Borri

Even in the supermarket, Ruth Borri , a teacher at the Avalokiteshvara Buddhist Center in Denver, overhears aisle talk about Tebow.

Tim Tebow: Denver's New Favorite Mensch Ben Cohen 2011

It FEELS GOOD to screw the Frogs, Krauts, and Borri.

Smooting the Weasels, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I sat on them, with my back pressed into the corner, and opened the heavy little book to find chapter seventeen and read about the unfortunate Mr. Borri and the poisoned king.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

A physician as well as a supposed practitioner of magic arts, Borri was at that time a prisoner, wanted by the Catholic Inquisition, but the king offered the man sanctuary and promised him his freedom if he could find a cure.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

Unfortunately, concluded Ben, the discovery did poor Borri no good at all.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

In his distress the ailing monarch consulted with an Italian alchemist, Francesco Borri.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

Borri, Ben said, soon enough suspected a slow poisoning by arsenic, but for some weeks he could find no means by which the king could have been swallowing the poison.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

Borri tried and tried to understand the odd case but had no success for a long time.

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

He told me, The poisoners were renegade Jesuits, and to placate them, Leopold became a Jesuit too—and then, despite his first promise, he sent Borri right back to prison!

The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010

Borri pretends — is it not enough to make the clearest liquid in the world both seculent and mothery?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003