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  • Behind a mystique of adventure, toughness, footloose vagabondage-all much needed antidotes to our culture's built-in comfort and convenience may lie a kind of adolescent refusal to take seriously aging, the frailty of others, interpersonal responsibility, weakness of all kinds, the slow and unspectacular course of life itself… [TIop climbers… can be deeply moved, in fact maudlin; but only for worthy martyred excomrades.†   (source)
  • Every morning the antidote for the previous day's poison was administered to me, by force if I refused to take it.†   (source)
  • She needed Wendy's boisterousness as balance to her own caution, Wendy's bluntness as antidote to her reserve.†   (source)
  • Stephen feels hemmed in by the strictures of Irish life, by family and politics and education and religion and narrow-mindedness; as we know by now, the antidote to limitations and shackles is freedom.†   (source)
  • Trying to make an antidote, maybe.†   (source)
  • Darkness feeds on apathy …. and conviction is our most potent antidote.†   (source)
  • You've got the antidote in the car, right?†   (source)
  • Demon poisonings are common, but since it was a Greater Demon, Hodge isn't sure if the antidotes he usually employs will be viable.†   (source)
  • "Not really But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it's probably too late to pick one up."†   (source)
  • The antidote for such fear and loathing is, of course, a good story.†   (source)
  • But Andie was no longer the antidote to my nerves.†   (source)
  • It was obvious the man had been deep within the drug's rapture when he received this report, and had stopped only to take the antidote before rushing here.†   (source)
  • Intrepid writer balks at first possible phenom, she thought, turns around, and drives her adorable red car to the nearest Mickey D's for a fat-filled antidote to nerves.†   (source)
  • Somehow she knew he was offering her some sort of gift—a cure, or an antidote.†   (source)
  • My first experience in the garden was at Fort Hare where, as part of the university's manual labor requirement, I worked in one of my professors' gardens and enjoyed the contact with the soil as an antidote to my intellectual labors.†   (source)
  • His cool skin was the perfect antidote to the heat.†   (source)
  • These long walks through the charming wooded streets around his home, past Montana State students throwing Frisbees to their dogs in well-tended parks, was the antidote he needed to eight days in an airless room.†   (source)
  • The only antidote was to go for long runs first thing in the morning, before the sun came up.†   (source)
  • In return he showed them how to protect themselves from the stings of poisonous insects and demonstrated the effectiveness of his antidote by placing a live scorpion on his arm.†   (source)
  • Knowing the material cold is Cedric's best antidote to the uncertainty that sometimes wells up inside him, the doubts about whether any amount of work will be enough to propel him to a new life.†   (source)
  • Alcohol is not the antidote.†   (source)
  • Unless by giving them everything you have, you severely hamper any attempt to produce an antidote to the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • Men knew this, but they somehow assumed that the lethal effects of the disease were unrelated to the diarrhea; they searched for something else: an antidote, a drug, a way to kill the organism.†   (source)
  • And, as pleased as Howe may have been to see Clinton leave, Clinton had at least served as an antidote to Howe's "supineness."†   (source)
  • And if all that should fail, Maester Ballabar will be seated in the back of the hall, with purges and antidotes for twenty common poisons on his person.†   (source)
  • If their teeth or claws ever puncture your skin, you've got seventytwo hours to get the antidote or you risk contamination.†   (source)
  • But he had found antidotes.†   (source)
  • Yeah, an antidote to the stupidity of dating.†   (source)
  • There was no antidote against one of Abigail's enthusiasms.†   (source)
  • When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.†   (source)
  • We have seen that we need a Union:
    to protect us from foreign danger [Numbers 3, 4, 5],
    to keep the peace among ourselves [Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8],
    to guard our commerce [Number 11] and other common interests,
    as the only substitute for those military establishments that have subverted the liberties of the Old World [Number 8].
