sal-volatile

'I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,' Alice suggested: 'or some sal-volatile.'

Go Sox Becca 2005

Were I to give the catastrophe of your life and conversation, the public would sweep off in shrieking hysterics, and there would be a wild cry for sal-volatile and burnt feathers.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

MRS. LECOUNT mixed the sal-volatile with water, and administered it immediately.

No Name 2003

Her firm hand trembled as she opened her dressing-case and took from it a little bottle of sal-volatile.

No Name 2003

‘I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,’ Alice suggested: ‘or some sal-volatile.’

Through the Looking Glass 2003

My experience in such matters at once informed me that it was a case of sal-volatile, accompanied by sound advice.

No Name 2003

Starting and screaming, and drugged with sal-volatile, I got through that night of supernatural terror, and saw the blessed light of heaven again.

Uncle Silas 2003

I was wandering about for hours looking for an imaginary bottle of sal-volatile Jane described as being in her sitting-room: and Jane herself was up till late -- or rather early -- this morning, trying to soothe Mrs. Molyneux, who does not appear to have found the ghost quite such pleasant company as she expected.

Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

With this she rose and poured some drops of sal-volatile into water, and put it to her secret rival's lips: it was kindly done, but with that sort of half contemptuous and thoroughly cold pity women are apt to show to women, and especially when one of them is

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

The bride's prattle deepened into moanings and complaints; she was laid on the sofa, covered with shawls, and supplied with sal-volatile and smelling-bottles by her devoted spouse, who began to look deadly pale himself.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston