ratsbane
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ratsbane
Example Sentences
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Oh! when I remember that, while I sit here in comfort, perhaps my poor boy lies dead in some savage place: and all along of that girl: there, her very name is ratsbane to me.
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They are hyphenated unless very common, in which case they are closed up; crane’s-bill, ratsbane.
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For my own part, I would as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as the ‘excellency’ with which I am daily crammed.
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Early in June Judith, walking in the wood, brought home the splendid red wood lily, and a cluster too of “ratsbane,” with its flowers like a little crown of white wax.
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It is the double-distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane, and adder's tongue.
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