calmant
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Four years had come and gone since Mr. Dundas had laid his second wife in the grave beside his first, and the county had discussed the immorality of taking cherry-water as a calmant.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
The little glass of calmant was untouched; it was not a drug that had soothed the exhausted nerves.
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon
But her cherry-water was a pleasant and safe calmant, and she knew exactly how much to take.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
