paregoric
Example Sentences
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Diarrhea, I told our friend the doctor, who didn’t give me paregoric, prescribed tea and apple.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2016
Typical is the young graduate who in 1932 arrived in Fayetteville, Tenn. with bottles of paregoric and liniment, a roll of gauze, pair of scissors, $1 cash, a diploma.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the note struck, an expression of paregoric bliss passed over his infant features.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Only that big? It felt like a house. Look, dear,” said Faye, “open that second drawer where my medicine is. Bring the paregoric and a piece of cotton. Will you help me pack this tooth?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