    as the antidote to diseases of faction that have destroyed other popular governments.†   (source)
  • I said, have I been poisoned that I need an antidote?†   (source)
  • To Lou, her mother was a princess reclining in a deathlike state, and none of them possessed the necessary antidote.†   (source)
  • chapter twelve Mavis's handy antidote worked like a charm.†   (source)
  • Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful "action" antidotes to combat the disease of segregation.†   (source)
  • It was a powerful message for which the West had no antidote.†   (source)
  • The antidote to Bonaparte's charm.†   (source)
  • It's the only antidote for nostalgia.†   (source)
  • I knew that ten or twelve thousand miles driving a truck, alone and unattended, over every kind of road, would be hard work, but to me it represented the antidote for the poison of the professional sick man.†   (source)
  • I wished I had had prior access to the antidote kit I kept within a standard-looking first-aid kit hidden in my dresser.†   (source)
  • I was once told that the antidote to the escape through marijuana is brown sugar; another person told me peanut butter.†   (source)
  • —a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself.†   (source)
  • Jack— you've got antidote for your darts, haven't you?†   (source)
  • When everyone had taken a swig of antidote and the various swellings had subsided, Snape swept over to Goyle's cauldron and scooped out the twisted black remains of the firework.   (source)
    antidote = a cure for something bad
  • Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes.†   (source)
  • I've got a bottle of antidote here, but I'd rather nobody needed it.'†   (source)
  • Potter, leave your things here, I want you back down here later to test your antidote.†   (source)
  • Poisons and antidotes are essential study for Aurors.†   (source)
  • I had uncovered the source of her unhappiness and delivered an antidote.†   (source)
  • They at least had a right to know that an antidote might exist.†   (source)
  • But there's an antidote to Rife's bogus religion.†   (source)
  • And he explained about the latent poison and need for an antidote.†   (source)
  • Unless I receive the antidote, I will succumb to the poison in three or four days.†   (source)
  • You couldn't make him an antidote, could you?†   (source)
  • This antidote is almost as lethal as the poison.†   (source)
  • Even Nox wound up chugging a vial of antidote; he'd put monkshood first.†   (source)
  • Without the antidote, the poison is triggered—he'd die in a few days.†   (source)
  • You are to create an antidote for the poison within it before the end of the lesson.†   (source)
  • "Madam Octa's bite is deadly, but for every poison there exists an antidote.†   (source)
  • The antidote—if it was an antidote—was meant for everyone.†   (source)
  • One Champion drank the water and was on the ground before Brullo could hand him the antidote.†   (source)
  • "Antidotes!" said Snape, looking around at them all, his cold black eyes glittering unpleasantly.†   (source)
  • "We haven't given her the antidote yet."†   (source)
  • And we will hold in reserve …. the withdrawal of the antidote for the poison.†   (source)
  • I've got the necessary here in my bag, it's not a difficult antidote …'†   (source)
  • As he guzzled down the antidote, she wished Brullo had somehow run out.†   (source)
  • An antidote other than Levana's, at least.†   (source)
  • "You won't, dear, we'll find an antidote, don't worry," said Mrs. Weasley soothingly.†   (source)
  • But I'll not yet withhold the antidote from him.†   (source)
  • Withdrawal of the antidote at any time brings death.†   (source)
  • Harry pulled out his trusty copy of Advanced Potion-Making and turned to the chapter on Antidotes.†   (source)
  • Some of the antidote splashed up over her thumb.†   (source)
  • And there it was, scrawled right across a long list of antidotes.†   (source)
  • "Withdraw the antidote," the Count said.†   (source)
  • Everyone so busy, so determined in their search for an antidote.†   (source)
  • The antidote will not betray itself to a poison snooper.†   (source)
  • Slowly, Slughorn moved around the room, examining the various antidotes.†   (source)
  • Dr. Erland would duplicate the antidote.†   (source)
  • Why—it was only confirmed as a true antidote hours before my departure.†   (source)
  • When we withdraw the antidote, death will sheathe him.†   (source)
  • Because the emperor must be the first to receive the antidote.†   (source)
  • He poured a quarter of the antidote into the beaker.†   (source)
  • How long before I get the pretend antidote?†   (source)
  • "He's confirmed it as a real antidote, but he says they can't duplicate it."†   (source)
  • We won't know if it's a true antidote until they've had a chance to study it.†   (source)
  • The head doctor thinks he might be able to use me to find an antidote.†   (source)
  • And then there's the antidote, and I … I just can't wait on that.†   (source)
  • She claims it's an antidote to letumosis."†   (source)
  • Where do you think the twenty-seven antidotes we've already been through came from?"†   (source)
