He might put arsenic in my soup, or strychnine in my bread.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
At last Mac Fane determined himself to go to London and buy arsenic, on pretence of poisoning rats, and to set off immediately.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Mac Fane related the difficulty he had found in getting the arsenic; that several shops had refused him; and that at last he had succeeded by ordering a quantity of drugs, for which he paid, leaving them to be sent to a fictitious address, and returning back pretending he wanted some poison for the rats, asking them which was the best.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft