calmative
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Omniscient as Sherlock Holmes and calmative as Candida, Constance knows all about it and does not wish to be told.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Turkish bath is a calmative to the nervous and the vascular systems, and therefore of great utility in cases of sleeplessness.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
I states ag'in," he retorted, puffing a calmative cloud the while, "I states ag'in: Thar's no sooperstition ridin' the ranges of my breast.
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
No calmative of sleep or sage Will cure the fever to be free.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
He would let Storri vent his excitement, blow off steam, as Mr. Harley expressed it; and then he would go about those calmative steps of explanation and assurance suggested of the case.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
