| 单词 | poison |
| 例句 | It’s enough to turn the ice cream to poison in my stomach. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was common. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The poison forms a tenacious film over the leaves and bark. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How I hated myself, thwarted, poisoned and tortured myself, made myself old and ugly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a widespread belief that Jews poisoned wells and kidnapped children to use in ritual murders. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When these reserves of fat are drawn upon the poison may then strike quickly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I’ve had enough poison for one trip. Now, can you hide us in your Death Mist, or not?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The rain of August 10 resulted in such a heavy fish kill throughout the river that few remained to become victims of the next surge of poison into the stream, which occurred on August 15. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They had been immune from cats, from traps, from poison and from Jody. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the surgeons believed that infections came from foul air, called miasma, which contained poisons given off by rotting plant or animal material. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It seems he tried to poison himself by putting paint on his brushes and eating it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “He said we can’t hide from our fears. We have to be able to talk about them, or else they’ll fester like poison, eating us from the inside.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There’s poison oak on this island and I don’t want us to get it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His father explained to Joe what poison was and warned him to always stay away from this kind of snake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachel had already flown away with her devil saviour, and I was nailed down in Bulungu, since my body was still sunk so deep in poison it couldn’t bear up to many more mosquito bites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could believe it would heal anything, even Thalia’s poisoned tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z For their brief stay in civilization the Eskimos were rewarded with a taint of poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “They say I put poison in a fish, kill that cat.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizabeth had a cheesecake from the bakery, so I guess she thought I’d poison her dead if I made the dessert. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “But from a rat’s point of view, poison is objectionable. A Chairman has to see all sides to a problem.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The day after next the truck would come with its poison gas, and that would be the end of all their plans. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Kermit then hopped out of the canoe—never certain if he was going to be greeted with a poison arrow shot by a hidden Indian. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z We poison the gnats in a lake and the poison travels from link to link of the food chain and soon the birds of the lake margins become its victims. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Of course, Abnegation turned out to be no better, in some ways. It seems there’s no escaping the reach of genetic damage. Even the Abnegation leadership was poisoned by it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She was ugly and had spite enough to poison the whole town. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood, leaving her nauseated from the poison of her own body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Any of us could be poisoned at any time,” Piper agrees. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On occasion tremors shook his whole body — tremors of the sort now made all too familiar by the sight of birds poisoned by DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Jinny knew from books what snakes could do, what the poison in their fangs could do. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She looked at it like she was afraid it was poisoned. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In treated fields the grasses will inevitably carry residues of heptachlor in one of its forms, and if the residues are eaten by the cows the poison will appear in the milk. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sharp, full of the poisoned admiration they felt for him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Like Mithridates with his poison, you could even break your bones on purpose, put your arm in a drawer and slam it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And with her father, her brooding watchfulness sharpened into poison. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They followed the goddess’s dusty footprints through the poison flowers, deeper into the fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately the poison ichor was flowing all around him now, making the ground steam and the air burn. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But by now, I am used to drinking poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As many examples show, the poison is carried in by rains and runoff from surrounding lands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Chiron, you couldn’t have had anything to do with poisoning Thalia's tree!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The answer, I knew, lay in the discovery of the poison vial The knowledge of it put my father in danger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Soon after she’d landed on the Argo II, her pegasus Scipio had collapsed, overwhelmed by poisoned claw marks from a gryphon attack the night before. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This ability to learn is what makes poisoning rats so difficult. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She turned up a day late, told how the apple had come to be poisoned, and went back to her own concerns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo was even more upset by the possibility that someone had poisoned his squadron again, and he came bustling fretfully to Yossarian for assistance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Might be food poisoning,” Dimple said, her arm around Rishi’s waist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Drifting arsenic dusts from blueberry lands have spread over neighboring farms, contaminating streams, fatally poisoning bees and cows, and causing human illness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Was it the same poison that spoilt Dad's incredible present? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But the greatest grief is this: Your brother, Laertes, and Prince Hamlet have slain each other with poisoned swords. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She did not know that the poison in his body would kill her and her children as well. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The family was convinced that he had been poisoned, but there was never an investigation: “Back then, everyone covered these things up. The undertakers. The doctors. The police.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If Henry had been suffering from poison ivy, hay fever, rheumatism, pinkeye, we would have been in luck but the only painkiller they had was Excedrin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “After the poison left him, his wounds healed almost immediately.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z But he said that is normal for radiation poisoning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Joe from Paris has made a poison that will seem to be a Congolese disease, a mere African death for Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That may not be quite as moronically negligent as tipping hundreds of gallons of poison into a wilderness stream, but it is certainly in the right spirit. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Salim doubled over with groans and writhed like he had been poisoned. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost at once production workers began to exhibit the staggered gait and confused faculties that mark the recently poisoned. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic—the alkaloid rarely kills outright. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether it is from hunger, poison, or sickness, all I know is that I am miserable. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Maybe they knew how people in the Overland tried to trap, poison, and kill off all the rats aboveground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It snapped its jaws together until its mouth was a mess of green blood, yellow foamy poison, and splintered weapons. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well,” she reasoned, “like most murderers I’m full of regret. If we give them a proper burial I’ll feel less guilty about poisoning them.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It’s like giving her the exact recipe to poison me in the most painful way possible. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “But the Master was going to poison him! Perhaps it’s the opposite. Perhaps he was going to say don't give it to him.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Techniques were developed in eastern Australia for rendering abundant and starchy, but extremely poisonous, cycad seeds edible, by leaching out or fermenting the poison. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The tears ran hot down my face, and as they did, the smell of poison filled my nose. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Drugs were never in my future, even if I had a mother who shot up that poison like her life depended on it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Having said this he took his tail in his claws, and pulled the poison war spike from its tip. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In Michigan, eggs taken from the oviducts of robins dead of DDT poisoning showed concentrations up to 200 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Damage to the nervous system is not confined to acute poisoning; there may also be delayed effects from exposure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A few people even imagined they smelled poison smoke and saw fire caused by the Martians’ heat ray. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In other words, the body took its own measures to rid the humors of poisons and set them in balance once again; the doctor’s job was to coax the body along in this process. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z "Yes, but this poison smells and tastes like flowers," I say to the queen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Still—though it would be insane, I knew, to mention it at that moment—it was possible that he had food poisoning or appendicitis or something. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.’ Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He looked past his pearl, and he saw that the swelling was going out of the baby’s shoulder, the poison was receding from its body. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and, going to the bay where Scylla bathed, she poured into it the baleful liquid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z These treetop feeders are affected either directly by eating poisoned insects or indirectly by a shortage of food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She could create compresses to draw out the poison in snake bites. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Still we cannot live with swarms of ants, so with poison spray I “do them in.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z James Shoun and his brother denied any wrongdoing, and White could not prove who was responsible for the poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “When winter comes they take their own cats indoors for safety, then they put out dishes of poisoned food for the strays.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Or they used a poison that paralyzed the fish, making it easy to scoop them out of the water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I thought it was a cramp, that perhaps I had poisoned myself with the algae. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d learned the trick from an East Stave magician with a fire-breathing act that had run for years before the man had accidentally poisoned himself by ingesting kerosene. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And then he had to either drink the poison or own up.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Just when I thought he seemed a little better, when I thought he might be inching his way back to me, here is proof of how deep Snow’s poison went. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Doc said he didn’t see how I’d made it without bleeding and a good emetic. Says I’m still weak because I didn’t get all the poisons out of my body.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And if he had a poisoned pin, wouldn't it have been braver of him to use it? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Purebom were notorious for offering poisoned wine to those they thought dangerous, but they had not given Dany so much as a cup of water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hazel accidentally gave herself the Heimlich maneuver with the pommel of her sword and curled on the deck, moaning and coughing up the taste of katobleps poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But the monster looked down at her—almost in contempt—and spit poison directly in her face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He pointed out that the rapidity with which poisons can spread throughout the entire body fitted in with the idea that the blood is continually circulating. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The sort that makes people want to pick up venomous snakes and drink poison to be nearer to their God. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Not everyone was attentive; one juror, as though poisoned by the numerous spring-fever yawns weighting the air, sat with drugged eyes and jaws so utterly ajar bees could have buzzed in and out. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so poisoned and malicious, even a son of the sea god couldn’t control it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But that would be stooping to her level, and I’m sure that using her own poison against her would cause at least a little of it to fall back inside me as well. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Now the sweet, lingering memory of it soured into poison on my tongue. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z There's my dad, never knowing or doing as much as he should but trying to fix the poison all the same. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My imagination told me that my father was trying to poison me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The nurse went on to tell Pa that more than a dozen girls died that day from food poisoning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the candlelight it looked as dark as the wine that had poisoned Joffrey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As the poison engulfed him, the miniature tornado spun faster, repelling the clouds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She said nothing—what was there to say?—but she stood beside Loki’s head, with tears in her eyes, and caught each drop of poison as it fell from the snake’s fangs into her bowl. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He fought it more weakly, for hate was seeping all through his body, poisoning every nerve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Toxic amounts of cobalt and aluminum saturated the earth, poisoning the plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I spend some time then scrubbing the floor where the invasion took place, getting rid of the smell of poison. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Lady got her share of the poison when she ate the birds who had eaten the DDT-killed insects in Chile. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The soil of a large proportion of the land planted to tobacco has been subjected to “cumulative and well-nigh permanent poisoning,” according to Dr. Satterlee. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I had heard of runaway slaves starving before they reached freedom, or poisoning themselves because they were as ignorant as I was about which wild plants were edible. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He glared at the poison flood encroaching from all sides. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The political deal Jefferson described would never go down in Virginia, where assumption was regarded as a “fatal poison” and the Potomac location “of but little importance” in comparison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t have seen the Master put poison in the wine otherwise. Pan, that was the Tokay he asked the Butler about! They’re going to kill Lord Asriel!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One died of car accident, one from rheumatic heart, one was poisoned. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The skeleton warrior’s right foot and hand were slowly dissolving from poison. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Of course, choosing between two boxes of breakfast cereal is a little different from deciding if a mushroom will poison you. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The roots of the cassava, a plant in Africa, contain the poison cyanide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If they did he would know that they knew that it was poisoned. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s the poison icing on the lousy cake. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Piper remembered what Hercules had told them: his first family dead, his second wife dead after being tricked into poisoning him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not corrosive. I think it was meant to either suffocate or poison us.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Sampson was despicable, and he hated us, too, but hate alone didn’t create poison in bedside water tumblers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Well, there may be a poison that distils itself out of good things; in an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Speed, some poison in the leaf, the tongue, the tail? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z No, it had been the queen who poisoned him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We bite into them together, as if ingesting an enemy’s secret poison. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z What makes one person allergic to dust or pollen, sensitive to a poison, or susceptible to an infection whereas another is not is a medical mystery for which there is at present no explanation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Had we but spoken after my father’s death, he would know that I had seen evidence—the poison vial—that could convict Claudius, bringing a just revenge that would leave Hamlet’s own hand unbloodied. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “We can use poison foxglove or sleeping tonics if I can manage to make it into an aerosol,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I avoid the well: in our old town, there was sickness — they said that we poisoned the well. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Usually Toby showed up at his apartment, rubbing at his stomach or arm like he’d run through a patch of poison ivy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She’d heard some Healers could match one person’s blood to another’s, but if it was done incorrectly, it was as good as poisoning the patient. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And suppose the purchase of the poison could be traced to him? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They were going to find Adiah, help her get rid of the splendor poisoning her body, and possibly stop the killing that had plagued Lkossa for almost a century. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When a small barefooted boy was bitten by a rattlesnake, it was her duty to suck his toe to draw the poison out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After I check it for poison, of course. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Celaena sniffed the water goblet again, racing through a list of odorless poisons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t take that horrible stuff. It’s poison, it’s poison.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, okay. Well, you can’t even call in that favor. The rules specify that no animals may drain the poison. Apparently, it can turn them into huge monsters that eat everything around them.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Curley Johnson’s widow, meanwhile, was sure that her husband had been murdered—intentionally poisoned by Hale and his henchmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A tiny bit of the poison had found shelter from the fire in a new place: the statue of Shiva who had once crouched openmouthed behind it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For each man a poison drifting out of the sky carried a death sentence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He willed the poison to recede, creating a small path of retreat along the edge of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Denna shrugged and headed back into the trees for more firewood and I began the elaborate guesswork of how much denner it would take to poison a five ton lizard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Tastes worse than poison,” he sputtered, swallowing it only after I promised to reward him with a cookie. