Word: poisoner
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...Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death by taking poison to end a mortal illness...
...city streets were filled with an invisible, slow-working poison, touched and breathed by every passerby, so that vast portions of the population lost the use of some of their muscles, became impotent and sterile, sickened, sagged and died, that would be a very sorry pass indeed...
...anti-tobacco advocate. I merely believe that every human organism is capable of absorbing so much of a pleasurable poison and no more. By the time I had reached 65, I'd absorbed my quota of nicotine...
...distinction. Possibly she did once; a good many feet of film have gone through the camera since then. Here she is a siren of European capitals who marches about in white satin with a tall wand. Men kill themselves. She tries to kill herself. The maid shifted the poison, making it a "happy" ending...
...show is booked again. He still gives carnivora to the general. But now the wildest beasts are those individuals who frequent the circus in droves and have been known to strike women in the stomach with their fists when frustrated in the attempt to poison themselves with lemonade?the male children under twelve...