"Sal volatile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dined. My host, the head of the Manchuria Syndicate, was standing beside me, watching my recovery with a friendly and relieved expression, as though honestly glad to see me myself again. A servant, holding in his hand a bottle which appeared to contain sal volatile, was looking on from the foot of the bed, in an attitude of sympathetic attention. The other guests had left the room, and the state of the table, covered with half-filled glasses and hastily thrown down napkins, made it evident that ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... daughters were doing their best to keep her from fainting by the due application of sal volatile, though they themselves could scarcely restrain ...
— The Young Berringtons - The Boy Explorers • W.H.G. Kingston
... Let me be scrupulously particular. Sal volatile and water followed, to compose dear Mr. Godfrey's nerves. The explanation ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... herself, however, after she had been helped to her state-room and persuaded to swallow some sal volatile, but she still ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage
... have serious things to do now. I have a living to give away. You know Mr. Tyke and all the—" But Dorothea's effort was too much for her; she broke off and burst into sobs. Lydgate made her drink a dose of sal volatile. ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... now with sal volatile to his temple, his forehead, the palms of his hands, but I had no courage to feel his pulse, to ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... on the subject then, but when Katherine returned from the station after bidding her sister-in-law good-by, Miss Payne met her with a strong recommendation to take some "sal volatile and water, and to lie ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander
... mustn't take it like that. This is a great, deep, dark secret; you'll probably need your sal volatile. ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... said, as if she'd known me for years, stooping down and almost caressing me. "Jack,"—and she turned to a tall gentleman at her side,—"quick! you've got my black bag; get me out the sal volatile. She's quite faint, poor thing; we must look after ...
— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen |
