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The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows.
More than 95 percent of the mature Fraser firs in the park are dead, robbed of their lifeblood and poisoned by a toxin injected by the adelgid.
The 38-year-old lawyer was poisoned with arsenic on September 7, 2004, while flying to the Netherlands.
Grizzly bears and bison were exterminated, and coyotes and prairie dogs were shot on sight and poisoned.
Victor has been poisoned, and that bolt is spiked from the head to its fletching.
The title of women's world 100 and 200 metres champion is turning out to be a poisoned chalice.
We could, he implied, be fried, blown up, poisoned or atomised any day now.
The issue of skills shortages should not be a poisoned chalice for those politicians handed the responsibility of dealing with it.
I was sadly told the other day that a large majority of the cats had been poisoned to death.
The reality is that Scotland's councils find themselves being handed an ever-growing collection of poisoned chalices.
Not without reason, Americans worried that they could be poisoned by illuminating gas or burned by electrical fires.
Who would want the poisoned chalice of running Britain's clapped out and dangerous rail system?
As poisoned chalices go, the MD's position comes close to topping the list.
Silverware reacted sensitively to possibly poisoned food by turning such food a different color.
His ability to drink from what was seen as a poisoned chalice and come up smiling will stand to him in the challenges that lie ahead.
A prize portfolio could mean a headstart in the race, but those overlooked or given poisoned chalices would be early casualties.
For those with debts they can no longer afford, the long run of low interest rates may yet prove a poisoned chalice.
The catalysts are easily poisoned by lead, however, which clogs their reactive surfaces.
In any case most observers believed the atmosphere was so poisoned that any ceasefire would be as meaningless as those which preceded it.
Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In a little while, the Oryctes is a noisome mass on which the nurseling lies poisoned.
It only confirmed Mike's opinion that between them they had poisoned Lucretia.
Their look was sure death, but they could be poisoned by a draught compounded of agrimony, dill and vervain.
It was about this time that the artful Countess Olga began once more to drop poisoned words about the court concerning Alcyone.
The late King Ninus was poisoned by Assur, who had been promised the throne.
About their deaths she only tells us through the dirge by Moschus, that Bion was poisoned.
If ever calumny aims the poisoned shaft at them, may friendship be by to ward the blow!
When cardiac muscle was poisoned with caffein, microscopical examination showed that the striations disappeared.
It is this unaccomplished, uneasy metamorphosis that tore the social fabric of cee apart, rendering it poisoned and dysfunctional.
He was in constant fear of being poisoned, and had his food prepared by a Cordelier lay-brother.
This was his last exploit, for it led to Deianira's sending him the poisoned robe which caused his death.
Depraved surroundings, a court at which the satiating of all desires is the main theme of the day, have poisoned her thoughts.
Did not evenhanded justice ere-long commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips?
The excreta of that army of sick poisoned the air with their noxious emanations.
Pretending to be repentant and charitable, he sent poisoned bread and wine to the Servite monastery.
But acting on the theory that Jack might have been poisoned by something he had eaten the doctor used a stomach pump.
A man that examined him by Papa's desire, said there was no doubt that he had been poisoned by strychnine.
He made up his mind, therefore, to let Theseus drink off the poisoned wine.
It was his malignity that poisoned her last years, which, but for him, would have been happy.
Others relate that he was poisoned by a mantuan painter whom he had injured.
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