  • Oh, there's talk of an antidote there, but that's a bunch of hooey.†   (source)
  • The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.†   (source)
  • We'll make sure they have all the information they need to get the antidote for Jocelyn.†   (source)
  • I begged your Agents for aid, but they had no more antidote and cited 'other priorities.'†   (source)
  • Claim: This party also could have access to an antidote within reach.†   (source)
  • Yesterday he came to me in the hospital—he brought the antidote.†   (source)
  • And a vial of powder, too--the final antidote to Bonaparte, if he could be controlled no other way.†   (source)
  • He was, I imagined, looking for an antidote to loneliness, both cosmic and personal.†   (source)
  • They'll carry on about finding an antidote and taking down the makeshift government.†   (source)
  • There had to be a treatment, an antidote somewhere.†   (source)
  • I don't know how to cast a spell, or make an antidote— Magnus snorted.†   (source)
  • And the antidote—how did it wind up in the Waylands' library?†   (source)
  • There is no known antidote for its venom.†   (source)
  • "But there are some injuries you can't cure… old curses…and there are poisons without antidotes…… " "…and Mr. Filch, our caretaker, has asked me to say that there is a blanket ban on any joke items bought at the shop called Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.†   (source)
  • Basilisk venom only has one antidote, and it's incredibly rare — " "— phoenix tears," said Harry, nodding.†   (source)
  • But nursing was no antidote: Even with a full belly, Parwana was flailing and shrieking, immune to her mother's supplications.†   (source)
  • He was drinking cold black tea and chewing cardamom seeds, his personal trusted antidote for hang over headaches.†   (source)
  • Naturally they develop the antidotes at the same time as they're customizing the bugs, but they hold those in reserve, they practise the economics of scarcity, so they're guaranteed high profits."†   (source)
  • He worked his way through it while Fox gulped down Coke as if it were the antidote to some rare and fatal poison in his bloodstream, and the others engaged in small talk.†   (source)
  • She has to get the antidote! he thought frantically, knowing that even then the Skilna Bragh was fulfilling its deadly purpose within her flesh.†   (source)
  • 'Because you'll keep bleeding till you shrivel up, we haven't got an antidote yet,' said George, helping himself to a kipper.†   (source)
  • They're sure they'll find an antidote, though; they say they've had much worse cases than mine, and in the meantime I just have to keep taking a BloodReplenishing Potion every hour.†   (source)
  • Where can the antidote be found?†   (source)
  • They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, the Weapons Master forced him to swallow the antidote, though the Champion still had to be rushed to the castle infirmary.†   (source)
  • 'Healer Smethwyck worked his magic in the end, found an antidote to whatever that snake's got in its fangs, and Arthur's learned his lesson about dabbling in Muggle medicine, haven't you, dear?' she added, rather menacingly.†   (source)
  • Staring nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would be testing them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the term.†   (source)
  • Was the antidote inside?†   (source)
  • I'd have thought you'd be doing something constructive, Harry, even if you don't want to learn your antidotes!†   (source)
  • The wall behind her was covered in notices and posters saying things like: A CLEAN CAULDRON KEEPS POTIONS FROM BECOMING POISONS and ANTIDOTES ARE ANTI-DON'TS UNLESS APPROVED BY A QUALIFIED HEALER.†   (source)
  • Antidotes were on hand in case mistakes were made—and as Brullo began going through the tables, telling the Champions to drink, he handed them out frequently.†   (source)
  • I expect to see a great deal more effort for this weeks essay on the various varieties of venom antidotes, or I shall have to start handing out detentions to those dunces who get a "D'V He smirked as Malfoy sniggered and said in a carrying whisper, 'Some people got a "D"?†   (source)
  • Dobby has used it, sir,' said the elf, dropping his voice and looking guilty, 'when Winky has been very drunk; he has hidden her in the Room of Requirement and he has found antidotes to Butterbeer there, and a nice elf-sized bed to settle her on while she sleeps it off, sir… and Dobby knows Mr Filch has found extra cleaning materials there when he has run short, sir, and —'†   (source)
  • Oh, you're like your mother … well, 1 can't fault you … a bezoar would certainly act as an antidote to all these potions!†   (source)
  • And you will see that the antidote becomes a regular part of Hawat's diet from this point on …. unless I say otherwise.†   (source)
  • 'Now drink that up, it's a tonic for the nerves, keep you calm when she arrives, you know,' 'Brilliant,' said Ron eagerly, and he gulped the antidote down noisily.†   (source)
  • We administer an antidote in his meals.†   (source)
