Early in June Judith, walking in the wood, brought home the splendid red wood lily, and a cluster too of "ratsbane," with its flowers like a little crown of white wax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

If his Lordship had sent me an infusion of ratsbane in the loving-cup, I should have taken it much more kindly at his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

How many souls have they been the means of destroying by their ignorance and corrupt doctrine? preaching that which was no better for their souls than ratsbane to the body, for filthy lucre's sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Cossacks, galloped about in defiance of traps and ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference

Doolittle is a rat, and I will hire somebody to give him ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

It is the double-distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane, and adder's tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference

I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of King Henry IV] Reference

If he wears a dagger and ratsbane, it must be to do mischief to himself or somebody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of John Bull] Reference

If his wife and children are not to be made over, he is not to wear a dagger and ratsbane in his pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of John Bull] Reference

Before him sat the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey] Reference

Even Featley was struck by it, and called it “a little ratsbane in a great quantity of sugar,” and became somewhat more civil in consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton]

All possible endeavours were used also to destroy the mice and rats, especially the latter, by laying ratsbane and other poisons for them, and a prodigious multitude of them were also destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journal Of The Plague Year]

The news that Blair was coming to the evening meal was highly disconcerting, and the worried cook even contemplated the possibility of doctoring the American's plate of soup with ratsbane or hemlock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathleen] Reference

“I will, mine old Albumazar — I will, my trusty vender of ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

"a little ratsbane in a great quantity of sugar," and became somewhat more civil in consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference

Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [progress...] Reference

'I would as lief you had talked to me of ratsbane!'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

"I will, mine old Albumazar -- I will, my trusty vender of ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

Versailles) and Madame Pompadour will mix the least grain of ratsbane in one another's tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

ROSAKER, similar to ratsbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference

Is there not ratsbane of various kinds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Carlyle] Reference

Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Part of King Henry VI] Reference

You know no poison but plain ratsbane here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

(strychnine and whiskey, and ratsbane and beer!).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series] Reference

"Wouldn't ratsbane do?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

What's ratsbane an ounce? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

Give her ratsbane! "sneered Warner laconically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century] Reference