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I knew we had potassium in the kitchen and suddenly I knew that if I were writing a story about a Communist cook, I’d have him poison his foreign employers with potassium. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s very nice, Harry. I tasted it. No poison, I promise. Chicken with orzo and a touch of cilantro. Malcolm made it. I just found it in the fridge.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Yes, your poisons. Are you my apprentice or not?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Those cow monsters...the katoblepones that poisoned you...I had to destroy them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Something about getting chased by a large dragon lady with poison swords made it real hard to relax. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She began to lie awake listening for the awful sound, until finally, she knew she must send the child away— anywhere, just so she was not breathing this poison air. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z If, however, something destroys this enzyme or interferes with its action, the person exposed to malathion receives the full force of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He says they certainly didn't poison her, or anything like that, but his personal belief is that there was some funny business—that she died as the result of neglect on their part. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “I was told to sew this dress with pockets that can conceal weapons and poisons and other little necessities. We’ll make sure that’s done while still showing you to great advantage.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “They weren’t after the memory serum. They were after poison—death serum. So that they could kill a bunch of important government people and start a war.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They were really big pieces of blue canvas, tied together with ropes to hold in the poison fumes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each winter she would accumulate more of the poison in her body tissues. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The poison chokes my veins like a vise. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Yeah. And I put special poison in one of the loaves, that only affects fourteen-year-olds,” Luke said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Rumor began to spread that he was being poisoned by his new wife. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It's disgusting, the way the Germans take our lovely things and poison them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “And poison was not the only thing it purged.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z These, the regular injections of poison I was gifted from strangers, were definitely the worst things about wearing a headscarf. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z To which my answer is, Oh pish, sir, ’tis a tale of poison, escape, and desperate flight; surely of no interest to thee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Georgie backed away from the soap as if it were poison. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In this effect, the organic phosphorus compounds resemble the alkaloid poison muscarine, found in a poisonous mushroom, the fly amanita. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Arguments about going hungry, dying, bombs, fire extinguishers, sleeping bags, identity cards, poison gas, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “She remembered putting something in her mistress’s cocoa that turned out not to be sugar, but a lethal and little-known poison,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Thus Quintilian assumes the lawyer will appeal to what we might call stereotypes: ‘It is easier to believe brigandage of a man, poisoning of a woman.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It reminds me of how I felt after being poisoned. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I can’t tell him yet his poison was the deadliest ever created, but once I get us out of this, I will tell him how truly brilliant he is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “A stone taken from the stomach of a goat, which will protect from most poisons.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Rowan was more worried about that than the poisons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Another wasted chance running like poisoned water under Africa, curling our souls into fists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a guide who’d taught them how to spot poison ivy and look for water and find shelter, and Hazel had been too busy dreaming of centaurs to pay attention. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “I feel like the fire and the poison are connected somehow,” said Mini, chewing on the pencil. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Frank racked his brain, but it was hard with the voices screaming in his head and the katobleps poison making him dizzy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They complained about black magazines never having natural-haired women in their pages, about drugstore products so poisoned by mineral oil that they could not moisturize natural hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Germans, it turned out, had poisoned the river shore with an yperite mixture—more commonly known as mustard gas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It seemed the effect of the brand flies’ poison still lingered in the sky god’s system. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z This was something else: poison in the dark, a knife thrust to the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Annoyed, Harry uncorked the poison he had taken from Slughorn’s desk, which was a garish shade of pink, tipped it into his cauldron, and lit a fire underneath it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z One woman told him she had set several hens after the surrounding land had been covered with poison, “and for reasons she did not understand very few young were hatched or survived.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, men! men!” and there was no more poison left. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t afford to get sun poisoning out here. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as strong as poison and for once I didn’t fight it down or try to reshape it as something polite. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A poisoned silence floated through the rooms like a big fishnet that Violet alone slashed through with loud recriminations. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As he delivered his poison against the Jews, the Japanese government, and the United States, he was oddly frisky, as if he’d just become aware that he was free. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If there were only some wine, some poison, that would give him oblivion, that would make him forget that would make him sleep and never awaken! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But now that she could see again, watching him die slowly from gorgon’s blood poison and being unable to do anything about it—that was the worst curse of all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You are welcome to all my confidence that is worth having, Jane; but for God’s sake, don’t desire a useless burden! Don’t long for poison—don’t turn out a downright Eve on my hands!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A large store of proteins and sugars must be present to mop up the poison and wring it from the body. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “When he gets honorary degrees from other places, perhaps they give him fancy robes and he keeps them here for dressing up....Pan, do you really think it’s not poison in that wine?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they’d already learned about the basilisks’ poison and fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But rumor had it that she had mistakenly been poisoned in her father’s stead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm forced to stop as my body convulses, trying desperately to rid itself of the poisons I've been sucking in during the attack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I see the fearsome face of Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, who murdered his father and married his mother, my dear queen Gertrude, whom he poisoned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At one point he accused his wife of trying to poison him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Already there are disturbing records of heavy mortality among more than 20 other species of ground-feeding birds whose food — worms, ants, grubs, or other soil organisms — has been poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And I felt angry and said Help who? thinking we’re the ones who need help if we were going to die in the woods from mushroom poisoning. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Like billboards whose occupants wore gas masks and reminded passersby that poison gas from Hitler’s Nazi Germany was still a very real threat. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “All I can tell you is that the Dust hunters are as frightened of it as if it were deadly poison. That is why they imprisoned Lord Asriel.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “A desert lizard. The poison from its mouth is lethal.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “She was poisoning the mice in her basement with the chocolates you gave her,” I shot right back. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If I go to bed I’ll only have to get up again and I can’t sleep in a place where there’s a river sending poison to us in mist and fog. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He was fastidious about his fine black suit and stovepipe hat, extracting lint from the fabric and glaring at it as if it were a poison spider before flicking it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “The poison doesn’t take effect for at least twelve hours,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z How do you know which trees have fruit that is good for you and which fruit will pioson poison you? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In the version I tell, she’s a mix, like Mithridates who drank all that poison so it wouldn’t hurt him while he was exiled, and then returned and killed everyone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Is poison water. Is bad water from the ditch that make my baby belly swell so,” says Marie, Lagurie’s woman, carrying her youngest on her hip, her child sad with bellyache. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Boomer and I duck beneath the wire and weave between the trunks, keeping clear of the patches of poison oak. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Can’t you just cast a spell and make the poison ivy go away?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The poison might be a defense against being eaten, or it might just be one of the chemicals the fungus needs to do its work that happens to be toxic to humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ahead, the far shore glimmered with greenish light, the color of poison. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There was a magic in living through that chemical poison, and Mom was the first one to realize it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I wonder if you can feel poison in your blood? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The poisoned wine was leaking from the broken cask into the dirt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z One thing that is interesting is that lots of poisons taste sweet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And the early stages of these fishes, even more than the adults, are especially susceptible to direct chemical poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Another man shouted, “Or poison his wife’s dog.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Such subterranean tunnelers as shrews and moles capture them in some numbers, and then perhaps pass on the poison to predators such as screech owls and barn owls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nobody knew anything for sure yet, but it looked like Charlie might have died from alcohol poisoning or asphyxiating on his own vomit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “You have five minutes to reach the blue door before the poison will kick in.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Her brave winged friend dying from poison, his muzzle in her lap, looking at her trustingly as she raised her dagger to end his misery . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Years later, she might have recognized anger’s place in her life to be like that of a poison color in needlework — Callie could have told her this. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead earthworms had been seen in numbers after a gentle rain; probably the robins had fed on the poisoned worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You’ll need a note from your parents before I can sell poison to you,” he said plainly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And before Bigheart disclosed critical information about the murders to Vaughan—and before he died of suspected poisoning at the hospital in Oklahoma City—he had sought a “certificate of competency” from authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly some of the earthworms themselves succumb, but others survive to become “biological magnifiers” of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A dozen fresh basilisks fell out of his hair, turning the grass to poison yellow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Right to the point, eh? Okay, sure I poisoned the tree. £o what?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The poison of greed was already creeping into the innocent and laudable merchandising agreement. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the poison traveling through his veins and attacking his heart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Animals will sometimes recover from swainsonine poisoning after they stop eating contaminated forage, but only if they are in fairly robust condition to begin with. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “After the poison left him, his wounds healed almost immediately.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “She has poison ivy all over her arms and legs,” my mother informs me, holding open the back door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “We know the scene of the crime,” Brinker went on, “high in that . . . that funereal tree by the river. There wasn’t any poison, nothing as subtle as that.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The poison is cutting off oxygen to my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “We have different training exercises. Sometimes deathball—um, which is like paintball, except with... you know, poison and acid and fire balls. Sometimes we do chariots and gladiator competitions, sometimes war games.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact he was afraid of the young man’s great popularity, thinking that he might win the people over to make him king, and he invited him with the idea of poisoning him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he opened his arms and the two men said goodbye in a tight knot, free at last of the hatred and rancor that had poisoned their lives for so many years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can precipitate acute poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Be careful, kid. There’s poison ivy along the bank. Let’s wade downstream and get out at that clearing.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She referred to it as nature’s fail-safe, as if that could draw the poison from the sting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Even the ones that don’t poison us are closely linked to death and decay. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As the habit of killing grows — the resort to “eradicating” any creature that may annoy or inconvenience us — birds are more and more finding themselves a direct target of poisons rather than an incidental one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Each of these recurrent exposures, no matter how slight, contributes to the progressive buildup of chemicals in our bodies and so to cumulative poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Heck, chasing poison cows through Venice had been more appealing than this place. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He said he was suffering from ptomaine poisoning—but his symptoms indicated a nervous collapse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was happening slowly, but there could be no doubt—the Fleece’s magic was seeping into the tree, filling it with new power and expelling the poison. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps I will die quietly of blood poisoning and avoid the kerosene treatment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “No, outside this funnel web are scores of spinners ready to repair a hole and attack with poison fang. If we flee “upward, they will leap on us from above,” whispered Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I can remove this poison from your body.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He’s not sick, he got alcohol poisoning because he can’t handle real liquor. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This is poison that I hold, she thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She knew the bush with red berries that were probably poison. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He became ill, first with food poisoning, then with pleurisy. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of her eye, Aru saw a giant wave of rising poison liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Even the physicians themselves may be in some danger, unless they wear rubber gloves in handling the victims of poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then it turned out the purple flowers were called poison kisses, and Arya got a rash on her arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Who knew better how poisonous the soil was in Weep than she who had been poisoning it for ten long years? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He stood panting, his ear close to the panel, and a hysterical sickness poisoned him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Any number of things could cause this condition, such as poor diet, excess drinking, poison, or a dog bite, to name just a few. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Instead, Hale intended to use one of his other primary methods—a batch of poisoned moonshine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t break the vial of deadly poison. Man, I’m glad you said that. Never would have occurred to me.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z These may be cases of secondary poisoning, caused by eating birds or mice that have accumulated insecticides in their livers or other organs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “This is so much better than that thing drenched in butter that I could hardly finish at the restaurant. And you know we can’t get food poisoning because the frying kills the germs,” she added. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In its shape, size, and smallest detail it was like the vials of poison I had seen in Mechtild’s cabinet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I climb under the blankets, sure this is what it must feel like to be poisoned. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Ant mounds on lawns or playgrounds may create a situation where children are likely to be stung, but this is hardly an excuse for drenching millions of acres with poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He could still feel the gorgons’ claws pressing into his arms and smell their snaky breath—like dead mice and poison. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “But no one has seen them poisoned, so you can’t prove the skepticism.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I can’t sit in here and watch them give him poison!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Tell Burt to confine his observations and reports to the experimental data. I won’t have him poisoning you against me. I can handle the drinks.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Fill themselves up with poison so nothing will eat them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa fears that this will make her a target for the soldiers who want to rid Cambodia of outside ethnic poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes when they got too big a bait of it alone, it poisoned them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z In many places it had come before them, poisoning the well for their own true tale. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I looked around the forest for one of the medicinal leaves that Grandfather had said remove poison from the body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z By the time of Stepson’s death, scientists had devised numerous tools to detect poison in a corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The king had vaguely hinted at some sort of issue with rebels poisoning their food stores, but the details were murky enough to suggest that the truth was buried somewhere else. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Very little research has been done to determine the effects of low levels of these poisons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos," shouts Hitler. