salvolatile

When the Major glared at Mr. Buffle with those meaning words my dear I literally gasped for a teaspoonful of salvolatile in a wine-glass of water, and I says “Pray let it go no farther gentlemen I beg and beseech of you!”

Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

When the Major glared at Mr. Buffle with those meaning words my dear I literally gasped for a teaspoonful of salvolatile in a wine-glass of water, and I says “Pray let it go no farther gentlemen I beg and beseech of you!”

Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

When my father had sent the servants away, Mademoiselle having gone in search of a little bottle of valerian and salvolatile, and there being no one now in the room with Carmilla, except my father,

Carmilla 2003

A piece of flannel dipped in salvolatile was then put round his neck.

George Washington Thayer, William R 1922

Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her, high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt’s, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears, that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with salvolatile.

I. Chiswick Mall 1917

"You might go and see if you can find some salvolatile, Mary," he said.

The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904

I remember when a child, hearing the story of an accident, related by some one who sent two girls to fetch a "bottle of salvolatile from her room;" "Mary could not stir," she said, "Fanny ran and fetched a bottle that was not salvolatile, and that was not in my room."

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

If "Fanny" had observed "the bottle of salvolatile" in "the aunt's room," every day she was there, she would more probably have found it when it was suddenly wanted.

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

"I want it very hot, for I have a headache, and wish to take some salvolatile."

Uncle Peter 1853

A bell was speedily rung, and it is said that the small jug of very hot water which Hannah then carried upstairs in answer to it, was really used for the purpose for which it was demanded -- to dilute a very considerable dose of salvolatile.

Uncle Peter 1853