This priest I was able to find, and though he proved a very argumentative fellow, who took it absurdly amiss that I should point out to him the
corrosive effect which modern science must have upon his beliefs, he none the less gave me some positive information.
Then he laughed frightfully, and suddenly became pale again, when he considered the most sinister side of his fatal passion, of that
corrosive, venomous malignant, implacable love, which had ended only in the gibbet for one of them and in hell for the other; condemnation for her, damnation for him.
Viaburi, the house-boy, brought him
corrosive sublimate and water, and he took a thorough antiseptic wash.
Others had noticed this peculiar habit of his, but not so Dowsett and Letton; and Daylight's secret thought was: "They sure wouldn't bat an eye if I called for a glass of
corrosive sublimate.
No mild saki for them, but square faces illicitly refilled with
corrosive fire that flamed through their veins and burst into conflagrations in their heads.
They gulped the stuff down with many facial expressions of delight, followed by loud lip-smackings of approval, though the liquor was raw enough and
corrosive enough to burn their mucous membranes.