The doctor had been summoned, and, after prescribing a tonic, had advised quiet and avoidance of all excitement.

He pooh-poohed Mother's fears; said it was indigestion that ailed me, or that I was growing too fast; or perhaps I didn't get enough sleep, or needed, maybe, a good 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.

America he warns against military despotism, advises a tonic of English iron, and a compress of British cotton, as sovereign against internal rupture.

I find no better tonic than the tablets of Phosferine.

"II may have taken a small tonic after dinner.

They produce a substance tonic to the uterus.

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

Curiously enough the work proved a tonic to the 'Bishop.'

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

"Talk to himfind out what ails him, order tonics for him.

"Pro-hofessor Frowenfeld, by what right do you interfere?" "No matter," said the apothecary, turning half-way and pouring the tonic into a vial.

He found the apothecary among his clerks, preparing with his own hands the "chalybeate tonic" for which the f.m.c. was expected to call.

If the present scrap can only be prolonged for another year, our country will receive a tonic which will carry it on for another century.

She had come intending to tell Esther how badly she was looking and to recommend a tonic.

Besides, you urge, and perhaps justly, that your case has already gone too far, for so rough a tonic.

By closing the fingers with the thumb inward upon the middle one, we shall have the normo-concentric hand, which signifies the tonic or power.

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?"

Such was the nature of the man, and when he swallowed Mr. Merton's tonics he did so more with the idea of keeping the property out of his son's hands than of preserving his own life.

'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 poorest cottagers knew and benefited by the thoroughly practical and unselfish character of his Christianity, during his residence at Marlow, when he would visit them, and, having gone through a course of study in medicine, in order that he might assist them with his advice, would commonly administer the tonic which such systems usually require,a good basin of broth, or pea-soup.

Although in her own heart Miss Milligan blamed Dr. Callandar severely for not allowing the poor woman to use her tonic constantly.

For AUSTEN (such is rumour's tale), Faced with a rude financial deadlock, Is bent on mulcting every male Who shirks the privilege of wedlock; With such a hurt Time cannot deal, And Lethe here affords no tonic; Nothing but Death can hope to heal What looks as if it must be chronic.

From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

Why sit down in gloom and darkness, With your grief to sup? As you drink Fate's bitter tonic Smile across the cup.