The problem was the poison soil, or so said the sciencemen.

train-of-four stimulation

For quotations using this term, see Citations:road rage.

It was easy to see that it was an avoided house—a house that was shunned by the village, to which my eye was guided by a church spire some half a mile off—a house that nobody would take. And the natural inference was, that it had the reputation of being a haunted house.