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  • He always ordered the same breakfast: eggs, bacon, a Bayer aspirin, and a glass of spirits of ammonia and Coca-Cola.†   (source)
  • She bark out that scary cough again and I get the baby aspirin and the cough syrup.†   (source)
  • A sock, an empty bottle for aspirin, dustballs.†   (source)
  • And Tess got an entire outfit, brand-new shirts and shoes and pants, and bandages and rubbing alcohol and even a bottle of aspirin.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tubulari even had reservations about aspirin.†   (source)
  • He gulped two aspirin, and brought two more back for me.†   (source)
  • He needed an aspirin.†   (source)
  • Etienne summons a doctor who prescribes rest, aspirin, and aromatic violet comfits.†   (source)
  • If only he had a real beer, or an aspirin, or more Scotch.†   (source)
  • I find aspirin and store-bought toothpaste in the medicine cabinet and clean towels in the hall closet.†   (source)
  • His mother took the small glass bottle of aspirin out of her pocket and placed it sheepishly on the counter.†   (source)
  • I didn't dare ask Mother for even an aspirin, especially since Father was away at work.†   (source)
  • Marin who was sent home with her coat and some aspirin.†   (source)
  • Her mom was walking around the house in nervous circles, offering Richie lemonade and sandwiches and aspirin.†   (source)
  • When he came back, he sat down next to me, opened a plastic vial, and shook out four white tablets that were about three times as thick as aspirin.†   (source)
  • "They're called aspirin.†   (source)
  • What about the aspirin?†   (source)
  • Aspirin for my fever.†   (source)
  • It's the active ingredient in aspirin.†   (source)
  • And a bottle labelled ASPIRIN.†   (source)
  • Got any aspirin?†   (source)
  • Aspirin gives me a stomach ache.†   (source)
  • That was the old powder you bought and took like aspirin.†   (source)
  • Also clothing, aspirin, antibiotics, hand lotion, thick cotton diapers, batteries for our radio, and long letters.†   (source)
  • "The aspirin should kick in soon," I told him.†   (source)
  • Got an aspirin?†   (source)
  • She reached into her bag, where she kept a few single-serving aspirin packets, but again, on her screen, she saw what everyone was seeing.†   (source)
  • I had stopped at a drugstore and bought a small tin of aspirin and then asked the clerk at the soda fountain to pour me a glass of water.†   (source)
  • An aspirin ….†   (source)
  • When we asked him if making aspirin was as important as men going to the moon, he rubbed his head and looked kind of painfully at us and said, "Believe me, aspirin is pretty darn important."†   (source)
  • And if you happen to be chasing Ellerby down in a police helicopter, a not altogether unfathomable possibility, you will be treated to ORAL ROBERTS TAKES ASPIRIN, an old Rodney Dangerfield line from the days when Oral healed all comers over Sunday morning television.†   (source)
  • Give him an aspirin and put him to bed.†   (source)
  • She upset stacks of lingerie, ironed skins and blouses, shampoos, creams, chocolate, Sellotape, umbrellas, soap (and other bottled London smells), quinine, aspirin, broad-spectrum antibiotics.†   (source)
  • She was the first girl I'd ever French-kissed, and even though our teeth clanked together so hard the first time we tried it that I saw stars and had to take aspirin when I got home, I still had feelings for her.†   (source)
  • She positions a cool washcloth on my forehead; her breath has the tangy smell of aspirin.†   (source)
  • He prepared hot lemonade with a shot of brandy, drank it in bed with two aspirin tablets, and, wrapped in a wool blanket, sweated by the bucketful until the proper equilibrium had been reestablished in his body.†   (source)
  • Jenny gave him an aspirin and held a bag of ice to his front leg.†   (source)
  • Do you want an aspirin?†   (source)
  • Aspirin—they had fevers.†   (source)
  • But we had no aspirin on the cay, of course, and the water was always warm.†   (source)
  • "He takes seventy grains of aspirin a day and that's all."†   (source)
  • She bought some aspirin at the front desk and ordered a wake-up call for 8:00 a.m. Then she went back to her room.†   (source)
  • You got an aspirin?†   (source)
  • Josie wondered where you even got these things-it wasn't like they were in the aisle next to the aspirin at CVS.†   (source)
  • One of these notes read, On this, maybe remember what you know of Yves, and she looked at the underlined sentence, No, I don't want no damn aspirin.†   (source)
  • The guys figured we could steal some flashlight batteries, bottles of lotion or aspirin and then sell them to people looking for a bargain.†   (source)
  • Burned Out Burning up, coming down, I popped three aspirin against the throbbing in my skull, and attempted a nap.†   (source)
  • It would not go away with aspirin, and then he got a severe backache.†   (source)
  • He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he liked and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand.†   (source)
  • She went down to the botanica for a poultice and then down to the bodega for aspirin.†   (source)
  • Once we left the party, Wes had stopped at the Quik Zip, where I'd bought a big bottled water and some aspirin.†   (source)
  • "This is the best thing for it, I guess, since I can't take aspirin."†   (source)
  • That's SAPS' way of saying take two aspirin and call me at end of the watch."†   (source)
  • How about aspirin?†   (source)
  • "Take some aspirin," she says.†   (source)
  • I drank down a glass of cold water and took some aspirin.†   (source)
  • Mum made me come to bed with an aspirin.†   (source)
  • This is not like popping aspirin for a headache.†   (source)
  • He cursed Milo and held two aspirin tablets out to Snowden.†   (source)
  • And granted, he had lost his profession anyway, because the mechanical aspirin-medicine he practiced at the clinic had nothing in common with his concept of medicine.†   (source)
  • I gave her three aspirin.†   (source)
  • What he was doing, he was giving her a feel under the table, and at the same time telling her all about some guy in his dorm that had eaten a whole bottle of aspirin and nearly committed suicide.†   (source)
  • Within ten minutes he would get up and take more aspirin.†   (source)
  • Aspirin was acetylsalicylic acid, and if it was taken in sufficient quantities, it would acidify you.†   (source)
  • A hot bath would reduce the pain, and medication, extra-strength aspirin and liniment, would permit more normal mobility.†   (source)
  • She didn't even like to take aspirin.†   (source)
  • I think I'll take some aspirin and lay down."†   (source)
  • Deo wanted aspirin, but he didn't dare stand in the line.†   (source)
  • There is a bottle of aspirin.†   (source)
  • She'd down a gallon of water, a bottle or two of aspirin, make herself eat something.†   (source)
  • …sack of potatoes and onions; two cans of salmon; a diminutive panettone; two one-liter bottles of red wine; a crock of butter; a bunch of carrots; a kilo and a half of cheese; two bars of soap; a box of tooth salts; iodine swabs; bandages; aspirin; tincture of opium; six newly washed woolen blankets; a down pillow; eight rolls of toilet paper; ten grenades; twenty signal or illumination flares; a Mauser 98; five hundred rounds of ammunition in ten boxes of fifty rounds; a bayonet; a…†   (source)
  • You want some aspirin or—†   (source)
  • Let me get you some aspirin.†   (source)
  • Advil, aspirin, some kind of over-the-counter sleeping pills I stole from Kate and then stored in an old prescription bottle of Mom's.†   (source)
  • …into my mandarin dress; a Game Boy loaded with Tetris; the latest Dan Brown (because you can't go on a transatlantic flight with nothing to read); my mini iPod; three book lights; Sun-In for my highlights; all of my pharmaceuticals, such as aspirin, Band-Aids for the blisters I am undoubtedly going to get (from strolling hand in hand with Andrew through the British Museum, soaking in all the art), and prescriptions, including my birth control pills and antibiotic acne medication; and…†   (source)
  • She helped me get to bed, gave me an aspirin and left.†   (source)
  • I took plenty of aspirin, used crutches to walk, and Caroline helped me keep the wound clean.†   (source)
  • Bandages, ointment, a roll of gauze, aspirin—it was hopeless.†   (source)
