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smelling-bottle

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small portable bottle or flask, usually of fanciful form or decorated, for containing smelling-salts, or for containing an agreeable perfume.

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Examples

  • Madame de Sourdis, when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to weep, through sniffling at her salts.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • If I will believe Boots when he gives me his word and honour upon it, the lady had got a parasol, a smelling-bottle, a round and a half of cold buttered toast, eight peppermint drops, and a hair - brush, — seemingly

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • She had almost taken it out to bring the queen to life again, when she put it back, and looked for the smelling-bottle.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • She had almost taken it out to bring the queen to life again, when she put it back, and looked for the smelling-bottle.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • Her house, enriched by gallant tributes, displayed the exaggerated magnificence of women who, caring little about the cost of things, care only for the things themselves, and give them the value of their own caprices, — women who will break a fan or a smelling-bottle fit for queens in a moment of passion, and scream with rage if a servant breaks a ten-franc saucer from which their poodle drinks.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • If I will believe Boots when he gives me his word and honour upon it, the lady had got a parasol, a smelling-bottle, a round and a half of cold buttered toast, eight peppermint drops, and a hair - brush, — seemingly

    The Holly-Tree 2007

  • But after a scene in which one person was in earnest and the other a perfect performer — after the tenderest caresses, the most pathetic tears, the smelling-bottle, and some of the very best feelings of the heart, had been called into requisition — Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Nan, holding a smelling-bottle to my nose, and no Mrs. Jewkes.

    Pamela 2006

  • She took her smelling-bottle, and would have given it me: but I said, Keep it in your hand; may be I shall want it: but I hope not.

    Pamela 2006

  • We came to the tent, and there we found my poor Jemimarann fainting; her mamma holding a smelling-bottle; the Baron, on the ground, holding a handkerchief to his bleeding nose; and Orlando squaring at him, and calling on him to fight if he dared.

    Cox's Diary 2006

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