Word: ratting
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...wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father-in-law. "He ate mushrooms at night," mourns Katerina Izmailova. "He dies like a rat?" bumbles the bibulous old priest. "That could not be so. A rat just dies. A man appears before...
...assure that all will return, actually makes the suicide pay double for his ticket to Death. Far too poor to pay President Hayashi 3 yen (85?) for a ticket to Suicide Point, many of Tokyo's suicides, which average four per day, die super-cheaply by eating rat poison...
...which a newborn rat has been steeped...
...once washed in Christ needs not to wash again." Author Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics and rat oil.* Eleven of the Athonite monasteries are cenobitic, holding to the strict monastic ideals of early Christendom. The rest are idiorrhythmic-liberal, individualistic and permitting their inmates to own property during their lifetime. All were once wealthy and politically powerful, drawing revenue throughout the Balkans and from Russia which furnished many...
...pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie, innocent accessory after the fact, was legally implicated in the murder. After terrific struggles of conscience Andi took a big chance, succeeded in getting the Lauretz case safely buried in the archives. Old Jonas' ghost...