Poisoned

Examples

• I reject counsel poisoned by insinuation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was poisoned by Agrippina, the mother of his adopted son, Nero, and a woman of great charm and force of character. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He poisoned himself in despair. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I had eaten with relish: the food was good--void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Scattered, disunited--the very air of the place poisoned with mystery and suspicion! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I should expect to be poisoned. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Poisoned, Amelia! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The people who have the worst cooks are always telling you they're poisoned when they dine out. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But, suddenly, this simple emotion of pleasure was tainted, poisoned by jealousy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Your mind is poisoned with French novels. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The bitterness of poverty has poisoned the life of the once cheerful and kindly woman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He assured me upon his honour that he was not poisoned, but died of a bad fever by excessive drinking. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They, their Excellencies, met her eyes in each line, mingling an evil potion that poisoned her very blood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Drawing the shaft far back he drove the poisoned missile straight into the heart of the great anthropoid. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You don't think I poisoned him! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Beware, cried the man, God hears you, and will smite your stony heart in his wrath; his poisoned arrows fly, his dogs of death are unleashed! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Tarzan fitted his bow with a poisoned arrow, but D'Arnot placed a hand upon his arm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I began to work in a carding-room soon after, and the fluff got into my lungs and poisoned me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If you don't turn off that abominable sheep-dog, said Lord Steyne, with a savage look over his shoulder at her, I will have her poisoned. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He argued with Henry that the dog had been already poisoned when he changed so, and sprang at him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned cauldron was discovered, and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my heart was poisoned with remorse. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I know how listlessly and wearily each of that wretched pair dragged on their heavy chain through a world that was poisoned to them both. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But we will not die in heaps, like dogs poisoned in summer-time, by the pestilential air of that city--we dare not go against the Plague! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Come, flame of gas, burning so sullenly above the iron gate, on which the poisoned air deposits its witch-ointment slimy to the touch! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It shows that he's run away from you; that Bertha's done her work and poisoned him thoroughly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• At a grand diplomatic dinner given by his chief, he had started up and declared that a pate de foie gras was poisoned. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Thus the melancholy retainer, as who should say, 'Come down and be poisoned, ye unhappy children of men! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But whether he did or not, the world believes that he somehow or other poisoned the man and that I winked at the crime, if I didn't help in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In advance were fifty black warriors armed with slender wooden spears with ends hard baked over slow fires, and long bows and poisoned arrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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