I went in from time to time, not to make large purchases, but mostly to make inquiries and to buy some blue vitriol, wire, or something of the kind.

He took down a jar marked Epsom salts, and found it full of Welsh snuff; the next, which was labelled cinnamon, contained blue vitriol.

At their last meeting she felt him more than life to her, and knew him lost, and the frenzy that makes a woman kill the man she loves or fling vitriol to destroy the beauty she cannot have for all hers possessed her lawless soul....

"I reckon he hates me," thought Hiram, pouring vitriol into his own wounds, "and I reckon he's got good cause to.

And Gervaise at once recognised the "vitriol" of the "Assommoir" in the poisoned blood which made his skin quite pale.