Death Cup

I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. ❋ Stephanie (2009)

I like my sister Con - stance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. ❋ Oates, Joyce Carol (2009)

Even Caesar himself had to fall at last, his strong soul perhaps not sorry to escape through his dagger-wounds from so pitiably small a world; and the poison in the death-cup of Socrates was not so much the juice of the hemlock as the venom of the gossips of Athens. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)

And of all the crimes of which men of my colour stand attainted, the offering of this death-cup to our red brothers is, I think, the wickedest and the most contemptible. ❋ Unknown (1899)

It is the active principle of the most deadly of all mushrooms, the _Amanita phalloides_, or death-cup fungus. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)

By mistake, or by the contrivance of the Cardinal, who may have bribed this trusted agent, they drank the death-cup mingled for their victim. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

O'erthrow him in ruin and abject shame, * Make him drain the death-cup in fatal fray. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

So Gharib and Sahim and their hundred horse rushed upon the foe, and Gharib's wrath redoubled, and he reaped a harvest of heads slain, giving the champions death-cup to drain, till he won to Al-Hamal and saw Mahdiyah among the captives. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

It presents a rather attractive appearance, being rather large, and having a glistening white cap with a long stem, around which there may always be seen a distinct collar; on carefully removing the soil from around its roots, it will be seen that its stem is surrounded just below the surface of the earth by a sheath-like structure, the so-called "death-cup," which, together with the peculiarities already mentioned, clearly stamp this mushroom as being one of the most deadly of all known natural objects. ❋ Unknown (1896)

So Gharib and Sahim and their hundred horse rushed upon the foe, and Gharib’s wrath redoubled, and he reaped a harvest of heads slain, giving the champions death-cup to drain, till he won to Al – Hamal and saw Mahdiyah among the captives. ❋ Unknown (2006)