139 examples of restorative in sentences

I had not long to wait for Aaron's coming; but it was long enough to remind me to carry some restorative with me.

Her head drooped upon my shoulder, and when I held a spoon, filled with the restorative that I had brought, to her lips, they opened, and she took that which I gave, mechanically.

The fact is recognised, now, and your motive" I must have turned very white; for he stopped and sprang to his feet, searching for some restorative.

The restorative was speedily administered, and the pilgrim commenced his narration.

Perhaps the smell the fruit did give Felt healing and restorative For never had the child been grac'd To know such dainties by their taste.

As a restorative diet, it is much used.

Then, dismissing the French, they passed by Carthagena with their colours flying, and soon after took a frigate laden with provisions and honey, which they valued as a great restorative, and then sailed away to the Cabezas.

And he packed off one here and another there for necessaries, and commenced trying every restorative means with the ready coolness of a practised surgeon; while Lancelot, whom he ordered about like a baby, gulped down a great choking lump of envy, and then tasted the rich delight of forgetting himself in admiring obedience to a real superior.

You will find a quiet day among the wild flowers a very valuable restorative.

" "Very possibly, in the circumstances he might have found a restorative agreeable, sir.

sanative &c (remedial) 662; restorative &c (reinstate) 660; useful &c 644.

reformatory, emendatory^; reparatory &c (restorative) 660

restoring &c v.; restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory^, reparatory^; curative, remedial.

antifebrile [Med.], antipoison^, counterpoison^, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue^, lithagogue^, pick-meup, stimulant, tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative &c 174; palliative; febrifuge; alterant^, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive

Adj. remedial; restorative &c 660; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory^, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous &c (salutary) 656 [Obs.]; medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical

May their memory,' the king decreed, with a force worthy of the excommunicator-wholesale, Pius IX., 'be blotted out of the Book of Life; may their strength continually waste away, and be there no restorative to repair it!'

She seems to have been reputed a wit, for Walpole retails her mots as if they were worth it, but they are not very remarkable: for instance, when Miss Pelham lost a pair of diamond earrings, which she had borrowed, and tried to faint when the loss was discovered, some one called for lavender-drops as a restorative.

No summer drink have I drunk so innocently restorative after a hot and toilsome march on a broiling May morning.

The air is a perfect restorative to invalids, and never fails to provoke appetite and health.

But Florence did not stir, and the captain moistened her lips and forehead, put back her hair, covered her feet with his own coat, patted her handso small in his, that he was struck with wonder when he touched itand seeing that her eyelids quivered and that her lips began to move, continued these restorative applications with a better heart.

"I will wait a half-hour; if he doesn't come then, I'll go," I said to the housekeeper, who came to see that all was right for the night, and to remind me that Redleaf had not proved very advantageous to my complexion, and to recommend early hours as a restorative.

Indeed he felt so unwell that the need for some slight restorative became pressing.

"Then it may please the Lord, they shall find it to be a restorative."Id.

The sunshine of good company rivals that of the day in restorative power.

Lady Lake, however, upon whom the restorative effect of the cordial was almost magical, ordered him to stay, telling him if he went forth he would be arrested, on hearing which he sullenly obeyed her.

139 examples of  restorative  in sentences