Poisoned Sentence Examples

Where's this poisoned tea?

They are great hunters and use small poisoned arrows to bring down their game.

According to others, he was poisoned by his physicians at the instigation of his son.

In the later form of the story Philoctetes was the friend and armour-bearer of Heracles, who presented him with his bow and poisoned arrows as a reward for kindling the fire on Mt Oeta, on which the hero immolated himself.

He was poisoned, and then strangled by a wrestler named Narcissus, on the 31st of December 192.

He was poisoned by his son Romanus in 959.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either the wife of Louis or the mother of the king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

He married Maud, heiress of Hugh, earl of Chester, and his son John inherited both earldoms. The son married Helen, daughter of Llewelyn, prince of Wales, by whom he was poisoned in 1237, dying without issue.

Killis, who caused him, it is said, to be poisoned.

The only victim of this plot was Ali, who died at Kufa in 661, of the wound inflicted by a poisoned weapon.

I.m also making a special poisoned batch to give back to the demons.

Over 100 persons fell ill after eating the poisoned beef.

After John Bell died, the witch claimed she had poisoned him.

They can be killed by spreading about cabbage leaves, &c., poisoned with Paris green.

The remaining portions of the pileus are then lightly pressed, as well as the central slices, between bibulous paper until dry, and the whole is then "poisoned," and gummed on a sheet of paper in such a manner as to show the under surface of the one and the upper surface of the other half of the pileus on the same sheet.

There appears, however, to be no truth in the report that Bayezid succeeded in bribing the pope to have Jem poisoned.

Three years later she was in the East with Germanicus, who died at Antioch in 19, poisoned, it was said, by order of Cn.

The power of this Idumaean family provoked popular risings and Antipater was poisoned.

The probability is that Abdarrahman was ill when returning from the frontier, that Moawiya sent him his own medical man, the Christian doctor Ibn Othal, and that the rumour arose that the doctor had poisoned him.

Some attribute his death to an accident met with in hunting; others believe him to have been poisoned.

It is said that Europeans who violated the prohibition have been poisoned.

At a later period he talked of "dying of rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole"; for some time, however, he was buoyed up by feeble hopes of a restoration to England.

A rumour went about that he had been poisoned by the cardinal Baldassare Cossa, impatient to be his successor, who succeeded him in fact under the name of John XXIII.

As late as the year 1900 Mr Albert Millican, while collecting orchids on the Opon river, a tributary of the Magdalena between Bogota and the Caribbean coast, was attacked by hostile Indians, and one of his companions was killed by a poisoned arrow.

The old tolbooth, in which William Maitland of Lethington, Queen Mary's secretary, poisoned himself in 1573, to avoid execution for adhering to Mary's cause, was demolished in 1819.

The execution of Watt gave to this trial a note of tragedy which was absent from that of certain members of the Corresponding Society, accused of conspiring to murder the king by means of a poisoned arrow shot from an air-gun.

In 43 B.C. Antipater was poisoned at the instigation of one Malichus, who was perhaps a Jewish patriot animated by hatred of the Herods and their Roman patrons.

She endeavoured to prevent the alliance between King Guntram and Childebert, which was cemented by the pact of Andelot; and made several attempts to assassinate Childebert by sending against him hired bravoes armed with poisoned scramasaxes (heavy single-edged knives).

Their chief weapons are poisoned arrows.

But many accidents have resulted from the arsenic being absorbed, and the patient thereby poisoned.

There followed the wholesale massacre of St Bartholomews St BarEve, in Paris and in the provinces; a natural con- thofomew, sequence of public and private hatreds which had August poisoned the entire social organism.

But Mozaffar lasted for a short time, and then died, poisoned, as it was said, by his brother Abdurrahman, called Sanchol, the son of Mansur by one of the Christian ladies whom he extorted for his harem from the fears of the Christian princes.

Some (e.g. star anise) have poisoned babies.

Later, when wounded by a poisoned arrow, Paris sought Oenone's aid but he died before she could give it.

Is the council tax going to be her poisoned chalice?

Bond is knocked out by a poisoned dart to the neck.

And because the church is not discerning, it is being poisoned with a deadly chemical that looks like living water.

Being handed the CEO job at the world's largest media company during an unprecedented advertising downturn might appear to be a poisoned chalice.

One of the earliest uses of biological weapons occurred in the 6th century BC when the Assyrians poisoned enemy wells with rye ergot.

He married Eurydice, who was fatally poisoned by a snake bite.

In the mean time we all breathe poisoned air and children grow flabby under house arrest.

As they both stand to share their uncle's fortune, Tony wonders if the bottle's poisoned.

They are then thought to have been poisoned by toxic fumes.

In May a young golden eagle whose nest was protected round-the-clock by volunteers became one of the victims when it was found poisoned.

After repeated molesting of the miller's wife and daughter, the miller's wife and daughter, the miller poisoned them.

