The knowledge had stung; but she was now engaged in drawing the venom out of the sting.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
In the following year it contained about one hundred houses scattered in all directions, with no regularity, with no dyke to protect them from the rolling waves, no fort to repel the incursions of the Indians; without the smallest luxury and comfort, without society, without religious enjoyment, reduced by disease and assailed by the venom of every tropical insect, did these enterprising sons of France struggle for existence and a town.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
There was venom in his eyes, and his pale, distorted features bespoke impotent rage.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon