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• Finally, there was an abnormal proliferation of texts narrating the tales of the few wives who actually poisoned their husbands.

• The "poisoned gems" send her into a state of hysterical nervous shock because she is already primed internally by apparitions signifying her remorse.

• What little 'trickle-down' there was trickled mainly into provincial capitals, and local people themselves were often left with little but denuded hillsides and poisoned rivers.

• Is 'masculinist' a term so poisoned that no respectable feminist will touch it?

• Deconstructing the gift, he demonstrated its radical impossibility: a true, pure and altruistic gift does not and cannot exist; gifts are always poisoned.

• We cannot be sure, but many people believe, to this day, that he was poisoned.

• There together with a few other fellows he poisoned a rich lady with the intent to rob her.

• He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisoned chalice.

• It is unlikely that texts with such uncompromising standards for women would have been silent if wives frequently poisoned their husbands.

• Therefore, if a wife survived her husband, it was reasonable to assume that she had poisoned him.

• One report claimed that someone had taken some longicorn beetles from the mountains and cast them into the inlet, which poisoned the water.

• Nowhere in these labyrinthine catalogues of crime and punishment does one see references to women who poisoned their husbands.

• Another explanation that may apply in some cases is that an unpopular government can plan to leave a poisoned fiscal chalice.

• First, it is a retribution for the presumed sins of the widow : if her husband was dead she must have poisoned him.

• Shepherds may have also been poisoned by the chemicals used in treating various sheep diseases.