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Meanings of slow poison in English

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Usage of slow poison in English
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Money would only serve the purpose of a slow poison amongst you.
A People's Man
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Poison has been mixed with the medicine sent by me-a slow poison.
Milly Darrell
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Steve Wilde explores whether alcohol is Queenstown's lifeblood or a slow poison?
Radio NZ
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A slow poison that would eat at him for all our days.
Song of the Nile
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So the slow poison of praise crept into the boy's heart.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878
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To take so many endowments was like taking a slow poison.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
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No language can exaggerate the deadly effects from the slow poison of that negotiation.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of intellectual life.-DAVY ,Memoirs ,68
Lectures on Modern history
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Silence is commonly the slow poison used by those who mean to murder love.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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In other words, since the invention of air-tight stoves, thousands have died of slow poison.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
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Now I have found that for these nervous people animal food is a slow poison.
How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"
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He had baffled his enemies by taking slow poison.
China
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You've just been implanted with a slow poison drip.
In Fire Forged
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And even if she escaped the trolls claws, the slow poison would eventually paralyse her.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
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The air was heavy and unpleasant in his lungs, as if filled with a slow poison.
The talisman
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Gossip and needlework are only slow poison.
Maurice Guest
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