'It is slow-acting but will kill within five days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

It is well known that bones are a slow-acting manure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The venom of the khorkhoi, the doctor had warned me, was slow-acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference

'This one,' said Philip, 'contains a deadly poison, but it is slow-acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lion Of Macedon]

To a 60s person his administration was a kind of lethal and slow-acting poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years in the Streets] Reference

Hops, manuring of, 528; potash removed by, 217; slow-acting manures benefit, 528.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

If you want to garner attention, decline this public offer of slow-acting poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are you a health nut?] Reference

For me, it's the choice of drinking strychnine or drinking slow-acting strychnine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008] Reference

Sometimes it has two acids, a fast-acting and a slow-acting to make it double-acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Necessity is the Mother of Invention] Reference

While we all know we're supposed to celebrate with champagne, it's too slow-acting for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Ready! Here's How Your Info Will Come In] Reference

They see halting policy efforts and a stimulus plan that is too cumbersome and slow-acting.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Talks Up His Prescription for Economy] Reference

(Chinese medicine is slow-acting and preventative; Western remedies are quick and curative.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Human Rights in China: What Consumer Behavior Reveals] Reference

But he only appeared to be dead, thanks to a slow-acting poison administered to him on the cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethinking The Resurrection] Reference

A bit outdated and slow-acting, but I find it does its job including batch redating/renaming well.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXIF Date Changer Helps You Synchronise Photo Times | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Still, though it wasn't obvious in January, it now looks like a slow-acting federal stimulus is welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stimulus Remains Unpopular Even as It Boosts Growth] Reference

Then he must prepare the slow-acting poison that so closely mimicked consumption and form it into a thorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

They are slow-acting and work from 12 hours up to three days; best to build up gradually over 7 to 10 days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Types of Laxatives: How Each Works and the Risks they Pose] Reference

Like HIV, hepatitis C is a slow-acting virus that can be transmitted by shared needles and blood transfusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do You Have Hepatitis C?] Reference

Mitchell paid lip service in his press conference to “slow-acting” owners—calling it “a collective failure.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Sports] Reference

It has been pointed out that in the case of most crops quick-acting manures are to be preferred to slow-acting manures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The disease was known to be slow-acting, but there was no real certainty about its cause and there is no certainty today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tsongas....And The Cancer Question] Reference

"The Beginning," which the geologist finds necessary to account for the stupendous results wrought by slow-acting causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

I was on two injections a day, one in the morning and one at night; I mixed fast-acting insulin with the slow-acting kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Diagnosis] Reference

It, too, was trapped; this time with a slow-acting contact poison that was a natural component of the wood forming the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Rising]

I do not for one second believe there is any evidence that any slow-acting fertilizer was added to the lake earlier this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water at Lakeside] Reference

It is in fending off these pernicious, all-pervasive, and slow-acting social processes that we should concentrate our efforts. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emerging Water Wars] Reference

My confidence in the public's decency and in its unfailing, if sometimes slow-acting, commitment to liberal principles is robust.    From Wordnik.com.  [A More Perfect Union] Reference

Kaunda claimed that he suspected that if arrested, his father could be injected with a slow-acting poison and then released to die.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

With hops, however, the case is very different; for they require, and cannot be successfully cultivated without, slow-acting manures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

As it was, from an objective, outsider's point of view, such an all-consuming passion seemed nothing better than a slow-acting poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Secret Vengeance]

Her eyes sparkled with sudden lunacy, and I realized that a slow-acting floater must have exploded in her veins in the last few minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Describe symptomatic slow-acting treatments that are least recommended for OA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medscape Medical News Headlines] Reference