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'He used to be ready enough to stand up for his order. 'My dear archdeacon, Mrs Grantly would say in reply, 'what is the use of always fighting? I really think the Master is right. The Master, however, had taken steps of his own, of which neither the archdeacon nor his wife knew anything. 'Then Mr Slope's successes were henbane to Dr Grantly; and Mrs Bold's improprieties were as bad.
THE HOP. The flowers and seed-vessels are used in gout and rheumatism, under the form of infusion in boiling-water. The powder formed into an ointment with lard, is said to ease the pain of open cancer. A pillow stuffed with hops is an old and successful mode of procuring sleep in the watchfulness of delirious fever. HYOSCYAMUS niger. HENBANE. Leaves and Seeds.
On certain occasions the mitre of the Jewish high priest was adorned with a chaplet of the blossoms of the henbane. Of the further use of garlands, we are told that the Japanese employ them very freely; both men and women wearing chaplets of fragrant blossoms. A wreath of a fragrant kind of olive is the reward of literary merit in China.
He has a perfect alibi hasn't he, Mr. Stone?" "He sure has, Fibsy. And yet he was in the party that discussed the possibilities of killing people by the henbane route." "Yessir but so was Mr. Patterson Mis' Desternay said so." "The Patterson business must be looked into. I'll attend to that to-day I'll also see Mr. Elliott about that matter of personal loans that Mr.
In the many curious tales related of the mystic henbane may be quoted one noticed by Gerarde, who says: "The root boiled with vinegar, and the same holden hot in the mouth, easeth the pain of the teeth.
That as he was sleeping in his garden, his custom always in the afternoon, his treasonous brother stole upon him in his sleep, and poured the juice of poisonous henbane into his ears, which has such an antipathy to the life of man, that swift as quicksilver it courses through all the veins of the body, baking up the blood, and spreading a crustlike leprosy all over the skin: thus sleeping, by a brother's hand he was cut off at once from his crown, his queen, and his life: and he adjured Hamlet, if he did ever his dear father love, that he would revenge his foul murder.
At this I marvelled and waited till the times were accomplished and I foregathered with thee. So Alaeddin took her to wife and said to her, 'I desire to return to my own country. 'If it be so, replied she, 'come with me. Then she carried him into the palace and hiding him in a closet there, went in to her father, who said to her, 'O my daughter, my heart is exceeding heavy to-day; let us sit down and make merry with wine, thou and I. So he called for a table of wine, and she sat down with him and plied him with wine, till he lost his wits, when she drugged a cup with henbane, and he drank it off and fell backward.
As soon as it was day, the Khalif went out into the sitting-chamber, and finding the eunuchs drugged with henbane, aroused them. Then he put his hand to the chair and found neither dress nor signet nor rosary nor dagger nor lantern; whereat he was exceeding wroth and donning the habit of anger, which was red, sat down in the Divan. 'How so, O Commander of the Faithful? asked the Amir.
See! here are other errors in which, no doubt, you partake, poor ignorant folks that you are, and from which I wish to free you. Dioscorides believed that there was a god in the henbane; Chrysippus in the cynopaste; Josephus in the root bauras; Homer in the plant moly. They were all wrong. The spirits in herbs are not gods but devils. I have tested this fact.
He took a meditative stride or two in the room, thinking without revulsion of the Countess Livia under a similitude of the bell of the plant henbane, and that his father had immunity from temptation because of the insensibility to beauty.
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