It was well that her mind, which had been overtaxed and strained by the intensity of her religious fervour, and by its unbroken continuity of introspection, should be brought into a more healthful state by this bitter tonic of joylessness.

She acted as a spiritual tonic to both Mr. Tutt and Tuttespecially to the latter, who was the more in need of it.

The chronic form of bronchitis will always yield, if the dog is young, to careful feeding, moderate exercise, and the exhibition of cod-liver oil with a mild iron tonic.

How would birchen bark, as an educational tonic, have fallen in repute!

'The Willows' was simply a charming retreat where he sent them to try his favorite tonics of sunlight and oxygen; they never dreamed they were to be the recipients of favors which would not be rendered in the bill.

The fresh rind of the lemon is a gentle tonic, and, when dried and grated, is used in flavouring a variety of culinary preparations.

If the grave tonic is not heard in the bass Jew's harp, it must be attributed, not to the defectiveness of the instrument, but to the player.

He missed that perpetual spur of nervous excitement, change of society, influx of ever-fresh objects, which makes London, after all, the best place in the world for hard working; and which makes even a walk along the streets an intellectual tonic.

And Tom actually made Vavasour promise to do both, and bade him farewell with "Now, I'll send you up a little tonic; and trouble you with no more visits till you send for me.

Action gave them a mental and physical tonic, and bracing their weak bodies they started in the direction allotted to each.

to 15 per cent., which is the most that can be tolerated of the nauseous cod liver oilits tonic and up-building properties are much greater.

In the advertisement columns one finds nothing of books, nothing of art; but great choice of bust developers, hair restorers, nervous tonics, clothing sales, self-contained flats, and business opportunities....

Then Mr. Herbert gets the occasional tonic of a brisk walk over the hard-beaten snow, of a moonlight winter's night.

She shut her eyes, drawing in the perfumed tonic.

I had thrown aside my volume of Anatomy, and was treating myself by way of a tonic, preparatory to my punch and bed, to half-a-dozen pages of the Spectator, when I heard a step on the flight of stairs descending from the attics.

It is a prompt and potent tonic and invigorant of body and mind, and then there is no end of fun in getting acquainted with its peculiarities.

Pausing deliberately and sipping the pungent tonic, he at last looked up, and said, "Well, you are offended?" "Then you were awake when I stayed to look at you?"

There is a smart, spurious wisdom of the world which has the bitterness not of the salutary tonic but of mortal poison; and of this kind the master is Chamfort, who died during the French Revolution (and for that matter died of it), and whose little volume of thoughts is often extremely witty, always pointed, but not seldom cynical and false.

So, my dear Marthe, see to it if you please in future that my slumber tonic is served just on the boil.

The kiss of a woman beloved is a splendid heart tonic.

The former has proved useful for its diuretic and laxative qualities, and efficacious in cases of languor following long illnesses: the latter is very rich in iron, and a useful tonic.

I find no better tonic than the tablets of Phosferine.

They were not red now, but green; bitter as gall, and contained an astringent tonic called uvaursi.

Dreariness filled the weeks with dismal, sunless skies and a clinging moisture that knew no wholesome tonic of keen frosts.

When thou art close, the doctor's dose Is quite a decent tonic.