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Examples
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And drench'd in pois'nous juice, the sure destruction flies.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Are swept like pois'nous spiders 'webs for ever from the scene,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Well may it droop, and all its freshness lose, Compell'd to taste the rank and pois'nous steam Of midnight theatre and morning ball Gire to repose the solemn hour she claims; And from the forehead of the morning steal The sweet occasion.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844
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What pois'nous breath chill'd freedom at its root,
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Whose banks infect the breeze with pois'nous flow'rs.
Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796
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Whose banks infect the breeze with pois'nous flow'rs.
Sappho and Phaon 1796
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Midst pois'nous smokes and steams, and rattling looms;
The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem Robert Bloomfield 1794
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The pois'nous springs from learning's fountain rise;
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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The pois'nous springs from learning's fountain rise;
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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The pois'nous springs from learning's fountain rise;
The Village and the Newspaper George Crabbe 1793
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