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nounanything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal

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And as the venemous spider wil sucke poison out of the most holesome herbe, and the industrious Bee can gather hony out of the most stinking weede: Euen so the discrete reader may take a happie example by the most lasciuious histories, although the captious and harebraind heads can neither be encoraged by the good, nor forewarned by the bad.
TABLE 1 Representative papers on Medical and Veterinary Entomology published in the Revista de Biologia Tropical during the first 50 years of the journal Venemous spiders Trejos et al.
Krimsky cites the example of award-winning and personally courageous London Independent reporter Robert Fisk, who "seldom avoids taking a venemous swipe at American and Israeli behavior, while dismissing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Washington puppet," implying that Fisk loses potential influence by being too predictable in his analyses.
But the full-back's venemous strike was well blocked as it bombed goalward.
In stanzas which are loosely based on Psalms 15, 64, and 68, Lanyer describes the Countess's enemies as "double-hearted" individuals, "who with their tongues the righteous Soules do slay" (105, 106): "As venemous as Serpents is their breath, / With poysned lies to hurt in what they may / The Innocent" (117-19).
From the opening minute when Shearer stung Philippe Felgen's fingers with a venemous shot it was clear the England skipper knew the football gods had sent him manna from heaven.
In a June 3, 1998, interview, milw0rm members savec0re, VeNeMouS, and JF stated that they had entered the site through its Sendmail program and reiterated their protest against the Indian government's nuclear tests.
In a further analogy with face-painting that takes us back to the starting point of this essay, this strange synesthetic contamination was routinely understood in terms of poison by its detractors: Gosson refers to plays as "ranke poyson" and "venemous arrows to the mind," and Greene claims they are "as bad Poyson to the Minde, as the byting of a Viper to the Flesh."(79) Downame similarly argues that plays "poyson the mind with effeminate lust."(80) Although in the case of face-paints the association was clearly catalyzed and reinforced by the fact of their chemical ingredients, the parallel example of theater seems to absorb the principle by analogy, transcending the need for a material explanation.
Thackeray blamed corrupt Indian financiers and distilled his blame into the venemous portrait of the Merdle-like arch-villain, Rummun Loll (who in addition to his other vileness has a taste for European women).
Mick was strimming at his allotment at Cheslyn Hay, near Walsall, when the adder - Britain's only venemous snake - struck.