smelling-salts

The women (their noses in a chronic state of excoriation from smelling-salts) were always primed and loaded for a swoon, and ready to go off with hair - triggers.

The Haunted House 2007

At one moment he was holding smelling-salts to some exhausted lady — at another carrying down a poor Irishwoman, who, though a steerage passenger, should not, he said, be left to perish from cold and hunger — and again, feeding some crying baby with bread and milk.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The women (their noses in a chronic state of excoriation from smelling-salts) were always primed and loaded for a swoon, and ready to go off with hair - triggers.

The Haunted House 2007

The women (their noses in a chronic state of excoriation from smelling-salts) were always primed and loaded for a swoon, and ready to go off with hair - triggers.

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

The Count called from the door for water, and for a bottle of smelling-salts.

The Woman in White 2003

These alternations propose themselves all recogniseably, I think, from an early stage, as the very form and figure of “The Ambassadors”; so that, to repeat, such an agent as Miss Gostrey pre-engaged at a high salary, but waits in the draughty wing with her shawl and her smelling-salts.

The Ambassadors 2003

A plant supplied with pure carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, and the like, would as infallibly die as the animal in his bath of smelling-salts, though it would be surrounded by all the constituents of protoplasm.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

A solution of smelling-salts in water, with an infinitesimal proportion of some other saline matters, contains all the elementary bodies which enter into the composition of protoplasm; but, as I need hardly say, a hogshead of that fluid would not keep

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

A medicated glass of water and a medicated bottle of smelling-salts relieved her of all further embarrassment and alarm.

The Woman in White 2003

He tried the effect of ear-rings, ribbons, and collars; wound up the watch, though it was n't time; burnt his inquisitive nose with smelling-salts; deluged his grimy handkerchief with Fan's best cologne; anointed his curly crop with her hair-oil; powdered his face with her violet-powder; and finished off by pinning on a bunch of false ringlets, which Fanny tried, to keep

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950