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “While we're here on our own, do you think you could stop looking at me as if you wanted to poison me all the time? Could that be arranged?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He comes back moments later and reports that a family, a doctor from Phnom Penh with his wife and their three children, have committed suicide by swallowing poison. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “C’mon. Let’s go inside and pray your grandma hasn’t decided to slip some poison on my plate.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A shrill cry rang out in the night; and he felt a pain like a dart of poisoned ice pierce his left shoulder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z What usually results is a poisoned environment, a lethal trap in which not only the resident populations succumb but those who come in as migrants as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He grabbed Stheno’s platter, scattering poisoned Cheese ’n’ Wieners, and slashed Riptide across Euryale’s waist, cutting her in half. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Considering that the last place her class went to on a field trip was a museum of lunch boxes, a poison volcano sounded way cooler. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The bag had once contained an insecticide called parathion, one of the organic phosphates; tests established death by parathion poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the bad kind of crying, though, the kind that makes me feel like a black fog has entered my body and is poisoning me from the inside out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The process of eating poison to build up immunity. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In this, the government was successful, for the riots poisoned the views of some whites who might otherwise have been sympathetic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not realistic to rely on a food system that poisons the planet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He wondered if gorgon blood could cure basilisk poison... The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Without a normally functioning liver the body would be disarmed — defenseless against the great variety of poisons that continually invade it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Garfield's abscesses and worsening condition were signs that poor treatment had led to blood poisoning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “How well you read me, you witch!” interposed Mr. Rochester: “but what did you find in the veil besides its embroidery? Did you find poison, or a dagger, that you look so mournful now?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But in July 1923, before she had enacted these changes, she, too, died of suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What you do not smell is called iocane powder. It is odorless, tasteless and dissolves immediately in any kind of liquid. It also happens to be the deadliest poison known to man.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “That poison,” Lyra said, turning back to the Gallivespians, “in your spurs, I mean, is it deadly? Because you stung my mother, Mrs. Coulter, didn’t you? Will she die?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Just a coincidence. They didn’t know I was poison yet.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The giant slammed her in the ribcage so hard that strands of her jellyfish hair came loose and drifted through the poisoned water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I looked into their eyes and saw sincerity and wanted to say: “Don’t you know you are prattling the racist poison?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One victim who accidentally spilled a 25 per cent industrial solution on the skin developed symptoms of poisoning within 40 minutes and died before medical help could be obtained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Wait. If the fire and poison can’t get out of this room, why has the entire tourism office been evacuated?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They dodged poison spray like they'd been training for this all their lives, which of course they had. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Horatio’s words filled my veins with sorrow and touched my heart like the quickest poison, bringing blackness like the oblivion of death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Do you want to poison him with that cheap store cake.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The conditions usually responsible for these losses in Oklahoma were those made familiar by repetition over the years: the application of insecticides to crops, a heavy rain, and poison washed into the ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “They tried to poison you?” a girl with chipmunk cheeks asks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were careful not to touch it, for the sap was poison. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We wanted to avoid the low standards and cultural poison of a world that had lost its way. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z "He thought his friends were poisoning his whiskey" I said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z While Billy was recuperating in a hospital in Vermont, his wife died accidentally of carbon- monoxide poisoning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z To that end, biologists dumped several drums of a poison called rotenone into fifteen miles of creek. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A plume of bright-green gas billowed across the top of the monstrous horde like the spray from a poison riot hose. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Ice cream and poison exploded everywhere, all the little snakes in Kampe’s hair dotted with tutti-frutti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well don’t eat any, ’cause I sprinkled some of that 1080 vermin poison on them and the critters must have got a powerful dose of it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But witnesses testified at the time that he never drank and had been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Heracles was made to wear a poison robe that ate away his flesh,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that mice get hunted and they sometimes get poisoned or caught in traps. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He snapped the visor down and kicked aside the rat who had fixed the poison barb on his tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And if he had come to the apartment late that night, Maud would have thrown him out of her room, not knocked back a shot of poison. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The poisoned fruit of betrayal, a thing of shame hidden away; I don’t understand any of that at eight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “That yellow poison is what made him sick.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to “control” concentrations of birds distasteful to farmers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “But another of his lovers nearly did. When she died, rumor pointed to one of the princes’ poisoning her, just to prevent competition for the throne.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “When you had your first heart attack, I poisoned Matt with foxglove from my garden,” said Celia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Percy, how did you know? You were so confident he’d choose the poison.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z This might have been predicted because of the black record of these poisons in other places. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I paint a monster with poisoned eyes swallowing up the sun so the whole world goes dark. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I could save Arnold from the poisoned treats, let him go on, and let Knapp think that his dirty trick had worked. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Wherever Tehlu stopped to offer men the choice of path, Encanis had been there just before, killing crops and poisoning wells. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Swallowed it back into my stomach like poison. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Several dying screech owls were picked up in Wisconsin following heavy rains in spring, perhaps poisoned by feeding on earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She has been different ever since Jaja was locked up, since she went about telling people that she killed Papa, that she put the poison in his tea. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The current vogue for poisons has failed utterly to take into account these most fundamental considerations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With swarms of these things filling the sky, they’d not only have to worry about getting scorched by the fire, they’d also have to watch their backs for prehistorically large poison bugs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Tobias and Uriah storm in as if to fight a battle—Uriah coughing, probably from the poison—but the battle is done. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As the chemical penetrated the soil the poisoned beetle grubs crawled out on the surface of the ground, where they remained for some time before they died, attractive to insect-eating birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His blue eyes are stained with yellow, like they’ve been poisoned over the years. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The poison had eaten holes through her soul and made room for vermin to nest inside her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z First, they walked for three days from the mountains to Uvira, where the Congolese promptly poisoned them in a restaurant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Why is it that we as geeks, freaks, nerds, dorks, dweebs .. . have to suffer while the clueless, bow-headed, testosterone- poisoned "normal" people are allowed to get away with murder? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The silent and stealthy natives kept a close watch on the expedition’s every move, with their poison arrows primed and ready to shoot. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The Angkar wants to rid Democratic Kampuchea of other races, deemed the source of evil, corruption, and poison, so that people of the true Khmer heritage can rise to power again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His pale skin looked as green as the poison from the chalice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Other eggs were taken from nests left unattended as parent robins were stricken with poison; these too contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Burkhart never admitted having any knowledge that Mollie was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He gripped the fang that was spreading poison through his body and wrenched it out of his arm. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z For Joey, our house may as well be covered with canvas and bound by ropes, because it’s filled with poison. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For other birds, too, the once beneficial rain had been changed, through the evil power of the poison introduced into their world, into an agent of destruction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Soon after, the priest reported that he had received a secret message from Mollie: she was afraid that someone was trying to poison her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Its poisoned foot and hand were mostly gone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The effect of radioactivity on health was hardly unknown—not least because of widespread press coverage of the poisoning of working women at U.S. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He waited on folks, her aunt said, furiously, as though he hoped the food they bought would poison them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He wanted to say that he hadn’t poisoned Furball and didn’t need forgiveness, but he didn’t want to spoil Maria’s mood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Too much poison would be deadly, but too little would also undo my plan. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “We want no part of any treason, you. We are good people in White Harbor, lawful, loyal people. Pour no more poison in our ears, or my good-father will send you to the Wolf’s Den.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She turned back to the cuco and shot her poison dart, aiming for its oversized eyes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He guzzled some red liquid, which thankfully tasted like watered-down wine, not blood or poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Too much politesse, however, might poison a womans prospects for advancement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You’re a fool. You’ve nearly killed yourself and you haven’t lost your baby. I suppose you took things too, poisoned yourself, inserted camphor, kerosene, red pepper. My God! Some of the things you women do!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Where is it?" he hissed, his stench poisoning what little oxygen I had left. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z An agent from the Office of Indian Affairs soon picked up another report: Mollie wasn’t dying of diabetes at all; she, too, was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z People with brown eyes are more likely to choose hanging or poison. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Americans’ clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "He poisoned the Hand of the King and left my sweet baby fatherless, and now I mean to see him pay!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The drakon was close now, stomping through the marsh, blasting trees and moss with its poison spray. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Because these small amounts of pesticides are cumulatively stored and only slowly excreted, the threat of chronic poisoning and degenerative changes of the liver and other organs is very real. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He spat out the words with such hatred, saliva flew from his mouth like poison. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Maybe it comes from the stew in some nameless Ukrainian kitchen; maybe partisans have poisoned the water; maybe Werner simply sits too long in too many damp places with the headset over his ears. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The first was the suspected poisoning of George Bigheart, the Osage Indian who, before dying, had passed on information to Vaughan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And the poison, once introduced, is hard to get rid of. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Out in the corridor, Flatnose was just boasting of the way he had poisoned a farmer’s stocks of olive oil. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to get up in front of thousands of people to help George Finkle sell his poison.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At first she was afraid to take it, fearing it might be a means to poison her or put a spell on her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got the idea of poisoning the mead from the Mudblood Granger as well, I heard her talking in the library about Filch not recognizing potions.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Is that mushroom good food or is it poison? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "They poisoned you against me, I know that," he says. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He agonizes, and ponders, and talks to himself until he’s stabbed by a poisoned blade, and all his tormented self-analysis gives way to eternal silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z She was even to be suspected of poisoning a knight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Aru ran just as blue plumes of poison spiraled into the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At Moat Cailin the bog devils had loosed poisoned arrows at his men, but that was to be expected from such degraded creatures. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother always said that medical drugs are a special kind of poison, one that never leaves your body but rots you slowly from the inside for the rest of your life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I learned the formulae for a dozen poisons and acids and a hundred medicines and cure-alls, some of which even worked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Before you two hopeless cases go off the deep end,” he said bluntly, “may I ask a question: Have you been putting these poison mushrooms in our food?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It had poisoned his feelings for his father. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The men were taught to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, and use poison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Due south the red waste stretched on and on, he reported, until it ended an a bleak shore beside the poison water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The shield of Hercules rolled away and wobbled to a stop in a patch of poison flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One was a greenhouse worker in Germany who became paralyzed several months after experiencing mild symptoms of poisoning on a few occasions after using parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As he and his family traveled through Heidelberg, he slipped into a coma, the result apparently of a combined assault of diabetes, colitis, and his foot infection, all worsened by a bout of food poisoning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps because of the thick smoke that poisoned the air and stung the throat. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As tiny as it was, this extra-small package of fire, poison, and evil would be much harder to kill than a large, bulky lizard. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She stared miserably at Olaf’s plate of food and found herself wishing she had bought poison at the market and put it in the puttanesca sauce. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Perhaps racism is like DDT, the poison that was banned decades ago, but which, because it persists in the environment, is still found within our bodies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “No harm will come to it. I may be suffering from brand-fly poison, but I can still imbue a charm or two.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “They destroy crops and food supplies. They kill trees by gnawing around the bark. Mice can be destroyed by traps, poison, and cats.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘I didn’t mean to ... to poison another friendship. I’m sorry.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It could have been poisoned, but there was no way to be sure. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But your premise is flawed, Honorable Scythe Curie. I know my poisons so well, I could never make a mistake. Ever.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She created tinctures and studied the practical use of deadly poisons in Scythe Curie’s personal apothecary and toxic herb garden. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A new wave of poisoning set in the following year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The manticore threw off his coat and transformed into his true self, his lion claws extended and his spiky tail bristling with poison barbs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “What if it’s poison? It came from a poisonous cauldron, after all...” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The violent knife, the drowning waters, poison, and fever—I defied them all in my escape from Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Or poisoned water,” adds Dad, which makes me grimace, but I press my lips tight so they can’t see. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The water was still pouring over him, turning to poison and creating a steaming marsh around his feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But the poor judgement of men will begin something that seems good at the outset without noticing the poison concealed underneath, as I said earlier in connection with consumptive fevers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, Jared says, “Is the cousin the same guy as before who wanted the poison?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Cassie and me had taken a sacred oath with poison berry juice and blood. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z It will spatter its black poison into the air in a fine spray, killing all the seabirds that breathe it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Ever since she stopped running back and forth between the sisters, delivering their poison pen stories, Vonetta had to work hard for Miss Trotter’s attention. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I saw Wayne stop in front of the house, the cloud of poison still five yards behind him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the New York Times, nearly 20 percent of suicides are committed by poison, but among doctors who kill themselves, that number is 57 percent. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Yes, grandchildren, I know that DDT is a very bad poison. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I only hope he doesn’t taste the bitterness of poison on my lips. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But in the morning, in real life, perhaps half a million, not-yet-dead ants that had fed at the volunteer’s various poisoned banquets were writhing on the smokehouse floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bah! My poison causes pain. It will not kill you. Walk!