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a cure for something bad — especially for poison

I've been drifting around at sea, have spent days searching for an effective antidote to that terrible word "easy."
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

For the poison which SHE pours there is no antidote.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
I was once told that the antidote to the escape through marijuana is brown sugar; another person told me peanut butter.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Offer poison as food and poison as antidote.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
It might be possible for science to discover some prophylactic, I should think—or some antidote of some kind— Morten Kiil.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
"Be calm," said the druggist; "we have only to administer a powerful antidote.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Alcohol is not the antidote.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I must administer an antidote, while Miss Deane prepares to tear herself away from her bobbins.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
Sewing, stitching, any labour, Having always work to do, To the poison Love instilleth Is the antidote most sure.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Darkness feeds on apathy .... and conviction is our most potent antidote.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
One little sip of this antidote would have rendered the most virulent poisons of the Borgias innocuous.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
If he does not get the antidote before tomorrow morning, the serum will not work.
Darren Shan -- A Living Nightmare
Demon poisonings are common, but since it was a Greater Demon, Hodge isn't sure if the antidotes he usually employs will be viable.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
—a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself.
James Baldwin -- Notes of a Native Son
If their teeth or claws ever puncture your skin, you've got seventytwo hours to get the antidote or you risk contamination.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Every morning the antidote for the previous day's poison was administered to me, by force if I refused to take it.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Leonardus Camillus had seen a white stone taken from the brain of a newly-killed toad, that was a certain antidote against poison.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
But Andie was no longer the antidote to my nerves.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl

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