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

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 Lewis, Alfred Henry

To this individual, as a kind of human calmative and tonic combined, Sir Roger de Launay was in the habit of going whenever he felt his own customary tranquillity at all disturbed.

From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie

Slipping her arm again under his head, she carefully administered a dose of the cordial which had been made up for him as a calmative against his sudden heart attacks.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie

Whatever comfort may lurk in curses, at least they carry no money profit; so after a fruitless session over coffee and maledictions, I arose, and as a calmative, walked down Broadway.

From The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 by Lewis, Alfred Henry