  • I don't even take aspirin.†   (source)
  • As Old Chao popped an aspirin, Ralph snuck a look at Old Chao's homework sheet.†   (source)
  • I can make my ears ring louder by taking aspirin.†   (source)
  • Probably an aspirin.†   (source)
  • This, with aspirin, was almost all that remained of their reserve medical supply.†   (source)
  • Do you think he might have taken too much of that aspirin you got for him, or something?†   (source)
  • I remember when a coin in a slot would get you a stick of gum or a candy bar, but in these dining palaces were vending machines where various coins could deliver handkerchiefs, comb-and-nail-file sets, hair conditioners and cosmetics, first-aid kits, minor drugs such as aspirin, mild physics, pills to keep you awake.†   (source)
  • MARIA He just came to deliver aspirin.†   (source)
  • "I've had aspirin, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol … " "Truth serums," he said.†   (source)
  • She pressed her fingertips to her chest to calm the beating, thinking, If this is love, give me aspirin.†   (source)
  • After he had taken a few spoonfuls, she crushed two Aspirin and gave them to him in. the spoon.†   (source)
  • Aspirin?†   (source)
  • He opened it, took out the tablets, put them carefully away, and substituted two tablets of aspirin.†   (source)
  • She offered him quinine and aspirin, which he took, and afterwards fell into bed, without eating his supper.†   (source)
  • Just tell us what you know and I'll find you some shuck aspirin."†   (source)
  • You could get by on aspirin or Empirin now.†   (source)
  • He held out the brown bottle labelled ASPIRIN.†   (source)
  • Wendy gave him baby aspirin and Jack slipped him, unprotesting, between the sheets of his cot.†   (source)
  • How many times in the past hadn't I dropped in to buy aspirin or formula for the baby.†   (source)
  • Most of what I could come up with was Advil and aspirin.†   (source)
  • But I thought I'd beat it with aspirin and a lot of water.†   (source)
  • He complains of shoulder pain, and asks her for the aspirin.†   (source)
  • Can I have orders for Tylenol instead of aspirin?†   (source)
  • You get shot at Christmas and see if you want to sit around swallowing aspirin!†   (source)
  • I took the Excedrin, what was left of the aspirin, and the sleeping pills back down with me.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure pills, stress pills, allergy pills, eye drops, aspirin.†   (source)
  • A BlyssPluss container, half full; a bottle of aspirin, which he snags.†   (source)
  • I spotted the aspirin powder and, as I was taking it, saw a slender flask filled with dark liquid.†   (source)
  • My temperature was normal, but I took two aspirin anyway.†   (source)
  • Was it just Chinese food and cod-liver oil and aspirin and brown ale and dead things left by owls?†   (source)
  • He went to her and she felt his forehead and told me to get him an aspirin and a glass of water.†   (source)
  • The tablet was not chalky like aspirin and not exactly capsule-slick either.†   (source)
  • The fifty aspirin—but I've explained them.†   (source)
  • I had given myself a headache, so I went into the bathroom and took four aspirin.†   (source)
  • I poured him a glass of water from the pitcher beside his bed, and shook out two aspirin tablets.†   (source)
  • Chewing aspirin had been a habit with him in his drinking days; he hadn't done it at all since then.†   (source)
  • He has brought a waiter with a glass of water and two aspirin on a little silver tray.†   (source)
  • I took a jar of aspirin from the bathroom.†   (source)
  • "I hope this helps," Margarita said, handing me a bottle of aspirin to disguise our transaction.†   (source)
  • A headache pushed up from beneath the aspirin and swelled to fill my skull.†   (source)
  • The taste of dissolved aspirin was still on his tongue, making it feel rough and slightly numb.†   (source)
  • I put two aspirin in the sauce and he picked them out and swallowed them.†   (source)
  • I didn't figure this out, though, until after I'd swallowed the fifty aspirin.†   (source)
  • I dug into my denim bag and found the plastic bottle of aspirin—a big bottle nearly full.†   (source)
