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 Rea Irvin
This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.
From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa
First, that the Air in which we live, move, and breath, and which encompasses very many, and cherishes most bodies it encompasses, that this Air is the menstruum, or universal dissolvent of all Sulphureous bodies.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
