sanative

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• Do feel that I know you, I am bold to believe, and that if you were to run at me with a pointed spear I should be sure it was a golden sanative, Machaon's touch, for my entire good, that I was opening my heart to receive! —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
• He began to lecture in the spring of 1789 Meanwhile he had taken up the study of the Greek poets and found them very edifying and sanative--just the influence that he needed to clarify his judgment and correct his earlier vagaries of taste. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
• The evil is done long before; the broken engagement is merely sanative, and so far beneficent The old gentleman rose, and Colville, dazed by the recognition of his own cowardice and absurdity, did not try to detain him. —  Indian Summer
• The evil is done long before; the broken engagement is merely sanative, and so far beneficent. " —  Indian Summer
• Meanwhile he had taken up the study of the Greek poets and found them very edifying and sanative -- just the influence that he needed to clarify his judgment and correct his earlier vagaries of taste. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

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