  • Her half-finished antidote, comprising fifty-two ingredients including a chunk of her own hair, bubbled sluggishly behind Slughorn, who had eyes for nobody but Harry.†   (source)
  • The antidote, yes.†   (source)
  • Hermione recited at top speed: 'Golpalott's-Third-Law—states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.'†   (source)
  • RESIDUAL POISON: an innovation attributed to the Mentat Piter de Vries whereby the body is impregnated with a substance for which repeated antidotes must be administered.†   (source)
  • People seemed to think that it might have been an accident, given that he had been in the Potions master's room at the time, and that as he had been given an antidote immediately there was no real harm done.†   (source)
  • 'Er,' said Harry, somewhat distracted by the fact that Ron was now elbowing him in the ribs in an attempt to force his way into the room, 'well, I've never mixed an antidote for a love potion, sir, and by the time I get it right Ron might've done something serious —'†   (source)
  • He is much more accomplished at Occlumency than poor Morfin Gaunt, and I would be astonished if he has not carried an antidote to Veritaserum with him ever since I coerced him into giving me this travesty of a recollection.†   (source)
  • As I doubt the Half-blood prince" she gave the book another scornful look "could dream up an antidote for a dozen different love potions at once, I'd just invite someone to go with you, that'll stop all the others thinking they've still got a chance.†   (source)
  • Hermione recited at top speed: 'Golpalott's-Third-Law—states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.'†   (source)
  • '… which means, of course, that assuming we have achieved correct identification of the potion's ingredients by Scarpin's Revelaspell, our primary aim is not the relatively simple one of selecting antidotes to those ingredients in and of themselves, but to find that added component which will, by an almost alchemical process, transform these disparate elements —'†   (source)
  • Subjects had been carted in from provinces as far-reaching as Mumbai and Singapore to act as guinea pigs for the antidote testing.†   (source)
  • 'Just like his mother, she had the same intuitive grasp of potion-making, it's undoubtedly from Lily he gets it … yes, Harry, yes, if you've got a bezoar to hand, of course that would do the trick … although as they don't work on everything, and are pretty rare, it's still worth knowing how to mix antidotes …'†   (source)
  • He hasn't said it outright, but … I'm getting the impression that the doctor is losing hope of finding an antidote anytime soon.†   (source)
  • Rumors abounded about the girl and Chang Sunto's miraculous recovery, and while some had talked of an antidote, no one was coming clean.†   (source)
  • You are probably not aware, but I have had a research team dedicated to studying the disease for some years now, and it appears that my scientists have finally discovered an antidote.†   (source)
  • POSTED 14 AUG 126 T.E.: A PRESS MEETING IS TO BE HOSTED BY CROWN PRINCE KAI ON 15 AUG TO DISCUSS THE ONGOING LETUMOSIS RESEARCH AND POSSIBLE LEADS FOR AN ANTIDOTE-†   (source)
  • She'd had no qualms dismissing her when she found a lucrative means to do it, a way that could keep her free of guilt because, after all, they needed to find an antidote.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the quarantines yesterday. if you do find an antidote, or anything that even holds promise as an antidote, I want her to be the first one to get it.†   (source)
  • Though it was an awful thing to think, and she immediately chastised herself for it, she couldn't help it—with Emperor Rikan dead, Peony was the first in line for an antidote.†   (source)
  • Kai could guess that Torin hadn't intended to mention the antidote, at least until they could plan their next move—but letumosis was a pandemic that affected all of them.†   (source)
  • Maybe the antidote would work.†   (source)
  • "I would be lying," Dr. Erland continued, "if I said that I had not harbored secret hopes of finding an antidote in time to save His Majesty, though I knew from the moment the diagnosis was made that it was unlikely.†   (source)
  • An antidote that we need….†   (source)
  • If there were an antidote.†   (source)
  • Antidote?†   (source)
  • Without any antidote?†   (source)
  • The antidote.†   (source)
  • The queen's antidote.†   (source)
  • An antidote?†   (source)
  • Peony needed an antidote.†   (source)
  • An antidote.†   (source)
  • Many of the harshest attacks on Hamilton's economic policies—and some of the more biting comments on Washington himself—came from the National Gazette, a newspaper newly established in Philadelphia as an antidote to the partisan Federalist views of the Gazette of the United States, to which Alexander Hamilton was a regular contributor of essays and money.†   (source)
  • "Here's an antidote for you.†   (source)
  • I have heard that an early inoculation to'the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.†   (source)
  • Tommen had always been frightened of Sandor Clegane's harsh voice and burned face, and Clegane's scorn would have been the perfect antidote to Loras Tyrell's simpering chivalry.†   (source)
