Venomed

Because cursing calls on the thinking and feeling pathways of the brain in roughly equal measure and with handily assessable fervor, scientists say that by studying the neural circuitry behind it they are gaining new insights into how the different domains of the brain communicate - and all for the sake of a well-venomed retort. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Even Moloch's lurid furnace was easier than the death promised by this rending and ripping vibration that armed sound waves with venomed talons. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

I've known some on 'em do as mich, and some o 't' bonniest and mimmest-looking, too - ay, I've seen clean, trim young things, that looked as denty and pure as daisies, and wi 'time a body fun' 'em out to be nowt but stinging, venomed nettles. ' ❋ Unknown (2004)

And so matters grew from bad to worse, and these contending parties never hit at each other with some venomed wrath as they did now; — having entered the ring together so lately with such manifold promises of good-will, respect, and forbearance! ❋ Unknown (2004)

He betrayed no weakness which harassed all your feelings with considerations as to how its faltering must be propped; from him broke no irritability which startled calm and quenched mirth; his lips let fall no caustic that burned to the bone; his eye shot no morose shafts that went cold, and rusty, and venomed through your heart: beside him was rest and refuge — around him, fostering sunshine. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Hope! guide the fainting pilgrim! undying soul! shield him from the world's venomed darts, as he painfully wends his toilsome way! ❋ A Bushman (N/A)

The anonymous slander of the one was circulated through all France by the other; and spleen and disappointment feathered the venomed arrows shot at the heart of power by malice and ambition. ❋ Mme. Du Hausset (N/A)

Thou hast been playing unaware with a queen-cobra, that has smitten thy soul with the poisonous fascination of its magnificent hood and its deadly eyes, and bitten thy heart with its venomed fang; and now all remedies are worse than useless, and come too late. ❋ F. W. Bain (N/A)

Circe's venomed flagon embruted less than doth the ❋ Various (N/A)

O'Haras, and famed in her day for a caustic tongue and a venomed pen. ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

THEY set the legs of Cunningham's string-woven bed into pans of water, to keep the scorpions and ants and snakes at bay, and then left him in pitch darkness to his own devices, with a parting admonition to keep his slippers on for the floor, in the dark, would be the prowling-place of venomed death. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)

He mused somberly upon the venomed injustice of womankind. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)

Then even the venomed crawlers that he knew were near him faded into nothing that really mattered, compared to the greater, stealthy horror that he knew was coming, born of the shuddersome, shut silence that ensued. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)

Through it venomed glance and bitter tongue might not pass; as Sanchia's anger rose the two lovers looked into each other's eyes and laughed. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)

He goes into the wintry forest of life, where "one whose voice was venomed melody" entraps and poisons his youth. ❋ Sydney Waterlow (1911)

When I tell you my countenance was quite covered over with blisters, where not disfigured by the welts inflicted by the venomed darts of the mosquitoes, you will perhaps more readily understand what these efforts to assume a buoyant bearing and a happy expression cost me. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)

No longer shall slander's venomed spite crawl like a snake across his perfect name ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)