cough-mixture

• “He took his powder-horn and filled a little funnel (like the funnels once used by chemists for filling bottles of cough-mixture) with the powder.”

  Jim Davis

• “I insist on somebody else in the house having cough-mixture too.”

  Second Plays

• “His father's just out of an illness, and keeps a cough on the chest because he can't afford a warm waistcoat or the only cough-mixture that cures him ....”

  The Lee Shore

• “All this the industrious woman narrated in a low and pleasant voice, while the wide-eyed Regent attended and at the proper intervals gulped his cough-mixture.”

  Chivalry

• ““This, I suppose, is your cough-mixture,” said the Countess, examining the bottle.”

  The Lunatic at Large

• “` ` This, I suppose, is your cough-mixture, '' said the Countess, examining the bottle.”

  The Lunatic At Large

• “` ` In the Baron's desire to spare your feelings, '' replied Mr Bunker, gravely, ` ` he has been a little inaccurate; that is not precisely an ordinary cough-mixture. '”

  The Lunatic At Large

• “Dr. Disbrow, she told him, had been in the previous evening, and had told her to take heart about Jim, and left her enough money to get along for a week -- and a wonderful new cough-mixture that he'd put up for her special.”

  The Fruit of the Tree

• “Why, you are like the quack who offered a cough-mixture which was to cure instantaneously, and could hardly get the promise out for coughing.”

  Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

• “An array of doctor's tinctures, gargles, and tonics, stood on one side, while on the other were a number of home-made concoctions in disused wine-bottles, such as a paregoric cough-mixture, and a cooling draught to be taken the first thing in the morning, which last pretended to be lemonade, but in reality contained a number of medicinal powders.”

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