Taking pleasure in the failure of others has long been considered a grubby, poisonous quality.

However, I have no doubt of this stuff being of a poisonous quality, as it could answer no other purpose.

The hot dry dusty roads and the torn scrub abound with snakes and most of them of a virulently poisonous quality.

I told him that I had discovered copper, and that I attributed the poisonous quality of the water to the presence of that mineral.

He instructed him in the poisonous qualities of arsenic, and furnished him with an ample supply of that baneful drug.

Likewise the globe-flower has been designated the troll-flower, from the malignant trolls or elves, on account of its poisonous qualities.

There must have been highly poisonous qualities in this root, as the quantity eaten was nothing in proportion to the effects produced.

A traveller on the Amazons, mingling with the people, is sure to hear much of the poisonous qualities of the juices of this tree.

Several Chinese epicures died after partaking of soup made from a particular parcel, and "red prickly" was forthwith credited with poisonous qualities.

Aside from these are found certain coloring matters, certain acids and other matters which give taste, flavor, and poisonous qualities to fruits and vegetables.