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smelling salts |
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smelling salts Noun, pl a preparation containing crystals of ammonium carbonate, used to revive a person feeling faint
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| Lady Carey disembarked, a complete wreck, leaning on the arm of her maid, and with a bottle of smelling salts clutched in her hand. Waltzing, I blush to own it, means picking me up off the floor, and putting smelling salts to my nostrils. It was evening, and Bradley was walking in his garden observed from behind a blind by gentle little Miss Peecher, who contemplated offering him a loan of her smelling salts for headache, when Mary Anne, in faithful attendance, held up her arm. |
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