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Poirot would call it a victory that I realized my parents didn’t intend to poison me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He skimmed over the other passages, looking for some information about an antidote to treat the poison. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They are so angry at each other, their relationship tainted as if it, too, has been poisoned. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He spent the rest of the afternoon spitting into the river, and they had to keep laughing because he kept saying, “Ugh! Awful! It tastes like poison!” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t think I’d poison you—” She stopped and was angry that she had said it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Cracking jokes, drinking Monday to Friday, though a little less now, and walking the poison out to make it in time to worship the good Lord on Sunday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The radiation poisoning was becoming stronger and starting to spread further. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But Mollie’s diabetes seemed to have provided an even more devious way to deliver the poison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Anyway, katoblepones have poison breath and a poison gaze. I thought they only lived in Africa.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They poison my food and milk but still I swell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The poisoning and stabbing scene was okay, but I still think that Romeo is a jerk. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But eventually I accept that the poison must have finally worked its way out of my system, leaving my body wracked and feeble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was Smith who had first suspected that Lizzie was poisoned, and he who had investigated whether there was a larger conspiracy connected to the family’s oil wealth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z "I can have your head off anytime I want. Why would I need to poison you?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘She’s got more than one poison. When she’s hunting, she just gives ’em a dab in the neck and they go as limp as boned fish, and then she has her way with them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z No such restrictions impede the use of these poisons in the United States, however. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The nurses would come into the bedroom, pound him on the back, try to bring up the poison. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cordoba Province in Argentina, however, chronic arsenic poisoning, accompanied by arsenical skin cancers, is endemic because of the contamination of drinking water derived from rock formations containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He spat the word as if it were poison on his lips. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He shook his lasso of poison vines and insulted the monsters’ bad breath, stirring them into a fury. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The first family were the heirs, so there was always the chance they might get poisoned by the second family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And once she sent me help when the Skraelings shot me with a poison arrow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z "Your maester poisoned himself. He meant to poison me, but I was protected by a greater power and he was not." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I have never before poisoned, but I find it extremely agreeable.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was said that they were a cowardly people who fought with poisoned weapons and preferred to hide from foes rather than free them in open battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Most poisons in nature are not that strong. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Evidently not all minds of German youth have been poisoned by the Nazis....The Scholls will reeducate Germany. They are already doing so.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Thor said, “Careful. It can spit burning black venom. It spat its poison at me, but it missed. That’s why we tied its head to the tree like that.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Agrippina had slipped a poisoned one into his dish one night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now the poison was out of her system. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z That was the one who had killed people, set them on fire, poisoned them, cooked them in lye. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually his clothes and possessions just sort of melted into his animal shape, but apparently he still smelled like a yummy poison dinner. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The New York Times found it necessary to issue a warning on its garden page to the effect that unless special protective devices were installed poisons might get into the water supply by back siphonage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The cells not killed outright by the impact of such a respiratory poison struggle to compensate for the loss of energy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Absurdly, he was excluded from a 1971 National Research Council panel appointed to investigate the dangers of atmospheric lead poisoning even though he was by now unquestionably the leading expert on atmospheric lead. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They could not remove the poison and so she died, two days before the new year. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to touch him but when he opened his eyes again the expression in them was poison. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that Burt had been with Bigheart around the time he succumbed to apparent poisoning—a local lawman had noted that Burt and Hale had both visited with Bigheart shortly before he died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He thought about poisoning Balder with mistletoe berries, but that seemed too simple and straightforward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The bowl she holds fills slowly, one drop at a time, but eventually the poison fills the bowl to the brim. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z At TRIGON's request, while he was still in Colombia, the CIA had assembled a second pen, containing a breakable vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He covered swiftly with his shield as the poisoned metal barb clanged harmlessly off it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After all that hearing, he writes, “I am exposed .... cut by bitter and poisoned hail.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Jessie inched down the stairs, glancing around as if waiting for something with venomous tentacles to drop on her head and inject poison into her bloodstream. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He remembered Nivea, Rosa’s mother, who, after her husband had retired from politics, terrified by the poisoned brandy, had begun her own political campaign. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was five months since the poison had been applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The argument for an indefinite boycott was that Bantu Education was a poison one could not drink even at the point of death from thirst. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way, he showed me a plant called poison oak that makes you itch all over if you touch it, and told me to keep an eye out for snakes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “She admits it! She’s one of those root witches that poison people’s minds. My mom says you can’t expect anything from them. They don’t know any better.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And she would bear the brunt of that poison, not me—I was fully aware of the Afghan double standard that favored my gender. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Sisters were skilled in all known languages, astronomy, the art of poisons, dance, metallurgy, martial arts, decoupage, and the finer points of assassinry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We all look like ants marching in this dust straight into a giant trap where we’ll be stuck or where we’ll be fed poison that we inadvertently spread to the rest of the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Test it for me. I want to know if it’s poison.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’ll poison his mind with her talk of guns and shooting.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When the poison broke into her body, she whispered to me that she would rather kill her own weak spirit so she could give me a stronger one. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow drinking from the poisoned cup himself to deflect suspicion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I’d cried for days when I learned I was carrying twins, and now I lay awake nights wondering whether my despair had poisoned her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent my lunch period combing my food for poison and thinking about how I could have been gone forever. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z While fathers played sublimated sexual games with their nubile teenaged daughters, Poothana suckled young Krishna at her poisoned breast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later she died from poisons she had accumulated in South America from eating birds that had eaten DDT-sprayed insects. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A slower poison than the locusts, but in the end as deadly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The more Bill delved, conferring with doctors and local investigators, the more he was certain that Lizzie had died of something dreadfully unnatural: she’d been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To find a documented poisoning attributable to wild sweet pea, I had to go all the way back to the nineteenth-century annals of Arctic exploration. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “To think,” she murmured, “all that time it was your cup that was poisoned.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Above him was a gigantic, vile bird, green poison shining on its feathers. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “We found a bottle in the trash room, Sassy. Inside that bottle was a trace of poison that matches the poison we found in a water glass we took from your parents’ bedroom.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “There’s a book! The first-aid book. It says to tie a band between the bite and his chest. So the poison can’t get to his heart.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “OP Spizz was very cooperative with me, and it didn’t take too much work to get him to confess that he did all the poisoning.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Are you expecting someone to poison you?” he said, somewhat taken aback. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The lake of poison rolled toward her in tiny waves and rivulets. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I heard what you said in Miss Bimp’s about almost getting poisoned, and I was wondering. Do you eat supper with them murderers?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One result of the subsequent roadside spraying was the death of a dozen cows from arsenic poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “And so you don’t even know whose fields this food came from? That sounds terrible. It could be poisoned!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A Pittsburgh man came home to find his screaming wife about to swallow poison. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what was wrong with dude, but it wasn’t no regular stomach flu or food poisoning. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The poison may also be passed on from mother to offspring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why would we poison and kill our own people? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “And it wasn’t even poison I” Clevinger cried heatedly, growing more emphatic as he grew more confused. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He, too, had died of what authorities described as some strange poison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We tried everything. Drink, drugs, prayer, even small doses of poison. On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I had not been barbecued I couldn’t even feel the Chimera poison boding in my veins anymore. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z That NAACP’s come down here and filled ’em with poison till it runs out of their ears. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Remarkably, none of the agents expressed suspicions over the nature of her illness, even though so many victims during the Reign of Terror had been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The orange-stained sky was waiting as I broke into the night, coughing up water and poisoned air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z That was because Citra was too busy going over her weapons and poisons in her head. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon’s food. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Mechtild, was a vial of poison not stolen from you this April, before King Hamlet’s death?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Quite lethal. In Central America the indigenous people use them to fashion poisoned darts.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then he made the warriors taste all of the food to make sure it wasn’t poisoned. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Just know that it is filled with deadly poison.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “To explain that Mithridates was unhappy with his decision. And perhaps add the idea that he did not become strong by drinking poison daily. He only became full of poison himself.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Frank felt like the poison was bubbling back up his throat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They will poison the water they will spin the water away and there will be drought the people will starve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Temperance lived with his second family in the Meadowlands, and we visited them sparingly because my mom was always afraid of being poisoned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Dieldrin, another fire ant poison, has a well- documented history of extreme hazard to all aquatic life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I had not considered that he might poison his father. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On his advice, the runs and burrows of the various Marks were not connected underground, so that disease or poison, if they came, would spread less readily. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The No-Pest Strips, she explained, released a poison that killed all the flies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel’s senses told her that the pit was at least fifty feet straight down, with a pool of poison at the bottom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once he forged his chain, his secret father and his friends wasted no time dispatching him to Winterfell to fill Lord Rickard’s ears with poisoned words as sweet as honey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soil high in organic matter releases smaller quantities of poisons than others. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She takes the bowl and pours the venom away, and while she is gone, the snake’s poison falls onto Loki’s face and into his eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A huge black demon breathing fire and poison. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At this moment I see poisoned eggplant as very unlikely. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The actions of the moribund foxes were those of animals poisoned by chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Plots and poisons were no strangers to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yet I can’t prove that the low levels of these poisons in food are enough to make you sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To themselves, they seemed to struggle in the poisoned runs and to blaze with rage for poor Pimpernel in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That poison infected every cell, and I vomited so hard that I felt my muscles tear from my ribs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It is an extraordinary fact that the deliberate introduction of poisons into a reservoir is becoming a fairly common practice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her people had followed her across the red waste as she chased her comet, and would follow her across the poison water too, but they would not be enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Several facts suggested that the robins were being poisoned, not so much by direct contact with the insecticides as indirectly, by eating earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It fixed him with its eyes, and the next gout of poison came so close to Thor that he could taste it on the ocean air. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z ‘If we speak of poisoned tongues what shall we say of yours, young serpent?’ said Saruman, and the flash of his anger was now plain to see. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After each violent attack, I started to fear that maybe it wasn’t food poisoning, but rather that something far more insidious was responsible for the gut-wrenching torture taking place in my body. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She found it difficult to speak with the poison in her system. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z If so, who guarded the poisoned area to keep out any who might wander in, in misguided search for unspoiled nature? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some even sent him jars of poisoned fruit! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to lace my words with poison, but that only made him laugh. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere around there the first gray mule had eaten a poison weed and died; the bones would be scattered in the tall grass around the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite our fondness for it, it is fundamentally a poison for unprotected organic matter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These men will poison your mind, he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are not poisoned, if that is what you fear,” said Cristiana, eating the figs herself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He wanted to watch her drown in her own poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This man had also been quite unable to raise chickens since the land was poisoned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “And even if there were,” the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, “people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something. I wouldn’t do that, Lenina.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was one of them who administered the poison that killed the child and its mother.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "That woman was a food-taster. That young girl's tongue has been trained to detect over ninety-eight types of poisons to be found in our kingdom." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z "Are you all right? I read in the papers about the poisoning." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely had gone out of him, and his person was clean and sweet, and he knew it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Possibly, he was worried that that a letter might contain poison or that a package could contain an explosive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The memory of him is like a poison masked in a beautiful glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Less than a year earlier, he’d died suddenly—word was of poisoned alcohol. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d gone crazy and killed himself, I thought-—gotten so sick of this cheerful but futureless eternity that he’d guzzled rat poison or taken a dive off a cliff. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The poison sprayed his shoulder, and it burned where it touched. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He kept his silence, but he would not move, and his eyes were full of poison as they rode away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At first I thought it was only myself, and that I was lying in the dark in my hotel room after being poisoned. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He had tried to communicate that the national interest did not lie in simply continuing atomic bomb work, and even suggested banning atomic weapons by international convention “just like poison gases after the last war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I got poison ivy while camping last week.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Can we suppose that poisons we introduce into water will not also enter into these cycles of nature? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was indeed poisoned, but the plant that killed him wasn’t wild sweet pea. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The medicine melted the dark poison; the blackness seemed to be rinsing away and Dragon’s breathing became easier and even. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z His body twitched with it, as if it were poison constricting his muscles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Use of poisons in the kitchen is made both attractive and easy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I have not stopped itching for days. Since I slept in poison ivy.