The flying pieces of glass injected the poison as by a myriad of hypodermic needles -- the highly poisonous toxin of abrin, product of the jequirity, which is ordinarily destroyed in the stomach but acts powerfully if injected into the blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Had it been the same person who had sent the single jequirity bean?. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Shirley died of jequirity poisoning, or rather of the alkaloid in the bean. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
"You remember," she cried, breathlessly, "you said that a jequirity bean was sent to Captain Shirley?". From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Kennedy continued looking at the remainder of the jequirity beans and a liquid he had developed from some of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Did the same explanation shed any light on the mystery of the nautch - girl and the jequirity bean sent to Shirley?. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
Wecker, was the first to employ jequirity for this purpose, in the form of a 24 hours 'maceration of the seeds, 10 grams to 500 grams of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Late though it was, in the laboratory Kennedy set to work examining the dust which he had swept up by the vacuum cleaner, as well as the jequirity beans he had taken from Mrs. Anthony's jewel-case. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
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