Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think the hemlock is taking affect on Bill already. From Wordnik.com. [Puff This!] Reference
He has special ordered hemlock from a lumber yard 100 miles away. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Heavey's Deer Diary: Come Hell or Home Improvement] Reference
The usual verdure of the hemlock is very dark and glossy, lying in double rows flat upon the branches. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
The leaf of the hemlock is the only one that has a distinct leaf-stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Range: The hemlock is a northern tree, growing in Canada and the United. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
It's called the hemlock wooly adelgid and it's infesting hemlock trees across West Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [59 Top Stories, Sports and Weather] Reference
A sap-sucking relative of the aphid from East Asia known as the hemlock woolly adelgid helped drive hemlocks into decline. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Associated with it are Douglas-fir and other conifers such as hemlock and cedar. From Wordnik.com. [California Coastal Steppe, Mixed Forest, and Redwood Forest Province (Bailey)] Reference
Why then did I find this so instantly as I checked on "hemlock"?. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
(Hosea 10: 4) rendered "hemlock:" in (32: 33) and Job 20: 16 rosh denotes the "poison" or "venom" of serpents. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The Hebrew rosh is rendered "hemlock" in two passages, (Hosea. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
"Pine and fir and hemlock"; three evergreen trees. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The sheathing plank for the forms was 2-in. hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Salad of a bleached vegetable, akin to the hemlock of Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Weiss believes he's another wise man handed a goblet of hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon Old, Too Late Wise] Reference
He then drank off the cup of hemlock with philosophic composure. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Philosophers expounded their wisdom and Socrates drank the hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
Medium-sized tree, furnishes almost all the hemlock of the Eastern market. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
This exasperated the judges still more, and they condemned him to drink hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
If no pines are to be found in the vicinity, cedar or hemlock may be substituted. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
As a result, checks and ring shakes are very common in Western larch and hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
He pours hemlock in King Hamlet's ear and then swiftly marries his own sister-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [Ten of the best wicked uncles in literature] Reference
“No one would pay for the hemlock for him,” not since Cecrops 'wife was involved. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
Yes, that hemlock is pretty, and that fir -- but I guess we'll stick to the spruce. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
The most important of the narrow-leaved trees are the pines, firs, spruces, and hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
The stones with which it was crowded gleamed cold and ghastly in the light of the burning hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Powdered hemlock bark put into a piece of muslin and sprinkled on the chaps is highly recommended. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The leaf of the hemlock, like that of the balsam, is flat, but the hemlock leaf is much the shorter. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Young tree plantations of spruce, fir and hemlock are grown here for replanting those cut-over forests. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Heartbeats] Reference
Comparative study of common evergreens, as balsam, spruce, hemlock, etc.; collection of wood specimens. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
And clearly she has a dark view of men: hemlock is at the woody heart of her delicious fragrance Ormonde Man. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume: Start Making Scents] Reference
"There isn't a perfume house in the world that has a perfume with hemlock as an ingredient!" says Pilkington. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume: Start Making Scents] Reference
By the light of the stricken hemlock, she saw her brother coming toward the porch, holding Mary Fuller by the hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Kate got on her feet again, and, following the girls, all made their way to a spot entirely closed in with heavy hemlock trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
Looking more closely she saw it was a moose, with its horns entangled in the branches of a hemlock and buried to its flanks in the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The muslin curtains were bordered with wreaths of evergreens; festoons of hemlock and feathery pine tufts fell along the snow-white wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The shelves altogether are temporary structures built of ordinary rough scantling and hemlock boards, and the beds are all one board deep. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
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