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smelling salts

noun as in faintness relief

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Example Sentences

All, that is, save Nina's ayah, who opportunely produced a bottle of smelling-salts and passed it to the mem-sahib.

She relapsed into a weak giggle, and Hyacinth stooped for the bottle of smelling-salts, which had rolled under the sofa.

Oh, she is going to faint, cried dismayed Nathalie, while the mother rushed to the dresser for the smelling salts.

"It's made me positively ill," complained Mrs. Stuart, busy with her smelling-salts.

Mrs. Carroll, roused from her reading, laid aside her novel and bottle of smelling-salts to take the letter.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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