  • In a way, he is the antidote to Jane.†   (source)
  • She knew by heart words from several dialects of the Indians, was acquainted with their customs, and could describe the exact way in which they pierced their lips and earlobes with wooden shafts, their initiation rites, the names of the most poisonous snakes, and the appropriate antidotes for each.†   (source)
  • Claim: If the world didn't get off its collective high horse, find Monique de Raison, and develop an antidote, very bad times that would make the budget crisis look like a game of dominoes were only days around the corner.†   (source)
  • When we visited Kayanza, it seemed to me that building a clinic really could be Deo's way out of that cup, his antidote to Mutaho and Murambi, his tool for mending the tear that had divided his life -- somehow, I pictured him sewing a patch over the rips in his pants, years back, in his dorm room at Burundi's medical school.†   (source)
  • Both the recipe for the potion Jocelyn took and the recipe for the antidote to it are contained in that book.†   (source)
  • And in return, when you bring me the book, I'll make up the antidote for you and administer it to Jocelyn.†   (source)
  • "I'm no antidote," said Lee.†   (source)
  • The avenues, side streets, bars, billiard halls, hospitals, police stations, and even the playgrounds of Harlem- -not to mention the houses of correction, the jails, and the morgue—testified to the potency of the poison while remaining silent as to the efficacy of whatever antidote, irresistibly raising the question of whether or not such an antidote existed; raising, whichwas worse, the question of whether or not an antidote was desirable; perhaps poison should be fought with poison.†   (source)
  • Offer poison as food and poison as antidote.†   (source)
  • We both appreciate simplicity, and we are sometimes bored — well, boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear.†   (source)
  • And what happiness or misery-antidote can it offer instead of pipes and sheep or musical, milk-drinking innocence, or even merely nature walks with a pasty instructor in goggles, or fiddle lessons?†   (source)
  • Had she missed her among the coffee cups at breakfast? not in the least) lessened; and of their anguish left, as antidote, a relief that was balm in itself, and also, but more mysteriously, a sense of some one there, of Mrs. Ramsay, relieved for a moment of the weight that the world had put on her, staying lightly by her side and then (for this was Mrs. Ramsay in all her beauty) raising to her forehead a wreath of white flowers with which she went.†   (source)
  • So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand, I settled down with a notebook and a pencil to make what I could of Mary Carmichael's first novel, LIFE'S ADVENTURE.†   (source)
  • Shen Nung discovered in one day seventy poisonous plants and their antidotes: through a glass covering to his stomach he could observe the digestion of each herb.†   (source)
  • Actually this newspaper very soon came to devote its columns to advertisements of new, 'infallible' antidotes against plague.†   (source)
  • But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.†   (source)
  • I must administer an antidote, while Miss Deane prepares to tear herself away from her bobbins.†   (source)
  • "Be calm," said the druggist; "we have only to administer a powerful antidote.†   (source)
  • For the poison which SHE pours there is no antidote.†   (source)
  • As it was, for the last several weeks the group's social activities had been restricted by the poor health of their chief, the great Pieter Peeperkorn, whose malign memento of the tropics refused to respond to either the exceptional climate or the antidotes prescribed by as excellent a physician as Director Behrens.†   (source)
  • Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.†   (source)
  • Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly-killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.†   (source)
  • The total value of this effort was to make him realize once more how far his emotions were involved; thenceforth he resolutely provided antidotes.†   (source)
  • And yet this Odette, from whom all this evil sprang, was no less dear to him, was, on the contrary, more precious, as if, in proportion as his sufferings increased, there increased at the same time the price of the sedative, of the antidote which this woman alone possessed.†   (source)
  • And he gathered from his strange feeling that the romantic quest which had brought him into the wilderness might turn out to be an antidote for the morbid bitterness of heart.†   (source)
  • He held up a little silver whistle as he remarked, "That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I've got an antidote on call."†   (source)
  • The necessary antidotes had been administered in time and she was now out of danger, though still so weak that it was out of the question to move her to the country, and so the countess had been sent for.†   (source)
  • White men, employed to lay out railroads in snaky places, often carry ammonia with them as an antidote.†   (source)
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