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  • Her cycle ran 90 days, give or take, and if I was attuned enough to notice that her once daily always only once, even as an infant movement was a bit more difficult than normal, I could sometimes – not always – head it off at the pass with a teaspoon of codliver oil and no dairy for a few days.

    chocolate 2006

  • So much for the real world; these days it gave her about as much pleasure as a childhood dose of codliver oil. next »

    Excerpt: Dirt Music by Tim Winton 2002

  • This created the proposition of getting codliver oil in a finer form.

    The Prolongation of Life 1937

  • The value of codliver oil is in the vitamins it contains, and so it is considered a necessary adjunct to the poultry farm, and many barrels of it are used, resulting in better hatches, with chicks that are stronger, and that make more rapid progress.

    Links of Empire 1928

  • The family doctor gave her codliver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in.

    Chapter I. Part II 1917

  • I prefer that kind to the spasmodic machine on which the indicator moves forward one hundred pounds every two minutes and leaves a person utterly uncertain as to whether he should immediately begin dieting or purchase a bottle of codliver oil.

    The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

  • She consumed incredible quantities of those things which give strength and life, whatever they may be: malt extract or codliver oil, fresh air or sunshine, dreams or love.

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • Inunctions of codliver oil were at first used, but with little improvement.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Inunctions of codliver oil were at first used, but with little improvement.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • "I think what he needs is a good dose of codliver oil, served hot," came from Gif.

    The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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