Lexicographical Neighbors of Poysons
Literary usage of Poysons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch, Donato Acciaiuoli (1896)
"Now to make proofe of those poysons which made men dye with least paine, she
tried it upon ... For when she saw the poysons that were sodaine and vehement, ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... poysons to corrupt the manhood of resolution, destruction to quite cast away
the resolution of a just desert. Now, for a man's carriage in his ..."
3. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"But certis how by poysons hee, and all meanes sought my spoile, You may right
soone by ... But I, for mee when poysons were and swords to slay mee drest, ..."
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