79 examples of anodynes in sentences

Or who in sweet vicissitude appears Of mirth and opium, ratafie and tears, The daily anodyne, and nightly draught, To kill those foes to fair ones, time and thought.

With a low cry, a cry of anguishone has heard it from the lips of a sufferer waking from the anodyne of sleep to fresh painshe tore herself from his arms, and with both hands to her head, stood regarding him, her face white, something like terror in her eyes.

Occasionally persons convalescing from serious sickness where anodynes were taken, unwisely cling to them long after recovery.

By indulging this habit of making companionship with the objects of Nature, all pleasing sights and sounds gradually become certain anodynes for his sorrow; and those who have this mental alembic for turning grief into a poetic melancholy can seldom be reduced to a state of absolute despondency.

The isolation of active principles long antedated the synthetical preparations, but the latter came at lastthe marvellous array of hypnotics, anodynes, and fever-quellers that are now at our command, largely coal-tar products.

unexciting, unirritating^; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic &c 683; sedative; antiorgastic^, anaphrodisiac^. mild as mother's milk; milk and water.

It was partly the result of the long struggle between natural affection and duty, on one side, and the involuntary tendencies these had to overcome, on the other,between hope and fear, so long in conflict that despair itself would have been like an anodyne, and he would have slept upon some final catastrophe with the heavy sleep of a bankrupt after his failure is proclaimed.

He yearned especially towards the good old unquestioning, authoritative Mother Church, with her articles of faith which took away the necessity for private judgment, with her traditional forms and ceremonies, and her whole apparatus of stimulants and anodynes.

Essence of deadliest powers, refin'd and sure, Of soothing anodynes abstraction pure, Now in thy master's need thy grace impart!

At that time I had a temporary quarrel with the frantic nineteenth century's best friend, tobacco,and Iglesias, being totally at peace with himself and the world, never needs anodynes.

He says it is just a little nervous breakdownThere isn't any anodyne in them!

Nouradin was for some time amused with promises, invigorated with cordials, or soothed with anodynes; but the disease preyed upon his vitals, and he soon discovered with indignation, that health was not to be bought.

Instead of the meanness, distress, complaint, anxiety, and dependance, which have hitherto been combined in his ideas of poverty, he will read of content, innocence, and cheerfulness, of health and safety, tranquillity and freedom; of pleasures not known but to men unencumbered with possessions; and of sleep that sheds his balsamick anodynes only on the cottage.

In this light chronicle I would offer the reader an anodyne for a few hours, of transport to the other side of our sphere, where are the loveliest scenes the eyes may find upon the round of the globe, the gentlest climate of all the latitudes, the most whimsical whites, and the dearest savages I have known.

But in the closing days of the session, when a despatchful Assembly, anxious to be quit of its task, had gone into night sittings, the anodyne drug of work began to lose its effect.

Now falls the apple, bleeds the vine, And, moved by some autumnal sign, I who in spring was glad repine And ache without my anodyne; Oh! things that were!

A limited wardrobe of man's attire, such as poor tutors wear,a few good books, especially classics,a print or two, and a plaster model of the Pantheon, with some pieces of furniture which had seen service,these, and a child's heart full of tearful recollections and strange doubts and questions, alternating with the cheap pleasures which are the anodynes of childish grief; such were the treasures she inherited.

These were the anodynes that were offered to him in and out of season.

(Pub. abroad as Villa Anodyne)

I told her if the child had no anodynes, nature would regulate its sleep and motions.

Although these songs were a condensed extract of the whole anti-slavery constitution and by-laws, yet the mob was as peaceful under these paeans to liberty as a child under the influence of an anodyne.

795 Our Travellers, ye remember well, Are thridding a sequestered lane; And Peter many tricks is trying, And many anodynes applying, To ease his conscience of its pain.

And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die. X. IN A LIBRARY.

We must say that we do not commit suicide, although we admit it is a certain anodyne to the poison of life,an absolute erasure of the wrong inflicted on us by our parents,because we hope by noble example and precept to induce others to refrain from love.

These are strong, and worn round the neck to assist detention, and are probably as good as other celebrated anodyne beads which have been so long recommended for the same purpose.

79 examples of  anodynes  in sentences