Je suis dans ce moment à la recherche de ses complices pour approfondir ce plan de la plus noire scélératesse; et je ne veux perdre un seul moment pour en instruire V. M. I. et R., en la priant de m’aider de ses lumières et de ses conseils.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman
Bernard, C. —“Leçons sur les Effets des Substances Toxiques et Médicamenteuses.” Paris, 1857.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth
After a silent struggle between the two young men who shall speak last, Edwin Drood strikes in with: ‘So far as I am concerned, Jack, there is no anger in me.’
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
“You know well enough with what devilish ingenuity her young life was taken; how at the moment when she least expected danger she was cut off by a means so curious and with such swiftness as to baffle even the cleverest doctors in London.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux
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