dissolvent

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This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

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

In spite of these fine arguments, at the end of a week a looseness ensued, with some twinges, which I was blasphemous enough to saddle on the universal dissolvent and the new-fangled diet.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

As in the case of Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph