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It's much better medicine than valerian or bromide.† (source)

He drank heavily and took mood-altering drugs called bromides.† (source)

Next he proceeded to the many new discoveries which were being made — Dr. Laycock's bromide therapy for epileptics, for example, which should put paid to a great many erroneous beliefs and superstitions; the investigation of the structure of the brain; the use of drugs in both the induction and the alleviation of hallucinations of various sorts.† (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

He arose at the crack of dawn, when he began to take his secret medicines: potassium bromide to raise his spirits, salicylates for the ache in his bones when it rained, ergosterol drops for vertigo, belladonna for sound sleep.† (source)

'Where there's smoke there must be fire,' I believe is the bromide.† (source)

That may be a bromide, boys, but that's how I feel.† (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, cliches, and bromides.† (source) J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey, 1957

Kate got up from her bed and took a heavy dose of bromide.† (source) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

The politician offered the same tired bromides.

Words and wind and self-serving bromides.† (source)

The academic-freedom bromide is history.† (source)

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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) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

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) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

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) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

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) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

The Cosmo-Slotnick Building rose ponderously over the street, like a big white bromide.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

That seems to be the official bromide of our century.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

My face, Mr. Holcombe, is just as much of a public bromide.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

It's not a bromide, it's practically an institution.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

One could make a bromide of one's life, he thought; but not of one's death.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

Can you imagine a solid bromide undressing his soul as if it were a revelation?† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

It makes him no bigger than an ant—isn't that the correct bromide for the occasion?† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

She said: "May I name another vicious bromide you've never felt?† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

You will find some sleeping stuff-trional and sulphonal tablets-a packet of bromide, bicarbonate of soda, aspirin.† (source)

Like a bromide.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

The rule of the bromide.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

Bromide, Peter.† (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

Why not try two tabloids of bromide dissolved in a glass of water at bedtime?† (source) Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

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) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

Prescribed a little bromide?† (source) Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

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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