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
As the note struck, an expression of paregoric bliss passed over his infant features.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills.
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.
