Usage examples (5)

• He also asserts that no counterpoison is known and if this be true he confers a boon upon the Locustæ and
• It is such a subtile and insinuating poison that it spreads universally, and infects the most precious ointments of the soul, and, as it were, poisons the very antidote and...
• For hurts and wounds here is balm; here, for poison, is counterpoison .... "
• I said to her: "Niece" (by which appellation I always addressed her), "I beg you will let me know who told you that Madame d'Orleans had taken a counterpoison unknown to us.