A white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer.
1 It is the double-distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane , and adder's tongue.
2 You want a patent or a privilege for your ratsbane ?
3 Did I think he was so weak as bite holes in his flesh with ratsbane ?
4 Better mix ratsbane in the jelly cake.
5 If he wears a dagger and ratsbane , it must be to do mischief to himself or somebody else.
6 Give her ratsbane ! sneered Warner laconically.
7 Before him sat the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and ratsbane .
8 If his wife and children are not to be made over, he is not to wear a dagger and ratsbane in his pockets.
9 If his Lordship had sent me an infusion of ratsbane in the loving-cup, I should have taken it much more kindly at his hands.
10 Preaching, that was no better for their souls than ratsbane to the body, for filthy lucre's sake (O ye priests, this word is for you).
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