Poisons
['pɔɪzn]
Examples
- There is white lead and red lead, and verdigris, and gamboge, and twenty other poisons in those colour cakes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She excited the suspicions of public librarians by asking for works on poisons. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If I had wanted to use anything save narcotic medicines that were poisons in themselves, I would not have administered any of those. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Who can be worse than a wife who encourages a lover, and poisons her husband's mind against his relative? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Wickedness spoils and poisons all pleasant things. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some said he was an alchemist trying to turn base metals into gold, some that he was discovering new poisons, some frankly believed that his learning had turned his mind and made him mad. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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