Gulliver's Travels
How were the Wrong-doers executed in Luggnagg?
How were wrong doesd executed in luggnagg
How were wrong doesd executed in luggnagg
From the text:
There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
Gulliver's Travels