curari
- a variation of curare.
Example Sentences
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"There is not a doubt in my mind but that Captain Lloyd was killed by an injection of a solution of curari," declared Ward, positively.
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
"How did Mrs. Bennett learn that you had some curari?"
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
"What did you do on discovering the curari was gone?"
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
Its claims have been merely empirical, and its curative methods those of a blind art:— "Si vis curari, de morbo nescio quali, Accipias herbam; sed quale nescio; nec quâ Ponas; nescio quo; curabere, nescio quando."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
"Doctor, are you acquainted with the poison known as curari or curarine?"
From The Lost Despatch by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
