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Examples
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Incidentally, her method: the gift to Uncle Bakhat of a splendid new coat prudently steeped in poison.
Garden and Cosmos 2009
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'That night I slept on the floor of a captured Boer ambulance van, fitted up as a physic shop with shelves fitted with bottles mostly labelled poison.
From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers
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As soon as his colleagues had gone and he felt assured they were no longer within hearing, Hamar took a saucer from the mantelshelf, filled it half full of milk, and poured into it some colourless liquid out of a tiny phial labelled poison.
The Sorcery Club Elliott O'Donnell 1918
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A civil officer in company with the military was drowned, his carriage broken, and, chloride of lime being found in the carriage, one of the inmates was compelled to eat it till he vomited blood, which again confirmed the notion of poison.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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This will make the execution the more severe that their swords will be dipped in poison.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Sales have flat-lined, and to dieters everywhere the staff of life has come to equal unwanted carbs - otherwise known as poison.
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Yet, something given to us by NATURE or God if you believe and can be simply smoked or ingested after growing in the ground is treated like some kind of poison.
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She speaks with great empathy and compassion for others who are homeless, and asks that the general public not view them as "poison."
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He describes the curriculum at most journalism schools as "poison."
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They are growing up in a multicultural school, free from that kind of poison.
The ongoing discussion of Prof. Gates’ arrest « Dating Jesus 2009
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