calmant

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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

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