sanative

Example Sentences

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Smeared with that sanative soil, he might have been born again—no more a leper.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Sleep, in short, if not a "matchless" sanative, is at least a universal one.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

After the great revulsion from the excesses of the French Revolution, she was with him a continually sanative influence. 

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell

Nevertheless, this arrow with its barbed hooks was torn out of my heart; and the question then was, how the inward sanative power of youth could be brought to one's aid.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng