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    Use "deadly nightshade" in a sentence

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    deadly nightshade


    1. They were employed as ornamental plants in flower gardens and because they were of the same family as the deadly Nightshade plant they were believed to be poisonous


    2. Samantha Olsen had chosen Atropa Belladonna as her instrument of destruction as she adored the colloquial name of the plant, Deadly Nightshade


    3. Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs, of species hitherto unknown, that would start up under his fingers? Or might it suffice him, that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch? Did the sun, which shone so brightly everywhere else, really fall upon him? Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity, whichever way he turned himself? And whither was he now going? Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance? Or would he spread bat's wings and flee away, looking so much the uglier, the higher he rose towards heaven?


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