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z My dad had practically poisoned her, twisting her guts into an explosive device. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A man under treatment for obesity suddenly developed symptoms of poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He becomes terribly paranoid, convinced people are trying to poison him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Forewarned of the visitors’ arrival by drum and messenger, Indians awaited them behind trees and in concealed canoes, shot fusillades of poisoned arrows, then withdrew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Making use of the readily available poisons, she soon turns the blowgun into a deadly weapon by dipping the darts in lethal substances and directing them into her opponents’ flesh. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think the poison will attack within the hour,” he said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Arsenic provides a classic case of the virtually permanent poisoning of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And of course, there’s the whole poison thing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Day by day, the poison spread, strangling him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Fruit then. Or vegetables. Make sure they’re washed. I don’t want any of your chemical poisons in my blood.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I could feel deadly poison racing up to my chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison, although no longer present in the water, had somehow passed from generation to generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The white-green poison kept pooling, little streams trickling from the plants as the venomous lake around him got wider and wider. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I hope we don’t end up with food poisoning,” Momma teases. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z After Zeitoun and Nasser prayed, they and the rest of the prisoners spent the morning shielding their eyes and mouths with their shirts, coughing through the poison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Another head breathed a column of fire, and the third head dripped what looked like greenish poison from between its fangs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “The poison could have been in the bottle, in which case it was probably meant for Slughorn himself.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Oysters and clams may concentrate these poisons in their digestive organs and other tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And then she’d gotten food poisoning—a box of leftovers that had sat too long in the fridge—and thrown up right in the library, in front of the social worker. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She figured out how to throw knives and make poisoned arrows from the skins of frogs, to sneak up on prey twice her size and track targets in the dark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “The poison was very quick. I don’t think he felt it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But as she handed him the poisoned cup Theseus, wishing to make himself known at once to his father, drew his sword. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “The doctor says he can do nothing. She has poisoned herself.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "Intern Deere, you saw the body of Samuel W. Westing in the coffin. Did he appear to have been poisoned?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Green Tiger is no ordinary beast. His teeth and claws are poison. Without the medicine I have, he will die before seeing the sunset.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z If I didn’t shut off the geysers soon, the salt water would run into the river and poison the fish and plants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "He was sending his wife back to the Eyrie, and his son to be fostered on Dragonstone ... he meant to act ..." "So you poisoned him first." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I have a news flash for you—we aren’t dead,” I said, “so that shoots down your poisoning theory.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Burned into his mind was the look on that woman’s face as she fearfully yet obediently opened her mouth to be poisoned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And suddenly there was Helmholtz at his side— “Good old Helmholtz!”—also punching—“Men at last!”— and in the interval also throwing the poison out by handfuls through the open window. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember sitting at the dinner table, with Cordelia, his warnings washing over our heads, the ruined water, the poisoned trees, species after species snuffed out like stepped-on ants. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know if the food was poisoned. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time I got my mother to bring home a pamphlet about smoking in which they showed lungs damaged from tobacco poisons. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z And then she hurled it straight at the gigantic cauldron full of poison, hollering, “For science!!!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “There’s a backlog of bodies at the morgue, Tookie. So save us some time, why don’t you. What poison did you use?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z "Pain you will have, but you must keep your body strong to fight the poison spirits." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Outside in the dark, the snake monsters restlessly patrolled the hillside, spewing fire and poisoning the grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Labadists in particular embraced simple communal living and sacrifice in order to flush out the poisons of self-love. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For one thing, I am sick, my body fighting the effects of the fruit and the poisons I am forcing down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Golden, horrid bees that stung, poisoned, and fell lifeless, like seeds on the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z With a sudden flourish, he produced the poisoned pin Powers had removed from the silver dollar. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Four dogs guarded his bed at night, one at each corner, and a young pig named Pinkeye was given the task of tasting all his food before he ate it, lest it should be poisoned. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I bet he doesn’t even know that those flowers are poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Queen Gertrude lies cold, poisoned by a cup the king intended for Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Before his captors could stop him, he bit down on the tip of the CIA-designed device, breaking a vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seven took the vials out of her coat pocket as Valley pulled out five blow darts and began filling them with the dangerous purple poison. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Robert had slain her gallant brother Rhaegar, and one of his creatures had crossed the Dothraki sea to poison her and her unborn son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There a Pope had been complaining, as he was held to ransom, or another one had been wriggling, as he was poisoned. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has radiation poisoning. He’s physically not able to do much and—and...” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I tell myself that it’s just the poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In one of the most tragic cases of endrin poisoning there was no apparent carelessness; efforts had been made to take precautions apparently considered adequate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Trenton police received desperate requests for the poison gas antidote. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z That way the soldiers won’t think I’m trying to poison them with my tin of cookies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All these consequences of organic phosphate poisoning, if survived, may be a prelude to worse. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, the Germans poisoned them and dropped their bodies into the sea. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So one night I wrote to Mr. Muhammad about the poison being spread about him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I... hot spices do not agree with me. She was my wife. My queen. Why would I want to poison her?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Trust among friends was poisoned by constant competition for food and pressure to snitch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Horatio’s eyes grew wide in wonder as he remarked, “Henbane! Hamlet told me his father’s ghost did name that killing poison poured into his ear!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Angel of Death washed his knife in the water, soiled it, poisoned it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The woods are dense, with thickets and patches of poison ivy that we have to make our way around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “They were both poisoned,” said the man in black. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "Is it common to find poison in the palace food?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She was sure it was the end for all of them when she heard the ham operator warning that poison smoke had reached South Street, near her home. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Along with the birds, foxes also may have been affected, probably indirectly by eating poisoned mice or birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “There was enough poison in that brandy to fell an ox,” he said between tight lips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The community cloth was drab, all no-color; the formless shifts and trousers worn by the people were woven and stitched for protection against the sudden occasional rain, thorn scratch, or poison berry. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank yelled, “You want my poison roots? Come and get them!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And when we return to the surface, if we escape and find them, what’s to stop the Collective from using the poison on all of us? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The news that Ron had been poisoned spread quickly next day, but it did not cause the sensation that Katie’s attack had done. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "That's the poison they put in your mind, boy. They brainwashed you into thinking you can remember." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z It smelled okay, but I was afraid of being poisoned. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the Seven Kingdoms it is considered a grave breach of hospitality to poison your guest at supper.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Not every man is what he seems, and a prince especially has good cause to be wary... but go too far down that road, and the mistrust can poison you, make you sour and fearful.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They passed it around, each taking a sip of poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The powerful tail whipped expertly out, slashing across the rat’s face with its poisoned metal war barb. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Unless they had stealthily dropped Seth with a poison dart. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Some folks swore she was a witch; a few misguided harpies insinuated she had poisoned or otherwise murdered the three husbands who had died on her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was paranoid that someone would poison her like she did to Maryam, so little by little she made herself immune. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Two snakes full of poison” is how Patsy Mitchner, a former slave, summed up her experience before and after the war. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you dare tell—” “You act like you want kids but you drinking enough to poison a elephant! ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It confirmed to me how apartheid was a poison that bred moral decay in all areas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariam heard of a neighborhood widow who had ground some dried bread, laced it with rat poison, and fed it to all seven of her children. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Lyddie couldn’t help but laugh, remembering the sight of those sweating, swearing, filthy gentlemen, and now they were further poisoning the already stale air of the carriage with their odor and road mud. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the whole world is poisoned with wickedness and lies, and it’s best to learn that now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And then the frantic morning winds began to twist along the ground, and a chill came into the air, and the poison oak turned red. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I try to convince myself that the note could not have referred to the poisoning of Locke’s mother, that Balekin had no motive when Dain was already the High King’s chosen heir. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Is this the same poison they gave Robert?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She wraps her arms around her stomach, runs to the bushes, pulls her pants to her ankles, and lets the poison run out of her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the gas filled the halls of our ruined school, we regularly filled that space with another kind of combustible, invisible poison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The dead patch spread outward, as if poison were seeping from the soles of his shoes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Both voices spoke in unison, as if they’d found something to agree on: “A poisoned child.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She refuses to eat them, considers them poison. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole hill seemed to be infected, dying from the poison that had sunk into the tree’s roots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if the gold was poisoning their thoughts somehow, so that they’d never give her a fair trial. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Studies in mental acuity, history, and the chemistry of poisons—as well as daily entries in their apprentice journals. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He says we are poisoning the rivers and ruining the gene pools of the planet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The collar was set with an enchanted amethyst that Xaro swore would ward her against all poisons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hollingsworth offered sage medical advice—“Don’t sit between a fever patient and a fire”—and provided various techniques for dealing with medical emergencies, such as accidental poisoning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Goddard and his junior scythes totally owned the Capitol steps when they came up,” said an apprentice Rowan remembered from last conclave—the one who knew his poisons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I thought about how the poison had been out of her system for the past six weeks and how much hope we both had. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z What I wouldn’t give to punch whoever poisoned her mind.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If you stepped on one, it snapped open and dropped you into a pit filled with poisoned iron spikes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The Apprentice Administrator, who was almost as old as her dying Master, had been chosen long ago for her aptitude for poisons and torture. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Dorian, she took the poison out of me. She—she...Oh, gods, I don’t even know what happened.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z One boy cut his foot while playing on a rusted plow, which poisoned his blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Anything. Go to college. Join the circus. Live naked in a tepee. Whatever. Just nothing involving snakes or poison, though.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z ‘Better. I... I have to admit, when I was choking on that poison, I kept thinking about Akhlys, the misery goddess in Tartarus. I almost destroyed her with poison.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z With the glow of the poison in Shiva’s mouth behind her, it almost looked like she had a halo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,” he added, in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We flipped rocks and found scorpions underneath them, tails standing up braided with poison. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Pita flayed her arms and grunted from behind clenched teeth, resisting the witch’s poison. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "I have heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The mockery dripped from her voice like poison. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Maryam died clawing at her own throat, trying to scrape or squeeze the shirin poison back out as it ripped her apart. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Over time beyond measure, these poisoned rivers, in the region between fire and mist, slowly solidified into huge glaciers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z No animals died to make this cigarette, but for once I don’t like the way it makes me feel, like Em being polluted, like I’m being poisoned. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was a poison in my system and I needed to purge it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Take with water and within seconds your fingers will secrete a transdermal poison. Anyone you touch for the next hour will be instantly and painlessly gleaned.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Donay is too old and too weak to wade in poison water. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Phiri’s magic had been so strong it had simply rubbed off like poison. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Victims tried to peel the flies off, but whatever type of poison those flying iron monsters carried, it was potent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She was now decanting the mysteriously separated ingredients of her poison into ten different crystal phials. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Not that he truly thought she'd poison him, but it never hurt to be careful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the contrary, a constant stream of new gadgets make it easier to use poisons on lawn and garden — and increase the gardener’s contact with them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t really think my mother would poison me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He’s gone into the woods to draw out the poison with oak-leaf acid.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I gave orders to poison scoundrels, forgetting you would be dining as well.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My stomach hurts so much I want to cut it open and take the poison out. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once this braid was done, Pond would have nothing to diminish the effects of the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “At last. The perfect poison elixir, just as His Royal Highness requested.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This stream flows into the valley out of a sort of cleft in the rock ridge to the left of Burden Hill—the water comes from outside, and it was poisoned. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I'm working through a couple of scenarios, one of them involving rat poison and soup, even though poison is a cowardly way to murder a man, when I stop short. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Probably,” said Harry, “but why would Slughorn want to poison Ron?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Why would someone leave a bottle with poison in it where the police could find it?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I think of Johnny’s strong arms, the stripe of white sunblock on his nose, the time we were sick together from poison ivy and lay next to each other in the hammock, scratching. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She pulled poison dart after dart and blew it in the Nightbeast’s direction. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But there’s not enough water on the ship to dilute this concentration of poison. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He cut the cake and stuffed a piece in his mouth before Piper could warn him it might be poisoned, or inedible for mortals, or just plain bad. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "Much better. The rash is gone. The poison is out of me. I'm back to feeling like myself." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Unlike his heroic older brother, who is gradually dying of freezer-burned-food poisoning. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At restaurants Bobby always carried with him a virtual pharmacy of remedies and potions to immediately counteract any poisons that the Soviets might slip into his food or drink. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Too much poison. Too many curses piled up.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But in that moment, I knew it wasn’t just the poison that was killing her. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “We have to dilute the poison until the nymphs are cleansed.