It was a //ye hand that held Ipy head down in the lake to drown, and a live hand that dropped poison into the wine that Yatunose and Sobek drank.

All shops, unless it be the Bakers' and Vintners', are shut: Paris is in the streets;--rushing, foaming like some Venice wine-glass into which you had dropped poison.

'Anyone could have dropped poison into his food,' objected James stolidly.

A VOICE: She dropped poison upon me as I passed.

The cruel teeth, the steady sneer, The marvellous lust of her, I bring Unto my body bright and clear (Dropped poison in a water spring!)

The 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank features a scene in which the main character, assassin Martin Q. Blank, attempts to drop poison into his target's mouth through a hole in the ceiling, the same method used in Stalker in the Attic.

Then the Trust began eliminating pests by dropping poison, starting with brodifacoum in November 2006.

He said Darman "dropped poison" on new ideas to maintain his power and brought "a really sick attitude" to the poverty debate.

Loft said anxiously, "They haven't dropped poison yet."