The people thought that if the person who took the poison died, he was guilty, but if he was not guilty he would live.

Please do not leave us," begged the other prisoners as the poor woman prisoner got ready to drink the poison.

"It contains a subtle poison.

And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it.

She has brought poison; she has brought glassesthree glasses, for three persons, but only two are on the scene, and so she fills but two.

And the boy having gone out, and stayed for some time, came, bringing with him the man that was to administer the poison, who brought it ready pounded in a cup.

Theophrastus speaks of a poison prepared from aconite, which could be moderated in such a manner as to have effect in two or three months, or at the end of a year or two years; and he also relates, that Thrasyas had discovered a method of preparing from other plants a poison which, given in small doses, occasioned a certain but easy death, without any pain, and which could be kept back for a long time without causing weakness or corruption.

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

She sold the poison which from her acquired the name of Aqua della Toffana (it was also called Acquetta di Napoli, or Acquetta alone), but she distributed her preparation by way of charity to such wives as wished to have other husbands.

Well, Phoebus, well, drink on, I say, drink on; But when thou dost ungorge thee, grant me this, Thou pour thy poisons on the head of John.

Poison came, Bion, to thy mouththou didst know poison.

"Hast thou swallowed the ninety-nine poisons?" "Ninety-nine times each," said the student.

The principle of the chemical treatment is to use a poison which will kill the superficial spores of the smut and not materially injure the germinating power of the seed.

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

Their venomed tongues are quivering and ears before them stand, To show how slanderous hearts can spread their poison o'er the land.

I have none to sheathe in my breast, or empty my full veins: Here's no wall or post which I can soil with my bruis'd brains; First will I therefore say two or three creeds and Ave Marys, And after go buy a poison at the apothecary's. FUL.

Labat says, that Tofania distributed her poison in small glass phials, with this inscriptionManna of St. Nicholas of Bavi, and ornamented with the image of the saint.

But I to have him instant by the neck and the body, and brake him, so that he died at once; and I cast him to the earth, and gave help to Mirdath, that I draw the poison from the wounds.

A Rampant Virginia editor proposes to kill off the Yankees by putting poison in chewing-tobacco, so that we shall meet mortality in mastication, fate in fine-cut, and perdition in the soothing plug!

She had inadvertently drunk out of a bowl which the king had prepared for Hamlet, in case that being warm in fencing he should call for drink: into this the treacherous king had infused a deadly poison, to make sure of Hamlet, if Laertes had failed.

"I knew just what poison the phial had held, and lost no time in my tests.

But she had soon perceived that all this liquor served, on the contrary, to keep up his health and spirits and his sarcastic humor, and she had left off making him presents, seeing that he throve on what she had hoped would prove a poison to him.

Some of them, who are great villains, are said always to carry poison with them, that if taken prisoners, they may swallow it to procure sudden death, and to avoid torture.

In the glass he discovered poison, and as the same poison was found in madame's laboratory, there was no doubt of her guilt.

The vegetable poisons, like the animal ones, produce more sudden and dangerous effects, when instilled into a wound, than when taken into the stomach; whence the families of Marfi and Psilli, in antient Rome, sucked the poison without injury out of wounds made by vipers, and were supposed to be indued with supernatural powers for this purpose.