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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