying out, 'We want no poisoner here'!"