  • I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin.†   (source)
  • She held out five orangeflavored baby aspirin.†   (source)
  • Where's those aspirin?" he yelled down the stairs.†   (source)
  • He yelled again: "I said, where's those blooming aspirin?†   (source)
  • Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirin?†   (source)
  • He had read somewhere that chewing aspirin could become addictive.†   (source)
  • Then I went out to get some milk, which my mother had asked me to do before I took the aspirin.†   (source)
  • I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin.†   (source)
  • Next time, I decided, I certainly wouldn't take aspirin.†   (source)
  • Once the aspirin wore off, I didn't get much sleep.†   (source)
  • Then he walked out, fiddling with the lid of the aspirin, and got back into his car.†   (source)
  • Marcela, more excited than she had ever been over a race, downed several aspirin.†   (source)
  • First, the drug store, a half-dozen aspirin to cure this hand for an hour, then, think.†   (source)
  • With one swoop I tossed the aspirin into my mouth and gulped down the water.†   (source)
  • His head was pounding, so he took two aspirin and washed them down with orange juice.†   (source)
  • He stopped in the lobby for aspirin and walked over.†   (source)
  • It's hard enough getting an aspirin out of him when you've got flu.†   (source)
  • Lorraine was looking through the top dresser drawer for her aspirin.†   (source)
  • Excedrin on TV, significantly more effective than common aspirin.†   (source)
  • And to get some soda from the machine, to wash down the aspirin with.†   (source)
  • I think I'll take two or three aspirin or Tylenol or whatever Mom has in her medicine cabinet.†   (source)
  • Snowden rejected the aspirin with an almost imperceptible shake of his head.†   (source)
  • She had dry-swallowed a couple of aspirin from the kit, but they didn't make a dent in the pain.†   (source)
  • Perry, on the other hand, was without appetite; he subsisted on root beer, aspirin, and cigarettes.†   (source)
  • Returning a moment later, she presented me with some aspirin and a glass of water.†   (source)
  • He told them about the aspirin, nitro, the fluids, and her blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Wonder if aspirin dulls the pain of its killing you.†   (source)
  • I walk back to the corner office with aspirin and a glass of water.†   (source)
  • Aspirin was a gastric irritant, and it could exacerbate bleeding.†   (source)
  • He chewed three aspirin and swallowed them dry.†   (source)
  • If she had a clot, aspirin was a good way to prevent platelet clumping.†   (source)
  • It doesn't really hurt, thanks to the eight aspirin I took.†   (source)
  • Despite the smile, Raffe's expression is one of pain, the kind you can't stop with aspirin.†   (source)
  • Doesn't aspirin reduce fevers as well as get rid of a headache?†   (source)
  • Sipping his aspirin-spiked root beer, he went on, "Anyway, I don't believe it.†   (source)
  • An old man who drank Sterno and took aspirin, also in acidosis.†   (source)
  • In combination with aspirin, it meant Jackson was consuming great quantities of acid.†   (source)
  • I have no idea if aspirin will work on an angel, or if his fever has anything to do with his wounds.†   (source)
  • Did this aspirin and squeeze have any effect on you?†   (source)
  • Miss Conover gave him two aspirin and a tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda.†   (source)
  • Aspirin and squeeze, see, really kills that pain.†   (source)
  • And the old fellow with the aspirin hyperventilated.†   (source)
  • Didn't anybody tell you aspirin would make the bleeding worse?" he asked.†   (source)
  • He didn't like to fly on medication, but a few aspirin would certainly be less debilitating than this raging headache.†   (source)
  • His legs hurt all the time and he wanted his dope, not the heavy-duty aspirin they gave him at the hospital dispensary.†   (source)
  • Then I looked in the drawers on either side of the dressing table, but these only contained aspirin and nail clippers and batteries and dental floss and a tampon and tissues and a spare false tooth in case Father lost the false tooth he had to fill the gap where he knocked a tooth out when he fell off the ladder putting a bird box up in the garden, but my book wasn't in there either.†   (source)
