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Doctor John Boyd is the only person who has any curari in this city—to that I am willing to swear.
From The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
I had just been making some physiological tests, and the bottle containing the curari was on my table.
From The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Yew was anciently employed as a poison in Europe, much as is the curari to-day in Central America.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
"What did you do on discovering the curari was gone?"
From The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
"How did Mrs. Bennett learn that you had some curari?"
From The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
