Sentence examples for poison work from inspiring English sources

She'd never seen the poison work before, she explains, all gentility.

"I see the Thoreau poison working today in many valuable lives," Emerson commented, "in some for good, in some for harm".

As his anguish slowly, inexorably accumulates — you can almost watch Othello's dark suspicions forming moment by moment as Iago's poison works its vile magic — his suffering all but pins you to the back of your seat.

At Powell's insistence, Tenet supplied the picture of the Zarqawi poison works in northern Iraq that Kurds told us for years was the redoubt of Al Qaeda escapees from Afghanistan.

This poison worked, and more and more plants decided to use such a survival strategy.

The poison works by overloading the predator's internal system with chemicals, prompting regurgitation, muscle spasms, vomiting, and intestinal convulsion hence the sick buckets at kambo ceremonies.

Thus, a poison works by blocking the transmission of electric signals between neurons.

Many people who set bait traps do not realize the poisons work their way up the food chain, researchers say.

McConnell's pitch to the town has relied on the same -- keeping the plant open with federal money, and helping to start a program that provides free health care to workers who had been poisoned working in the facility's hazardous conditions.

Poison will work, but it poses some problems.

The man answers that his feet will grow numb, then his legs; then the poison will work its way up to his heart.