Sentence examples for cup of hemlock from inspiring English sources

Pour yourself a cup of hemlock.

He was given a cup of hemlock instead.

It is not one poisoner who brings Socrates the cup of hemlock; it is not one pupil who weeps.

He slit his wrists before begging for a cup of hemlock and retiring to a hot bath to expire.

Sentenced to die by an Athenian court on the charge of impiety, he serenely drank the fatal cup of hemlock.

It was true, at some times and in some places, that if the only purpose of a given execution was the irreversible removal of a particular politically inconvenient person, a cup of hemlock might be offered or an invitation to open a vein extended.

Here, cocktails flow like glistening cups of hemlock.

He was convicted and, resisting all efforts to save his life, willingly drank the cup of poison hemlock given him.

The poisoner described the physical effects of the Conium maculatum variety of hemlock used for citizen executions (Bloch 2001), then Socrates cheerfully took the cup and drank.

For the inside, Starck has designed a Japanese house, made of hemlock, with a gabled roof.

The New York State Hemlock Initiative fulfills its mission of hemlock conservation in part through biocontrol research.