knockout drops
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"The same old knockout drops, sir, that sailors in all parts of the world know so well, sir, I think," answered one of the men, with a quiet grin.
From The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis by Victor G. Durham
At first I thought it might have been the hackneyed knockout drops, but tests by the coroner's physician eliminated that.
From The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
He had a horror of knockout drops and the police.
From K by Mary Roberts Rinehart
He never saw a bludgeon in his life; and he scorned knockout drops.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
After it was all over, and most everybody that counted had swallowed knockout drops, Marjorie gives me a sidelight on what's been runnin' through her head.
From Torchy by George Brehm
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