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But as physicians use cantharides, believing that, though their bodies be deadly poison, yet their feet and wings are medicinal and are antidotes to the poison itself, so must we deal with poems.
Saint-Prosper returned the manager's glance in kind; Barnes' candor and simplicity were apparent antidotes to the other's taciturnity and constraint.
'I have given death into your dear Gabriel's hand, he said, 'into your hand, my daughter, I give life, and surely that is something much more rare and precious. He has the poisons; I give you the antidotes. They are worth tons of gold; they are my most precious treasure, and twenty years have I labored ere I discovered them.
Mr Gwynne had reproached her for her absence, and she had declared that she hated to be so long without talking, and that chess and young Prothero were perfect antidotes to conversation. 'That ancient, Saracenic game, as Mr Jonathan Prothero calls it, played by a Goth, she said, 'is beyond my store of politeness.
Witness his 'Wit and Humour' and his 'Imagination and Fancy, to my mind the greatest treasures in the way of handbooks that have ever been offered to students of English literature, and the completest antidotes to pretence in it.
But, if there were poison in my body, should I not, possessed of antidotes and knowledge how to use them, use them? If there be poison in my mind, and through this fearful shadow I can cast it out, shall I not cast it out?" "Say," said the Spectre, "is it done?" "A moment longer!" he answered hurriedly.
Hence the cause why the fowl died in five minutes and the ox in five and twenty. Indeed, were it the case that the smallest particle of it introduced into the blood has almost instantaneous effects, the Indian would not find it necessary to make the large arrow: that of the blow-pipe is much easier made and requires less poison. And now for the antidotes, or rather the supposed antidotes.
Being a very well-read man himself, he had been the first to learn from the newspapers of the approach of that dangerous contagious sickness, the antidotes against which were still unknown.
"Galen!" said Marcia, sitting up suddenly. The old man blinked. He recognized decision sudden and irrevocable. He clenched his fingers and his lower lip came forward by the fraction of an inch. "I must save my Christians. What do you know about poisons?" she demanded. "Less than many people," Galen answered. "I have studied antidotes. I am a doctor.
Phœbe Bird. "He's eaten some poisonous plant." "If we only knew what it was," added the Pine Grosbeak, "we might help him. There's an antidote for every poison." "Yes," assented the Purple Finch, "but not knowing the kind of poison, we can't prescribe the antidote." "Why not," suggested the Crested Flycatcher, "give him all the antidotes, and then we're sure to give him the right one."
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