D for Destroyed-#atozchallenge
“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 4.
Destroyed electrified fencing generates horse injuries. Jamila kneels, logically measuring nineteen oak posts.
“Quite reasonable, suspecting tools utilising venom. Wounds betrayed xiphoid cuts, yielding a zootoxin.”
Glossary:
Xiphoid shaped like a sword
Zootoxin poison derived from animal
Archibald’s ‘Horse of the Day’
http://www.paulaura.com/betgloss.htm
Dawn Run pulled off two great Doubles at Cheltenham in 1984 and 1986.
Jamila’s ‘Daily Poison’
http://www.britannica.com/science/poison-biochemistry/Types-of-poison#ref396648
Death Cap (Amanita phalloides);
Distribution: North America, Europe
Toxic principle: amanitine, phalloidine;
Symptoms develop slowly, about 6–15 hours after eating: extreme abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, anuria (absence or defective excretion of urine), prostration, weakness, jaundice, cyanosis, convulsion, death; fatality rate about 50 percent; no known antidote but some treatment available.
Word Links
http://phrontistery.info/glossaries.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adverbs.shtml
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/prepositions-list.htm
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The Challenge runs over 26 days – with Sundays off for good behaviour – and each day will be based on the alphabet, from A through to Z.
Read more about the Challenge I set myself in my Theme Reveal:
Blogging from A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal 2016
For more on the Blogging from A to Z Challenge and to visit the other brave bloggers, go to the official site and this linky list.