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z So sorry, but Ike should perhaps be killed now with a poisoned arrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “This family is the reason the river is low! They poison the water!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His skin tingled, and he wondered if it was a side effect of the poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He sent me poisoned wine, yet I live and he is gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If the cat had been poisoned, might not this act have been a small, malicious prelude to the murders? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused as he entered, looked around, and said, with a small smile, “I haven’t poisoned that chocolate, you know....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The testing of chemicals for a sterilizing effect is much more difficult than the testing of chemical poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It filled the hall like a poison gas. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d retreated to the edge of the cliff, even though the poison wasn’t after her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then he moved once more, to a former hotel, after a tall man started walking a dog on his block; and yet again, after a dream about Mr. Fitt poisoning his water with lead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly the hospitals were filled to bursting with all the people who’d been poisoned or bornbed and everyone was fighting over food and drinkable water. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z At the top of her list: Percy controlling a tide of poison and suffocating the goddess Akhlys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We had put some poison around, and we figured he must have been dying. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Trot down to the hardware store and buy me a tin of 1080 poison—I got some vermin to kill up at the dump.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I think of the way she spat out the explanation of the tattoo of broken glass on her back like it was poison. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I could feel the poison move through my bloodstream like thick, tainted honey. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Naiads and dryads tried to help, using nature magic songs to heal burns and poison. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When they started churning, poison burst into the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and some trouble they got into with the Klan with some poison ivy and such. Ned and Jinx. Did you know them?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Among the mammals ground squirrels were virtually annihilated; their bodies were found in attitudes characteristic of violent death by poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My whole arm’s on fire, incredible, searing pain— it’s as if his crushing fingers are charged like fangs with poison. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We poison the caddis flies in a stream and the salmon runs dwindle and die. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I poisoned you. Don’t worry. It was a small enough dose. You’ll live.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His lips move poison and she smiles and then she kisses him wet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The literature of veterinary medicine is rife with cases of animals stricken by swainsonine poisoning after eating damp forage contaminated with R. leguminicola. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the bugs swarmed around him, the poison didn’t seem to have any effect on the shadow bird—his black feathers just absorbed it like ink into the page. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “We must flush the poison. I have been stirring helplessly all day.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This girl poisoned herself after refusing to say whose child she carried. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that the white man’s efforts to make my name poison actually succeeded only in making millions of black people regard me like Joe Louis. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thereafter, he had to wear thick-lensed glasses which made him look more like a poisoned corpse than ever before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can’t trust them Indians. Don’t you know we poisoned their corn? What if she trying to poison you?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Stinging cells in the nettle inject a poison into the skin. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Repeated exposures may lower the cholinesterase level until an individual reaches the brink of acute poisoning, a brink over which he may be pushed by a very small additional exposure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I told you it poisoned me. I told you it made me sick.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bare seconds later, it had slammed into the prisoner, pinning him to the ground as he screamed, its poison dripping over his face, leaving smoky trails wherever it touched his skin. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If you knew Count Olaf, and he suddenly served you a meal, wouldn’t you be afraid there was something terrible in it, like poison or ground glass? The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Do you have any poison? People are asking for it,” he said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There’s a divot in it, a crater where everyone dumped acorns, leaves, grass, those poison red berries if there were any. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And in the end, in the steaming little pit of hatred and poison, he found himself, he found the David he needed. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I found a Tribal midwife. After I’d attended a few dozen births with her and learned what I needed, I poisoned her. “Then one winter morning, I felt the pains. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You may try,” Lady Meng said, speaking the words as if spitting poison, “to marry my corpse.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want a poisoned rat to have one last spasm and bite me through my sneakers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And if that didn’t kill them, you know what you could do? You could put some poison on some marshmellows and make them eat it.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Normally she didn’t wish for more deadly poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Merry did not like this talk of wild men and poisoned darts, but quite apart from that a great weight of dread was on him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was either take the chance and eat this fruit that might poison me or die of hunger. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “It’s the medicine that cures the tiger’s poison.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I drop into the seat and drain the water, not stopping to consider if it might be poisoned. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There’s much I could say about her mother, Queen Orlagh, who is planning a poisoning, but I bite my tongue. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No, the king had died at table, others said, but only because Varys the Spider poisoned him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Yes, the doctor said it was his heart, but I believe he was poisoned,” Clay said ominously. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons—throw it to some human being or some human idea. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Never poisons unless they were on the tips of weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I wondered about thorns, poison ivy, snakes...I wondered, but I didn’t stop. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Once the imperialist ideological and cultural poisoning is tolerated, even the faith unshakable before the threat of a bayonet will be bound to give in like a wet mud-wall.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He tried to get out of the way, to move his head from beneath the poison. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z They draw back like I just threatened to spit poison at them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “You come help me with these fancy contraptions, let Old Familiar take care of those poison flies, and my ax will handle that giant over there, sure it will.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z So, King Bull had lost the sword to a giant worm with poison teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Just passed out. But the poison likely to kill her by sunset. Copperhead don’t play.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Cluny was the picture of barbaric power, geared for war from his poison tail tip to the frightening battle helmet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “You do not trust the gods. I cannot blame you, little coward. Better you die now. The gods are faithless. The poison is in your heart.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z If I live through this war, can I live with having done nothing, or will my life be poisoned with regret? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Hot and sweet and poisoned. With mine own ears I heard you commanding the men in the pit to kill Dmgon. Shouting at them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Worse, I couldn’t even warn him about it—not without poisoning his one-and-only experience of the real world. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He sniffed carefully and finally ventured to touch his tongue to it, fearing all the while that it might be poisoned food. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Okay, getting rid of poisons is a no-brainer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As soon as she was gone, the pools of poison evaporated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I retreated and dodged poison, but I couldn’t hurt the thing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Wine could conceal any number of advanced poisons—but which one was it? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z To neutralize the poisons, military hospitals sprayed the chemicals in the air and on smelly body waste. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And what the scorching, searing, freezing, poisoning weapons of non-life have failed to do may be accomplished to the end of its destruction and extinction by the tactics of survival gone sour. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the door handle is covered with poison and she doesn’t want to have anything to do with grabbing hold of it and opening the door. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had harnessed his self-loathing and used it to indict the state that had poisoned his heart and killed his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Observations on several flocks of sheep and a herd of beef cattle are indicative of the poisoning and death that threatened livestock as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I remembered Mechtild’s cabinet with its array of poisons, an easy means of evildoing for a villain with the heart of a fox. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z ‘The poison will kill him eventually, but first come the paralysis and hours of excruciating pain. I want him to have the full experience! He can watch as I destroy you, Jason Grace!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Pond was growing weaker with each passing day, and he only had one more braid of sweetgrass to help with the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There were little white boys with complete collections of football cards, and their only want was a popular girlfriend and their only worry was poison oak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I think of Liriope, of the letter, of how Balekin wanted proof of who got the poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the poison had not really left the lake; it had merely gone into the fabric of the life the lake supports. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These important studies establish the fact that the insecticidal poison affects a generation once removed from initial contact with it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Could that mouse of a maester be doing this? Maesters know spells and other tricks. He might be using one to poison me, hoping I will let him cut my hand off.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They devoured the poisoned meat, much to the jubilation of the crowd. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will give him something to try to turn the poison aside,” he said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The vision rippled again, and this time, there were hands holding one of the poisoned trichotomous. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Even so, whenever she had to empty the cup and the poison fell on him, though but for a moment, his agony was so intense that his convulsions shook the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z An adult might be very ill from the sting, but a baby could easily die from the poison. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z "How about snake venom? Or poison? Doctors know lots of poisons that make it look like heart attacks." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z After Lizzie died in July 1921, Mollie’s brother-in-law, Bill Smith, had presented his suspicions to authorities that she’d been slowly poisoned, but by August they had still not looked into the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And on that tablecloth, evenly spaced, were weapons: a pistol, a shotgun, a scimitar, a bowie knife, and a vial with a poison pill. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Not even if you make her poor and try to kill her slowly in the little-by-little poison of sadness. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The venom from its fangs will spill into the water, poisoning all the sea life. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Inside the cube, a vial of toxic, green poison glimmers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But she refused to taste the moonshine: she feared that it was poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I read this in one of my auntie’s journals. You can actually activate the poisons that way.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It looked delicious, and was guaranteed 100 percent poison- and tracer-free, which I was ecstatic about. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Yeah. They have Coke in this world, obviously. Look, I’ll drink some to prove it isn’t poison.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven years of drinking poison, of never sleeping, of living on high alert. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But in this story, there is also real poison. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It made for slow going, and all the ironbom were well aware of how exposed they were, well within bowshot of the bog devils and their poisoned arrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some go to live in other camps, where they learn to make poison stakes, and others follow the soldiers as porters. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The giant threw his weighted net and Percy collapsed to the floor, hopelessly entangled as the poison thickened around him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “The little one—the first-born—has been poisoned by the scorpion,” Kino said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z So in the end the luckless consumer pays his taxes but gets his poisons regardless. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Arsenic was the weapon he decided upon; after poisoning the victims, he meant to tuck them in their beds and burn down the house, in the hope that investigators would believe the deaths accidental. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. van Heerden painted them with poison and put them under little wire baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When lawyers presented percentages about teenagers dying from alcohol poisoning and drunk driving, it was ruled things would remain as they have been—legally. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z ‘What about this stuff? After the House of Hades, I kind of hoped we were done drinking poison.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It is the same person who steals our children and poisons the water. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Scythe Volta was now in the doghouse, though, because he had lobbed a container of poison gas into the burning maze. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “All right,” I replied, swirling the cold soup in the bowl, checking for poison. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Though her case was never classified as a homicide, agents had clearly suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Okay, then why don’t I just pray to Jesus and Jesus will take the poison out of the food?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She pushed the plunger, the poison flooded the animal’s chest around the heart, and the monkey jumped. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, and set the bleach and poison on the kitchen table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They said that in all the world there was nothing more feared: the strong coils, hypnotic eyes and poison fangs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Not only the target insect or plant, but anything — human or nonhuman — within range of the chemical fallout may know the sinister touch of the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Here in Oklahoma people don’t poison each other except with canned green beans that have a vague medicine flavor. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But poisons that have no normal place in the body may also be detoxified. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "It's poison. Just like the one that was used on me. It's made from the pollen of bloodroot flowers." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z First, they knew, would come swelling and fever and tightened throat, and then cramps in the stomach, and then Coyotito might die if enough of the poison had gone in. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a group of three chemical plant workers developed acute poisoning from exposure to other insecticides of this group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She used her other senses—listening for the echo of open spaces, feeling for cross-breezes against her face, sniffing for any scent of danger—smoke, or poison, or the stench of demons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They have immense power not merely to poison Tut to enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was not really a poison, but if you put it in the water the fish would turn over on their backs and float. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We lie there gasping, twitching, our minds and bodies invaded by the poison. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In places like Osage County, where there was no coroner trained in forensics and no crime laboratory, poisoning was a perfect way to commit murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the fish of Clear Lake also were analyzed the picture began to take form — the poison being picked up by the smallest organisms, concentrated and passed on to the larger predators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Except her brothers have sworn to poison me. I will die. She will be widowed and left to those villains.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I knew he didn’t really want to poison him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She has a poison personality, and I feel that even I am susceptible to it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Jason wasn’t too fond of firsthand poison either, but he decided not to mention that. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Over 100,000 more would die of wounds, burns, and radiation poisoning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The bad news is, you don’t have food poisoning. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She loved that poison more than she loved me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Some poisons could take longer to affect you, but... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The poison barb on Cluny’s tail had done its deadly work. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “The child’s curse will poison us all. I want her sold, Elihu, sold today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My body shudders, and I wonder if that is the poison, if the poison is already shutting down my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z His arms, poisoned by the sap, had festered and were seeping, swollen, and hot. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Speaking of hands, I can see what you’ve been doing in the discoloration of your fingers. The blue cast. I can smell it in your sweat, too. You’ve been poisoning yourself.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “A month after we arrived here, Cook tried to poison the Commandant.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Fennel sharpens the sight and is an antidote to some poisons. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There’s a thump in my head now, like I can hear my poisoned blood pumping, and everything in the world throbs with it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “The way this room has been designed, the heat from the fire above has turned some of the poison liquid into a gas,” reasoned Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Persons thus poisoned recover so slowly as to indicate chronic effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Because being around Mom is like swimming in poison. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z No teachers turning into monsters and trying to kill me with poisoned cafeteria food or exploding homework. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He drank it down, and the poison turned his throat blue. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z These insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species of which we desire to be rid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She explained that after her grandfather divorced her grandmother, he wed a white woman, and in 1931 he began to suspect that he was being poisoned—by his second wife. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A screaming Cyclops, sizzling from poison spray, sailed over their heads. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Besides, the relief centers have nothing. And did you not hear that all the children in Nnewi died after drinking relief milk? The vandals had poisoned it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Lots of people don’t. I could name you people in this neighborhood that hate him like poison.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our aunt and our great-grandma should be rocking on this porch together. Not sending poison pen letters back and forth through you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “The Caribs use its sap to poison their arrows and it burns like fire. Our men must have chopped into it.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The plant that poisoned him wasn’t toxic, per se; McCandless simply had the misfortune to eat moldy seeds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was tired of people skirting around him in the corridors, as though he were about to sprout fangs or spit poison; tired of all the muttering, pointing, and hissing as he passed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It was a snake, cold of eye, its tongue flickering, its fangs dripping with poison. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “They have found the poison in your father’s body.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There was something furtive and hesitant about him and Hazel glanced at him sharply, wondering for a moment whether he could have sickness or poison on him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, this medicine was going to drip into him for twenty-four hours, and then they would give him other drugs to minimize the poisoning he would get from this drug. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If her sun-and- stars had lived, he would have led his khalasar across the poison water and swept away her enemies, but his strength had left the world.' A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Seven screamed as the magical poison snaked its way toward her father’s chest. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Many did not eat meat for weeks on account of the death smell that poisoned the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t decide which was more terrifying - the impending destruction of New Rome, or the way Octavian was poisoning the legion from the inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “We have to stop the poisons from getting into the bloodstream.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The only thing I couldn’t understand was why it was just poison oak and not a snake or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had accidentally slept in a patch of poison ivy and was itchy and grumpy. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Getting rushed to the hospital in the back of an ambulance for alcohol poisoning was life changing, right? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The team doctor came quickly to check on me and decided that I had food poisoning. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You don’t think those berries were poisoned, do you?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She had five minutes left—five minutes during which she not only had to identify the poisons in seven goblets, but arrange them in the order of the most benign to the deadliest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z This whole chain of poisoning, then, seems to rest on a base of minute plants which must have been the original concentrators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was thrashing around like a person having a fit and trying to claw my face with her hands and I thought maybe she was suffering from some form of mushroom poisoning. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My clothes on fire, poison coursing through my veins, I plummeted toward the river. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t plant any vegetables above where you bury those rodents. They got enough poison in ’em to bring down an elephant.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe poison gas is something good to have.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a Coke crate and watched pickups zoom by till I was nearly poisoned with exhaust fumes and boredom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You look as though I were trying to poison you.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “But look here, old man . . .” “Throw it all away, that horrible poison.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z So Will knew that all those things were part of having a dæmon, and that whatever his dæmon was, she, too, was left behind, with Pantalaimon, on that poisoned and desolate shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Government officials working for the Office of Indian Affairs were also concerned that Mollie was slowly being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We did not have any mousetraps or rat poison in the house, and my mother had not been up to anything suspicious during the night. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe his fever is returning; maybe the sludge they drank in the hotel cellar has poisoned him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The physical therapist was showing me how to bang loose the poison in his lungs—which he needed done regularly now, to keep it from solidifying, to keep him breathing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get back home to Titid’s, there is big fuss going on because of all these rumors that somebody Want to poison Titid. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he should have crushed some leaves of oleander, or chopped up nightshade root, and somehow found a way to sneak the poison into Trademaster’s food. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rasputin was poisoned, shot, slashed, bludgeoned, and drowned to death by his rivals on December 30, 1916. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He could sense that the poison had only been slowed, not removed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Given that poisoned whiskey had been one of the killers’ preferred methods, the priest sent word back warning Mollie “not to drink any liquor of any kind under any circumstances.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I had contrarily become something of a devotee of them because they are tough and give good protection against thorns, ticks, insects, and poison ivy—perfect for the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z On hearing this command one of the two, the one who bore the child, despaired and would hear no comfort or counsel, and procuring poison, committed suicide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Is it contagious? Does his sitting in this hogan mean that all of us are at risk of the same poisoning?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She had smell and touch and taste to help her, but touch and taste could be perilous when grinding poisons, and with some of the waif’s more toxic concoctions even smell was less than safe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Many cases of human poisonings are on record, most of them in connection with industrial handling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This is a poison you cannot see or smell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Masks were a form of spirit pollution, spreading poison from top to bottom in the country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At first I think the itchy pink bumps on my arms and legs must be poison ivy picked up at a lockout. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Birds picked up in a dying condition showed the typical symptoms of insecticide poisoning — tremoring, loss of ability to fly, paralysis, convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You’re an idiot. That stuff is poisonous. Look, it has a poison symbol right there on the can.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z At first I was terrified, shaking with the cold and the panicky flight of my heart, which seemed to be drowning as the poison rose up in my chest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After poison gas killed the announcer, she switched the radio off. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Here in Paris the best milk one can get is a veritable poison,” he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z By 1959 a thousand poisoned birds from this single community had been turned in or reported. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No one would have put it past her to poison the king, though he begged his subjects until his dying breath not to blame her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Her swords were drawn, shimmering with poison, and with her bat wings extended, she took up the entire corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "It's time I got to know my own son, who had his mind poisoned against me." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z On March 26, 1922, less than a month after Stepson’s death, an Osage woman died of a suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I have a thousand amazing memories of Jesse, but his suicide is leaking into those recollections, poisoning our past. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Filthy poisons. The government not going to trouble to keep the ditch dean, because the people who live along the ditch are all kongos “So there are many kongos living along the ditch?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She envisions an angry goddess stalking the halls, sending curses through the galleries like poison clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This utterly poisoned the talks, and the Eminent Persons Group immediately left South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped to his hands and knees, retching up the poison like a dog that had eaten rotten meat. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z While the quantities so received by human infants would normally be small, they are not unimportant because children are more susceptible to poisoning than adults. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In connection with the nearly universal use of insecticides that are liver poisons, it is interesting to note the sharp rise in hepatitis that began during the 1950’s and is continuing a fluctuating climb. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Does this mean all Holy Beings are at risk for radiation poisoning?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I bet they’d have given me poison ivy if they knew about me and June. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Marguerite, I have drunk poison and almost drowned and was buried alive before I escaped from Denmark. This is no lie, but truth,” I say, seeing her eyes grow wide. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z "For six days I’ve been suffering from the semi-annual poison ivy case—my sufferings are far from over," he tells his friend Bill Jacobs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s only one conceivable option: My parents were poisoned.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “The father of the great king Mithridates was assassinated at a banquet. He’d been poisoned, you see.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z My spiteful words delivered their poison, and my father flinched. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But in their whispered exchanges in the zeppelin, he’d explained about the power of his poison spurs: he couldn’t go on using them continually, because with each sting, the venom weakened. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Some of the other women with food poisoning weren’t so lucky and somehow had to find the energy to compete anyway. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He hurled himself at the giant, but Polybotes swept his hand through the water, leaving an arc of black oily poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Well, take Leontes in The Winter’s Tale. He tried to poison his friend, he threw his own wife in prison, and he abandoned his baby in the wilderness. So he’s the absolute worst. Right?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The thick leather rifle strap he was wearing stopped the poisoned arrow from tearing into him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Then Pa got snake bite .. “And Jesse ate the poison toadstools .. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as she and Theo know, Vincent is doing better since his last attack, when he tried to poison himself with paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Because, Cooter, their poison gets into your blood too quick. Within hours you commence swelling till your skin looks soft and rotten as a ripe peach left in the noonday sun!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “She has a fever. There is poison inside her.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I do not think you slept in poison ivy,” Werfel hinted. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z "I'm not supposed to poison your thoughts. Du Barry and the Beauty Minister gave me strict instructions not to tell you things." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Nothing about blusher mushrooms, nothing about poisons at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Also, she must still be either hating Mr. McAllister like poison or else loving his eyes out and having second thoughts about not getting annulled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z After marrying Morrison, Tillie grew suspicious of him, especially after Morrison was overheard talking about the effects of the poison strychnine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “They’re poisoning him. He’s too powerful to be killed by their stings, but their poison is keeping him paralyzed. He couldn’t do anything when they came and took his people. He could only watch.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A wraith struck her with its death-touched blade and the poison caused her heart to go cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Even if you don’t get enough to eat,” my mother railed, “that’s not license for you to go about eating poison!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people suggested poisoning the snails, and the committee thought about it briefly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z My mouth tasted horrible, and I tried to keep it shut for fear of poisoning the airplane. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Shun the crow’s nest and your enlightenment will be sweeter than its poison intoxication,” the captain tells me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Staring nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would be testing them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the term. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Mama, why didn’t I die from the poisoned food?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors whom investigators suspected of giving Mollie Burkhart poison instead of insulin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I knew that many of my favorite books, like the stories in Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, would be sorted away forever, declared poison under the new standards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably it was just his brain getting fried from poison fumes, but he croaked out a laugh. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The poison from the stingers makes me wobbly, but I find my way back to my own little pool and submerge myself in the water, just in case any wasps are still on my trail. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Ah, well, .someone had to take the blame. Lord Zeus was most upset. The tree he'd created from the spirit of his daughter, poisoned! Mr. D had to punish someone.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If the particle degraded within an hour, it would trigger a mechanism that would break the vial and poison the cat. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When threatened, the Lobalug contracts its venom sac, blasting the attacker with poison. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors said she’d died from leukemia, but Mom thought it was radioactive poisoning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In December 1926, Peace suspected that his wife, who was white, was poisoning him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The literature of veterinary medicine does not lack for cases of animals felled by swainsonine poisoning after grazing on forage contaminated with R. leguminicola. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The kids who did eat—including Princesse, who was in twelfth grade—got very sick, throwing up from food poisoning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A witness later testified that Peace had claimed his wife was feeding him “some kind of poison, that she was killing him.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I can try to heal the poison, my brave one.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Hokey the house-elf was convicted by the Ministry of poisoning her mistress’s evening cocoa by accident.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A liver damaged by pesticides is not only incapable of protecting us from poisons, the whole wide range of its activities may be interfered with. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The first link: Top ten common foods that can poison your bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But poison things and ugly things and cruel things kept crawling through her mind. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Jaja did not wait for their questions; he told them he had used rat poison, that he put it in Papa’s tea. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Heard about a new rat poison on the market. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess everything that comes out of the human mouth is poison,” said Doc warningfully. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we bring down all of the fire, it should vaporize all of the poison and leave behind only the third key!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "The poison has left my system, thanks to the leeches." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “I’d better tell you the rest of the story I told Weylin. If Sarah hears it all, she might teach you how to put a little poison in my food.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “You did! You saved my life, Duke! Just like you do on Dog Squad. Only, this wasn’t TV. This was real. With real poison. I could’ve gotten really sick.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z One major food category was nuts, especially chestnuts and walnuts, plus horse chestnuts and acorns leached free of their bitter poisons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If the best antidote for poisons is dilution, what better dilution than a chemical designed to add water and oxygen constantly for hundreds of years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Since he’s not underwater, the poison comes out of his wounds just as it went in, in wisps of fog that I take great care to steer clear of. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It knocked aside another and sprayed poison on a third, who retreated in,a panic, his armor melting. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “It is lucky that I know about the poison of the scorpion, otherwise—” and he shrugged to show what could have happened. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A hatred such as he had never known before was coursing through Harry like poison. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Perrington had given her the poison based on the king’s command, hadn’t he? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Captain Smith’s suspicion runs like poison through the settlement. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “You all heard Luke. The poisoning of the tree wasn’t Chiron’s fault.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Little by little, one small portion of a limb at a time, I soak the poison out of my wounds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a house-that-Jack-built sequence, in which the large carnivores had eaten the smaller carnivores, that had eaten the herbivores, that had eaten the plankton, that had absorbed the poison from the water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Once the poison is gone, you will not see me. You will not see the demons,” said the queen, sketching marks on Celaena’s brow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z While still in the air, he unscrewed the poison pin, keeping it in its small sheath; he then tossed the silver dollar to the ground below and returned the pin to his pocket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “You poisoned her? Why would you do that?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Would you call getting poisoned being interesting?” asked Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “It’s good. Why not? I like to take on a little load. It lets the poison out. Don’t you like champagne, Kate?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z If the police asked me what I did with the poison I bought, I would tell them I gave it to Spizz. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At least 40,000 people were instantly killed, and tens of thousands more fatally wounded or poisoned with radiation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Blood poisoning blew all his lymph nodes up to the size, of golf balls, stuck around for a month, and lost the battle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shielding me from the poison in my blood. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On February 23, 1927, weeks after Paul Peace vowed to disinherit and divorce the wife he suspected of poisoning him, he was injured in a hit-and-run and left to bleed out on the road. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It hissed, and a drop of poison from its mouth dripped onto Loki’s face, making his eyes burn. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Everyone else had a reason why they used poison, but I didn’t have a reason for what I did with it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Cerberin, aconite, conium, polonium—the poisons are all running together in my head.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He dropped dead of blood poisoning less than a year ago and the boy was only twelve years old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s poison. The ambulances are right here. They can take you to the hospital. Tell us, dammit!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Ralph, who came from a long line of intelligent mice, knew that most of his relatives had learned to avoid traps and poisons. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all robins receive a lethal dose, but another consequence may lead to the extinction of their kind as surely as fatal poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Marketed under trade names which give no hint of their nature, many of these preparations contain such poisons as mercury, arsenic, and chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Your dragon is doing fine. He and A-Gong were talking to each other when I brought the pot, and he even said thank you for saving him from the Green Tiger’s poison.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I had never heard of poisoned snakes around Elsinore, nor had I read of any such creatures in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Water and muck and Spackle skin worked fine together, didn’t poison nothing, just made the swamp richer, like men do to soil. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There, in a strange twist of nature, the fertilizer winds up poisoning the ocean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The bedroom’s in there. I expect a full night’s sleep from you, followed by a recitation of your poisons in the morning, in order of toxicity.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Maybe Athena’s eyes shot lasers, or the snake behind her shield could spit poison. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It is a willful action. To slip into passivity and allow a poison to do all the work is an embarrassment to who and what we are.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Extreme care must be used in order to create an insecticidal effect in the blood and tissues of the host without setting up a fatal poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Gardening is now firmly linked with the super poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “So are you saying that someone made them drink the poison, then threw the bottle in the trash? That’s absurd.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z "Do you think he died by happenstance, you purblind fool? Cersei had him poisoned, for fear he would reveal her. Lord Jon had been gathering certain proofs—" "—which doubtless died with him. How inconvenient." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His face was covered with old poison burns, gouges, and scar tissue, so it looked like the surface of an asteroid. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the Alexandrians poisoned the royal water supply, Caesar had his men dig new wells. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Powerful sprayers direct a stream of poison to all parts of the tallest trees, killing directly not only the target organism, the bark beetle, but other insects, including pollinating species and predatory spiders and beetles. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The poison of the Dobermans and their master began to thin, a little. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Our line of defense against invading poisons or poisons from within is now weakened and crumbling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Look where they got us. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Until that moment, I hadn’t been sure whom the poison was for. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I thought of Mother, and of the many times she’d told me that antibiotics poison the body, that they cause infertility and birth defects. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Is it ‘cleaner’ to be vaporized by H-bomb blast than to be poisoned by H-bomb fallout? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The oxygen was getting thin, but Jason hoped it might help expel the poison from his friend’s lungs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “That kind of poison would probably keep even me from coming back to life... for a long time, at least. My essence would be scattered and degraded. So I’m risking quite a lot.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The nurse says it’s not food poisoning, since no one else got sick but me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “We have a lot of medicines in this house,” Gay said in a raspy voice, “and chemicals and poisons. How long do we have? Do we need to call an ambulance?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Chemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Were those naive villagers collecting every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it home, poisoning themselves on most of the species, and nourishing themselves from only a few species? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every place they stayed was first secured by the King’s Guard, and every meal they ate was first tasted by the King’s chief taster to ensure that the food was not poisoned. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If there was poison in its bite, thought Septimus, the leather will have taken much of it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “How can you talk like that? Your words will fly up to heaven and call down the Angel of Death, Lilith’s bridegroom, with his poisoned sword.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A freshman girl attempted suicide—for entirely unrelated reasons—by eating poison berries from a bush outside the Music Building, but somehow this was all tied in with the general hysteria. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I say. Now you just say after me—‘I’ll take double poison and cut my throat if I tell.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The monstrous army swarmed him, but the Maeonian drakon flattened everything in its path, sweeping its tail and spraying poison while Damasen jabbed at Tartarus, forcing the god to retreat like a cornered lion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Merpeople use the Lobalug as a weapon and wizards have been known to extract its poison for use in potions, though this practice is strictly controlled. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I started putting the poison in his tea before I came to Nsukka. Sisi got it for me; her uncle is a powerful witch doctor.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until after we separated, on nights when Shoshana was asleep and I was lonely, that I wondered if perhaps my mother had poisoned my marriage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, were surrounded by people, cheering and singing along to a song I’ve never heard before, about a girl being poison. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps these were poison berries that just looked like delicious ones. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The Maeonian drakon spread its frilled collar and hissed, its poison breath filling the battlefield with the smell of pine and ginger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “The life you live, the hate you feel—it’s poison. I can drink it no longer.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Everything we need is here on this paper. Seven bottles: three are poison; two are wine; one will get us safely through the black fire, and one will get us back through the purple.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Several children had already been hospitalized with lead poisoning, the report had said. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z As it was, Jefferson had become a man “poisoned by ambition and his Temper embittered against the Constitution and the Administration.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "He was to jab himself with this poison pin," Khrushchev proclaimed, "which would have killed him instantly. What barbarism! Here it is, the latest achievement of American technology for killing their own people!" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to become an old, seasoned trouper when you painted poison on yourself every third day and ended up raving mad by the time you were twenty-five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Combinations of attractants and poisons are being tried against several insect species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her features, once beautiful, were badly burned from poison. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “That still sounds fishy, a poison counteracting a poison.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The Ghost doesn’t give me any more specific orders, doesn’t even tell me to stop taking my tiny doses of poison. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She’d have learned more about the city if she weren’t so focused on her poisons and weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Euron s gifts are poisoned, the captain had reminded himself the day the dusky woman came aboard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It’s the same poison that was released when the gods churned the Ocean of Milk. It will kill us. Please tell me you read the sign.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards admired their quality as they inspected the food for vials of poison or concealed weapons. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Clouds of dark viscous fluid - poison, perhaps - curled from his blue skin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Whatever. Ticks are everywhere. Same with poison ivy. If people let that stop them, nobody would ever go anywhere.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “They have poison inside them,” said Jule, still talking about the vipers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I hold one of her twitching hands, unclear whether it moves from the poison that affected our nerves, the shock of the attack, or withdrawal from the drug that was her sustenance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “And how did you know this tea cured the tiger’s poison ? ” “We found that out by accident,” Amah said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Just my breath, carrying my words out, might poison people and they’d curl up and die like the black fat slugs that only pretended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The poison has gone inward and it will strike soon. Come look!” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of them is used for the simple reason that it is a deadly poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Conditions were made to order for poisoning insect-eating birds, both in the poisons used and in the events set in motion by their application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I wake up the next afternoon with the taste of poison in my mouth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “And where will you lot traffick potions and poisons when my pub’s closed down? What’ll happen to your little sidelines then?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It means I have radiation poisoning. Very bad.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That was right after Daisy the cook got sold because she tried to poison Massa Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In recent years the State of California has reported an average of more than 200 cases of accidental parathion poisoning annually. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This bacterium actually kills by poisoning rather than by disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A bottle of ink was on the same shelf that held the poison. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If he possesses at birth some qualities that make him less susceptible than others to poisons he is more likely to survive and produce children. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Frank knew he had only seconds before the monsters trampled or poisoned him, but he couldn’t think. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But, if it was poisoned, she couldn’t leave it in. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Under the nails is the dirt of the trenches, it shows through blue-black like poison. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When the air gets to 1 percent C02, you start getting symptoms of poisoning. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing. It’s like where the bomb landed and the poison’s leeched into the banks, everything’s gone in all directions till you get further out.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And so it stayed trapped inside him, poisoning him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At last, King Claudius is dead, justly served his own poison. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Cordelia says that if you want to poison someone this would be a good way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now this lake, like all the industry-plundered Great Lakes, was poison, and a tall fence blocked it off from the overgrown streets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The drakon hissed, spitting jets of green poison that smoked on the mossy ground and set tar pits on fire, filling the air with the scent of fresh pine and ginger. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first knowledge of the symptoms of acute poisoning by DDT was furnished by several British investigators, who deliberately exposed themselves in order to learn the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The official cause of Henrietta’s death was terminal uremia: blood poisoning from the buildup of toxins normally flushed out of the body in urine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell my father about that last conversation I had with Danny, and I had many nightmares that year in which Reb Saunders screamed at me that I had poisoned his son’s mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He just wasn’t as attuned to food poisons as I was. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Meggie saw the viper's tiny poison fangs when it opened its mouth. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And what she had done was eat ywansyau filled with a kind of bitter poison, not candied seeds or the dull happiness of opium as Yan Chang and the others had thought. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel the weight of the gun, and its smoothness, and I forget about her; I forget about the poison; I forget about everything. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The others died—betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill: some form of poisoning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how much you poisoned them, shot them, scared them, trapped them, hated them, caged them, or generally raked over their habitat, you could not entirely kill all the coyotes, Joe thought. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life—the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing poison or stepping out of top-story windows, and the like. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that every meal we eat carries its load of chlorinated hydrocarbons is the inevitable consequence of the almost universal spraying or dusting of agricultural crops with these poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The poison used on Thalia’s pine is something from the Underworld, Percy. Some venom even I have never seen. It must have come from a monster quite deep in the pits of Tartarus.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He had been shouted at, threatened, and poisoned. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z By one means or another, the new generations suffer for the poisoning of their parents. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although today’s poisons are more dangerous than any known before, they have amazingly become something to be showered down indiscriminately from the skies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Avery is always fine. Of course, he gets into poison ivy and gets stung by wasps and bees and brings frogs and snakes home and breaks everything he lays his hands on. He’s fine.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Hoo said the tea tasted funny, maybe they had all been poisoned. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He even has pushers in the elementary school selling that poison for him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The poison that caused the collapse of the honeybees spreads to the human population, and, just as the bees did, humanity goes slowly mad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “He remembered,” she read on in a loud, clear voice, “and he was determined to be avenged—avenged upon those who were the cause of all this misfortune, whose cruelty poisoned the whole world.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I had eaten with relish: the food was good—void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Thor grunts in pain and then falls lifeless to the earth, poisoned by the creature he slew. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Some mushrooms and berries have poisons in them, and she made sure I knew exactly how terrible it would be to eat one of them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The air scalded his throat as it went down, and the smoke was like poison. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In Smilen Brothers a bearded white man bent nails with his teeth and talked about the poisons in our foods. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A chunk of meat was promptly found and poison spread all over it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Such ingenious manipulations have produced a battery of poisons of truly extraordinary power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You’d win the war with a new kind of poison gas!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was tempted to ask if she really had put poison in a fish, but I had learned never to take sides against my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For adult mollusks there is apparently less danger of direct poisoning, at least by some of the pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly I burst out: “They should be killed, Mama! They should be killed! They should be killed!” thinking that if indeed I had been poisoned, then the culprits had to die. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They won’t get homemade popcorn balls any more, though, or apples: rumors of razor blades abound, and the possibility of poison. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For one, it was radiation- poisoned ash; for the other, chemical dust. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Bobby, now so focused that he could hardly hear the growing murmur from the crowd, made his next moves percussively, shooting them out like poison darts, hardly waiting for Byrne’s responses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Woodcocks, which winter in Louisiana but breed in the North, now carry the taint of the fire ant poisons in their bodies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One night I read to Gertrude about a jealous official who killed his wife with poisoned salad greens because she had taken a young lover. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It feels so surreal to be in my room, with my stuffed animals and my books and my collection of poisons. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Arai wheeled overhead on leathery wings, making ghastly dark silhouettes in the poison clouds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Although the plants had been sprayed before the flowers were formed, the nectar later produced contained the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘Secondhand poison can kill a person, you know.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At either end of it an empty bottle of blue glass that once contained poison was fixed in the ground. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “He found out how right he was. We packed it away by the plateful and clamored for more. We all knew we were sick, but we had no idea we’d been poisoned.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z |
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