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bitter-smelling

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  • Dr. Rosenbaum prescribes a bitter-smelling anticonvulsant called phenobarbital.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Sir, what's hard to understand is why you can't let a hard-working man just take his damn honey back home with him without having his balls busted over some bitter-smelling but probably delicious honey.

    Printing: He Tried to Blow Up the Plane With a Condom Bomb: Why Getting Hysterical About Airport Security Is Wrong 2010

  • Dr. Rosenbaum prescribes a bitter-smelling anticonvulsant called phenobarbital.

    Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

  • Sir, what's hard to understand is why you can't let a hard-working man just take his damn honey back home with him without having his balls busted over some bitter-smelling but probably delicious honey.

    He Tried to Blow Up the Plane With a Condom Bomb: Why Getting Hysterical About Airport Security Is Wrong 2010

  • The airbeast shivered all over, venting a bitter-smelling wash of hydrogen right into her face.

    LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

  • The airbeast shivered all over, venting a bitter-smelling wash of hydrogen right into her face.

    LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

  • Then Piers applied something to it—a bitter-smelling oil.

    GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

  • It contained several gauze packets of a bitter-smelling tea, a tin of salve, and several strips of her adhesive plaster, none of which seemed likely to be of use in any imaginable misadventure, but did no harm.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • The first addition to the concoction was the bitter-smelling goldenseal, which had been renamed by Samuel Thomson in the nineteenth century because he did not like the native name, yellow root.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • The first addition to the concoction was the bitter-smelling goldenseal, which had been renamed by Samuel Thomson in the nineteenth century because he did not like the native name, yellow root.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

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