  • When I stare at them with the rainy-season light in my eyes and Congo grit in my teeth, I can hardly recollect the place where such items were commonplace, merely a yellow pencil, merely a green bottle of aspirin among so many other green bottles upon a high shelf.†   (source)
  • Will you bring me aspirin and water?†   (source)
  • The next morning at Clary's drugstore, Ruth set Luther's breakfast in front of him—his eggs, his bacon, his Bayer aspirin, and his glass of ammonia and Coca-Cola.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ferris told us how we were going to have lab partners and do experiments and create vacuums and aspirin tablets and investigate the concept of mass versus weight and how we'd have to measure with the metric system and we didn't need to fuss about it because it was for our own good and how the first thing we needed to become familiar with was the periodic table starting with H for …. does anyone know?†   (source)
  • Aspirin, a whole bottle of them.†   (source)
  • When I had had fever in Virginia, and at Scharloo, my mother had given me aspirin and then put cold cloths on my head.†   (source)
  • At Hasina's suggestion, the two of them had emptied the bottle of aspirin in the gutter, hidden the kitchen knives and the sharp kebab skewers beneath the rug under the couch.†   (source)
  • Father surveyed our despair as if he'd expected it all along, and left it up to wife and daughters to sort out, suggesting only that we consider the lilies of the field, which have no need of a hand mirror or aspirin tablets.†   (source)
  • He replaces his lost aspirin and candles, and throws in six small boxes of matches and a paring knife, and his authentic-replica Red Sox baseball cap.†   (source)
  • I poured some water into a cup next to the laptop, and he took the aspirin from me, washing them down with the water.†   (source)
  • Next real memory: her fingers pushing something into his mouth at regular intervals, something like Contac capsules, only since there was no water they only sat in his mouth and when they melted there was an incredibly bitter taste that was a little like the taste of aspirin.†   (source)
  • He managed to take the aspirin and drink the water without disturbing my mother, and he handed the glass back to me with a stoical expression.†   (source)
  • "Where's the aspirin?"†   (source)
  • There was no glass of water to mix the aspirin powder in, so I had Bruce stick out his tongue and shook a good dose onto it.†   (source)
  • I might have gone into the little bathroom off her bedroom and looked in the medicine cabinet for an aspirin, something for my head, I don't know.†   (source)
  • A few minutes earlier, Risa had responded to the Admiral's request and showed up at his jet with some aspirin.†   (source)
  • He finds a plastic garbage bag, right where it should be, and puts everything into it, including the sardines and the other two packs of cashews, and the bourbon and the soap and aspirin.†   (source)
  • I had left the light on in my mother's bathroom and the door to her bathroom open—into the hall—and worse, I had left the cold-water tap running (when I'd fixed Owen a glass of water for his aspirin).†   (source)
  • He had taken the aspirin instead of the drink, but that didn't change what was going to happen now; he was going to sit here for fifteen minutes or maybe half an hour, looking at nothing but a cursor flashing in darkness; then he was going to turn the machine off and have that drink.†   (source)
  • Going into the bathroom, I retrieved some masks and aspirin and a bottle of water from our stash, and then went and whispered the same warning to Susie, asleep with Chuck.†   (source)
  • Though cold waves of disbelief and panic kept hitting me, it all seemed highly unreal and I kept glancing around for him, struck again and again by the absence of his voice among the others, that easy, well-reasoned, aspirin-commercial voice (four out of five doctors….†   (source)
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