dissolvent

Example Sentences

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The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.

From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea

Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Every year we see thousands rush to warm and cold springs that have the reputation of being possessed with dissolvent and cathartic properties.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

No more powerful dissolvent for the self-complacency of humanity was ever composed.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

And how did Goethe, that grand dissolvent in his age when there were fewer of them than at present, proceed in his task of dissolution, of liberation of the modern European from the old routine?

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage