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bromide
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  • Only so much; the sanctimonious bromides about still being alive grew stale and bitter with time.†   (source)
  • But now her head dug in her soft pillows and her eyes felt the gentle weight of the bromide.†   (source)
  • Someone saw him shivering with fever and informed the Captain, who, fearing a case of cholera, left the party with the ship's doctor, and the doctor took the precaution of sending Florentino to the quarantine cabin with a dose of bromides.†   (source)
  • /s/' 'There are times when a person shouldn't take that bromide about stealing from a thief too literally.'†   (source)
  • The crowd knew from the newspapers that he represented the evil of ruthless wealth; and-as they praised the virtue of chastity, then ran to see any movie that displayed a half-naked female on its posters-so they came to see him; evil, at least, did not have the stale hopelessness of a bromide which none believed and none dared to challenge.†   (source)
  • She thought suddenly of those modern college-infected parasites who assumed a sickening air of moral self-righteousness whenever they uttered the standard bromides about their concern for the welfare of others.†   (source)
  • And since this was obviously the case, it might be profitable for the scum to pursue a little knowledge, for as the bromide declared, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing-frequently more so in the eyes of the beholder than in the one possessing scant tidbits of information, so slanted as to appear many times more.†   (source)
  • He went into the bathroom and measured three teaspoons of elixir of bromide into a glass and added water until the red medicine was pink.†   (source)
  • The Cosmo-Slotnick Building rose ponderously over the street, like a big white bromide.†   (source)
  • One could make a bromide of one's life, he thought; but not of one's death.†   (source)
  • It makes him no bigger than an ant—isn't that the correct bromide for the occasion?†   (source)
  • It's not a bromide, it's practically an institution.†   (source)
  • That seems to be the official bromide of our century.†   (source)
  • She said: "May I name another vicious bromide you've never felt?†   (source)
  • My face, Mr. Holcombe, is just as much of a public bromide.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine a solid bromide undressing his soul as if it were a revelation?†   (source)
  • You will find some sleeping stuff—trional and sulphonal tablets—a packet of bromide, bicarbonate of soda, aspirin.†   (source)
  • The rule of the bromide.†   (source)
  • Bromide, Peter.†   (source)
  • Like a bromide.†   (source)
  • Why not try two tabloids of bromide dissolved in a glass of water at bedtime?†   (source)
  • Did you take your bromide last night, Colin?†   (source)
  • Violet McKisco collapsed and Mrs. Abrams took her to her room and gave her a bromide whereupon she fell comfortably asleep on the bed.†   (source)
  • They poured more coffee into him and (on the advice of Clif Clawson, who wasn't exactly sure what the effect might be but who was willing to learn) they fed him a potassium bromide tablet.†   (source)
  • Prescribed a little bromide?†   (source)
  • In 1,000 grams one finds 96.5% water and about 2.66% sodium chloride; then small quantities of magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium bromide, sulfate of magnesia, calcium sulfate, and calcium carbonate.†   (source)
  • The endless search for mineral wealth has besprinkled the map with such names as /Bromide/, /Oil City/, /Anthracite/, /Chrome/, /Chloride/, /Coal Run/, /Goldfield/, /Telluride/, /Leadville/ and /Cement/.†   (source)
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