What you are suggesting is that I provide you with a special substance-an illegal substance-that you will then administer secretly to Li Yuan's three wives.

She gives him no heir," Irulan said, her voice measuring out controlled calmness, "because I am secretly administering a contraceptive.

Finally Suhung decided to get rid of Debera Borbarua and put an end to his reign of tyranny, but the powerful minister outsmarted the king, by secretly administering poison in his medicine and putting an end to his life.

Garnet believed that it was his duty to observe (in disguise) the executions of his fellow priests, so as to secretly administer the last rites, and he may have been present at Southwell's execution at Tyburn in 1595.

The Baron then manipulates Hawat into his service, insuring his control over the Mentat by secretly administering to him a residual poison invented by De Vries; to avoid death, the antidote for this poison must be taken regularly and continuously.

The Bene Gesserit, desiring a son by Abulurd for their breeding program but finding Glossu unacceptable, secretly administer fertility drugs to an aging Emmi, who soon conceives Feyd.