death-cup

I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom.

One More RIP Book....We Have Always Lived in the Castle Stephanie 2009

I like my sister Con - stance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom.

The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson Oates, Joyce Carol 2009

I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom.

Archive 2009-11-01 Stephanie 2009

Even Caesar himself had to fall at last, his strong soul perhaps not sorry to escape through his dagger-wounds from so pitiably small a world; and the poison in the death-cup of Socrates was not so much the juice of the hemlock as the venom of the gossips of Athens.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

And of all the crimes of which men of my colour stand attainted, the offering of this death-cup to our red brothers is, I think, the wickedest and the most contemptible.

The Hidden Children 1899

It is the active principle of the most deadly of all mushrooms, the _Amanita phalloides_, or death-cup fungus.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

By mistake, or by the contrivance of the Cardinal, who may have bribed this trusted agent, they drank the death-cup mingled for their victim.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

O'erthrow him in ruin and abject shame, * Make him drain the death-cup in fatal fray.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

So Gharib and Sahim and their hundred horse rushed upon the foe, and Gharib's wrath redoubled, and he reaped a harvest of heads slain, giving the champions death-cup to drain, till he won to Al-Hamal and saw Mahdiyah among the captives.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

It presents a rather attractive appearance, being rather large, and having a glistening white cap with a long stem, around which there may always be seen a distinct collar; on carefully removing the soil from around its roots, it will be seen that its stem is surrounded just below the surface of the earth by a sheath-like structure, the so-called "death-cup," which, together with the peculiarities already mentioned, clearly stamp this mushroom as being one of the most deadly of all known natural objects.

Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896