belladonna

• “She had read about some of them in her herbology book: a substance called belladonna, which women applied to their eyes to beautify the pupils and which could lead to blindness, and another one called arsenic, which women swallowed in order to improve their skin and which was fatal in large enough doses.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beauty

• “They call the belladonna Aaron's Beard in the country, you know; and it is true that the cattle, simple as they are, are never harmed by it; just because, though it is always in their path, they never stop and taste it.”

  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida

• “Other presses such as belladonna, for example, can pretty much only be found if you show up at a reading in New York, or you order a book directly from the series organizers.”

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• “The susbstance used to dilate pupils is a relative of the "belladonna" beautiful lady plant so called because the pupil dilation it causes makes people appear to be more beautiful.”

  A Lesson on Acetylcholine From a Simple Eye Exam

• “Botanists claim to recognize several species of the plant, and also to ally tobacco by a botanical consanguinity with other plants differing totally in appearance, properties and uses; connecting it with some containing powerful narcotic poisonous properties, such as belladonna, stramonium and hyoscyamus, and also with the innocent tomato and potato.”

  A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests In North Carolina. Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together with Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; with Statistics Exhibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the Western Counties, and Also in the Other Tobacco Producing Regions of the State, as Shown By Comparison of the Crop of 1880 with Those of Preceding Years

• “Its family is Solanaceae which has, like the Borgias, many toxic members, such as belladonna and black henbane, more suitable for a witches brew than a chef's.”

  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper

• “A tincture of belladonna and chloride, thirteen drops in hot water six times a day, was supposed to kill the germ.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deadly

• “You've either taken some belladonna or you're in love.”

  Fictionaut: The Seven-Pointed Star, part 1 of 2

• “I think it could be deadly night shade (or belladonna) which creates vivid hallucinations that are commonly described as very unpleasant and wicked delirium.”

  Think Progress » Gun Advocates Plan DC March On 15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing

• “Liz took the belladonna bundle and blew the smoke all over the body.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Darkest Edge of Dawn

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