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  • 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 John Masefield 1922

  • 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 Rose Macaulay 1919

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

    Second Plays 1919

  • 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 James Branch Cabell 1918

  • 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 James Branch Cabell 1918

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

    The Lunatic at Large 1907

  • ` ` 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 1905

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

    The Lunatic At Large 1905

  • 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 Edith Wharton 1899

  • 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 of Samosata Lucian 1894

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