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Smelling salts   Listen
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Smelling salts  n.  An aromatic preparation of carbonate of ammonia and, often, some scent, to avoid or relieve faintness, headache, or the like.






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"Smelling salts" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes stun a person, and he will remain unconscious. Untie strings, collars, etc.; loosen anything that is tight, and interferes with the breathing; raise the head; see if there is bleeding from any part; apply smelling salts to the nose, and ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... all right when you get her into her room. Give her some smelling salts, and don't tell your father. Didn't ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

... said, feeling for her smelling salts. "I don't know that I blame her, Tish. No one knows better than I do what it is to expect to be married, and then find the ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... out to the drug-store for smelling salts and containers of hot black coffee—not that I knew what I was doing, of course, but they were dead set against calling an ambulance. And the boys didn't seem to be in any particular danger, ...
— The Day of the Boomer Dukes • Frederik Pohl

... wreck, leaning on the arm of her maid, and with a bottle of smelling salts clutched in her hand. She slept all the way in the train, and only woke up when they were nearing Paris. She looked at ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... no grace in the savage gestures of his arms as his wrists twisted and writhed in their shackles, but he stuck to his task desperately, now and then hissing over his shoulder at Bateato to learn why in thunder he didn't find smelling salts or whiskey or brandy or something with which to restore ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie



Words linked to "Smelling salts" :   preparation, formulation, spirits of ammonia



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