This dispute poisoned his relationship with the then unknown newton, as the secretary repeatedly misrepresented hooke to newton.

That animals are deliberately poisoned, surgically mutilated, deprived of food and water is bad enough.

Another account relates how he poisoned himself by eating deadly nightshade, other less specific reports simply say that he died from poisoning.

Some may be poisoned; the beta amyloid peptide is a strong suspect.

Women's Editor Christen Pears reports Are we being poisoned by pesticides?

A poisoned rodent may well die in your building, under floorboards or in a wall cavity.

Former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko may have been poisoned with " radioactive thallium ", the toxicologist treating him disclosed.

One-third of the waters become wormwood (or poisoned, or radioactive ).

Eleanor, therefore, can hardly have been responsible for the death of this rival, and the romance of the poisoned bowl appears to be an invention of the next century.

It is only in very large doses that the voluntary muscles are poisoned, there being induced in them a tremor which may simulate ordinary convulsions.

Are they poisoned by substances around them, perhaps in senile plaques, the defining lesions of Alzheimer 's?

She was a simple-minded woman who poisoned her husband with arsenic in November 1846.

The puppies are poisoned with varying doses of toxic chemicals for a period of 15 weeks.

We were angry and hasty because we stifled in the darkness, in a poisoned and vitiated air.

One-third of the waters become wormwood (or poisoned, or radioactive).

Or, if they put out poison, and the cat eats the mouse, the cat can be poisoned.

In some bodies of water, fish and other aquatic life is so badly poisoned that they are unsafe for human consumption, containing heavy metals like mercury, chromium, manganese, and lead, or chemical substances like PCBs and pesticides.

Because your body has been poisoned with toxins that are now building up in your bloodstream much faster than you get rid of them.

Remember too, if your dog has a severe medication reaction and appears poisoned and your vet is not available, you may call the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center at 1-900-443-0000.

The elderly are the second most likely group to be poisoned.

People can be poisoned by fumes they inhale.

Children may be poisoned as a result of playing in contaminated soil.

A developing fetus can also be poisoned if a pregnant woman breathes CO gas.

People such as underground parking garage attendants who are exposed to car exhausts in a confined area are more likely to be poisoned by CO.

A family in Blanco, Texas poisoned what originally was thought to be a rodent that was making a mess in the family's barn.

In 1 457 King Ladislas died suddenly, and public opinion from an early period accused Podébrad of having poisoned him.

Tradition says he was ensnared and poisoned by Stephania, the widow of Crescentius.

In January or February 169 Verus died at Altinum, apparently of apoplexy, though some ventured to say that he was poisoned by Aurelius.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

To the Shiites he is a martyr, being believed to have been poisoned by Mamun.

Soon afterwards she poisoned Claudius and secured the throne for her son, with the intention of practically ruling on his behalf.

Laodice poisoned him and proclaimed her son Seleucus Callinicus (reigned 246-227) king, whilst her partisans at Antioch made away with Berenice and her son.

On arrival at the supreme Mongol court - either that on the Imyl river (near Lake Ala-kul and the present Russo-Chinese frontier in the Altai), or more probably at or near Karakorum itself, south-west of Lake Baikal - Andrew found Kuyuk Khan dead, poisoned, as the envoy supposed, by Batu's agents.

Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Welch poisoned the mind of Colonel Oglethorpe against the brothers for a time.

In Florence he entered the Society of Jesus, taking the habit in Rome in 1655; it was calumniously rumoured that he adopted this course in order to escape punishment for having poisoned his wife.

He is said to have been poisoned (December 29, 1606) by his chancellor, Mihaly Katay, who was hacked to bits by Bocskay's adherents in the market-place of Kassa.

His last years were harassed by ill-health and the turbulence of his grandson Archagathus, at whose instigation he is said to have been poisoned; according to others, he died a natural death.

When the newly elected successor to the throne, the highly popular prince Christian Augustus of Augustenburg, died suddenly in Skane in May 181o, the report spread that he had been poisoned, and that Fersen and his sister, the countess Piper, were accessories.

She was buried at St Denis, her funeral oration being pronounced by her friend Bossuet, and it was asserted that she had been poisoned by order of her husband.

He died in 93, poisoned, it was rumoured, by the emperor's orders.

During the 140 days of his imprisonment there he wrote the marvellous Iambes (in alternate lines of 12 and 8 syllables), which hiss and stab like poisoned bullets, and which were transmitted to his family by a venal gaoler.

It was named after the second wife of Jason, Glauce, who plunged into it to quench the fire of, the poisoned bridal garments given her by Medea.

Finally he retired to the Almoravid court at Fez, where he was poisoned in 1138.

Unfortunately he himself has been wounded in the fight, and that by a poisoned weapon; and none but the queen of 'Ireland, Isolt, or Iseult, possessed the secret of healing.

Ultimately, while assisting his brother-in-law in an intrigue with the wife of a neighbouring knight, Tristan is wounded by a poisoned arrow; unable to find healing, and being near to death, he sends a messenger to bring Queen Iseult to his aid; if successful the ship which brings her is to have a white sail, if she refuses to come, a black.

Two years later, on the 24th of February 1577, he died suddenly in his new prison at Orbyhus, poisoned, it is said, by his governor, Johan Henriksen.

The death of Barbara, five days after her coronation (7th of December 1550), under very distressing circumstances which led to an unproven suspicion that she had been poisoned by Queen Bona,.compelled Sigismund to contract a third purely political union with the Austrian archduchess Catherine, the sister of Sigismund's first wife Elizabeth, who had died within a twelvemonth of her marriage with him, while he was still only crown prince.

To account for this it is said that the blood of the race has become poisoned by the introduction of foreign diseases.

Benedict died at Perugia on the 7th of July 1304; if he was really poisoned, as report had it, suspicion would fall primarily on Nogaret.

In 1686 Dorothea persuaded her husband to bequeath outlying portions of his lands to her four sons; and Frederick, fearing he would be poisoned, left Brandenburg determined to prevent any diminution of his inheritance.

Elizabeth, fearless almost to a fault in face of physical danger, constant in her confidence even after discovery of her narrow escape from the poisoned bullets of household conspirators, was cowardly even to a crime in face of subtler and more complicated peril.

He is said to have poisoned his mother, though it is more probable that he merely imprisoned her to keep her out of his way.

Of these the Munshi, who inhabit the district nearest the junction of the Benue with the Niger, were long noted for their intractability and hostility to strangers, whom they attacked with poisoned arrows.

For some months the caliph was under this sons control; but the latter, who aimed at conciliating the people, speedily lost his popularity with the troops, and his father was able to get possession of his person and cause him to be poisoned (beginning of 1133).

Like other Egyptian sultans he made considerable use of the Assassins, 124 of whom were sent by him into Persia to execute Kara Sonkor, at one time governor of Damascus, and one of the murderers of Malik al-Ashraf; but they were all outwitted by the exile, who was finally poisoned by the Ilkhan in recompense for a similar service rendered by the Egyptian sultan.

After the sultans return they soon rebelled, but were again brought into subjection by Sheiks son Ibrahim; his victories excited the envy of his father, who is said to have poisoned him.

Not only was he declared to be the murderer of Essex, but he was directly charged with having poisoned Charles to obtain his crown.

He believed that he was poisoned by his son, who cannot, however, be accused of anything more than an eager expectation of his death.

A murder on the borders poisoned Scottish relations with England, and the death of Henry VII.

The legend that he was poisoned by order of Moawiya is without the least foundation.

Moawiya has been accused of having poisoned more than one of his adversaries, among them Malik Ashtar, Abdarrahman the son of the great captain Khalid b.

Sahl was defeated, and Abu`l-Saraya, no longer content to play a second part, poisoned his chief, Ibn Tabataba, and put in his place another of the family of Ali, Mahommed b.

He died at Bagdad and was said to have been poisoned by the Young Turks.

On the 13th of October 54 Claudius died, poisoned, as all our authorities declare, by her orders, and Nero was presented to the soldiers on guard as their new sovereign.

His first minister Shams ud-din was suspected of having poisoned Abagha, and was soon put to death.

He was found dead in the house of a confectioner in Kazvin, having left the world either drunk, drugged or poisoned.

This ruler was poisoned by the agency of conspirators, one of whom, Saiyid Murad, succeeded to the throne.

George of Podébrad has from the first frequently been accused of having poisoned him, but historical research has proved that this accusation is entirely unfounded.

The centre is directly poisoned by the circulation through it of opium-containing blood, and the patient's breathing becomes progressively slower, shallower and more irregular until finally it ceases altogether.

The castle surrendered in May 1573 and on the 7th or the 9th of June following Maitland died at Leith, there being very little evidence for the theory that he poisoned himself.

On Ptolemy's death, Antiochus repudiated Berenice and took back Laodice, who, however, at once poisoned him and murdered.

The indignation of the people at the death of Germanicus, and the suspicion that Piso had poisoned him, forced Tiberius to order an investigation.

They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines.

After unsuccessful attempts to rid themselves of the mice, the farmers appealed to the United States Biological Survey, and alfalfa hay poisoned with strychnia sulphate was used successfully in the Humboldt Valley in January 1908 and in the Carson Valley, where a similar plague threatened, in April 1908.5 Minerals.

In 66, Sassia induced her stepson Oppianicus to charge Cluentius with having caused the elder Oppianicus to be poisoned while in exile.

When the sophists are represented as conscious imposters who " poisoned and demoralized by corrupt teaching the Athenian moral character," he has, as has been seen, an easy and complete reply.

But even if it could be shown that Cluentius had bribed the jurymen, this did not prove that he had poisoned Oppianicus, although it supplied a sufficient reason for wishing to get him out of the way.