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It is a realisation that makes one rather melancholy." "Carminative," said Mr. Scogan thoughtfully. "Carminative," Denis repeated, and they were silent for a time. "Words," said Denis at last, "words I wonder if you can realise how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind.
She must turn her mind away from her grief to the comfort that lies in her lap. Know you not that the child pines if the mother vexes herself?" The Cloister and the Hearth. A wet-nurse ought never to be allowed to dose her little charge either with Godfrey's Cordial, or with Dalby's Carminative, or with Syrup of White Poppies, or with medicine of any kind whatever.
I had to go down on my knees to you to let me make you rich. For a Parisian girl you have no ambition! If it hadn't been for your perpetual fears, no man could have been happier than I. If I had listened to you I should never have invented the Paste of Sultans nor the Carminative Balm.
L. E. D.-These, when fresh, have a strong disagreeable smell, which improves by drying, and becomes sufficiently grateful. They are recommmended as carminative and stomachic. CROCUS sativus. TRUE SAFFRON. The Stigmata. L. E. D. There are three sorts of saffron met with in the shops, two of which are brought from abroad, the other is the produce of our own country.
L. It is generally looked upon as a carminative and stomachic medicine, and as such is sometimes made use of in practice. It is said by some to be superior in aromatic flavour to any other vegetable that is produced in these northern climates; but such as I have had an opportunity of examining, fell short, in this respect, of several of our common plants.
And now" Denis spread out his hands, palms upwards, despairingly "now I know what carminative really means." "Well, what DOES it mean?" asked Mr. Scogan, a little impatiently. "Carminative," said Denis, lingering lovingly over the syllables, "carminative.
Not only was the line elegantly sonorous; it was also, I flattered myself, very aptly compendiously expressive. Everything was in the word carminative a detailed, exact foreground, an immense, indefinite hinterland of suggestion. 'And passion carminative as wine... I was not ill-pleased. And then suddenly it occurred to me that I had never actually looked up the word in a dictionary.
"They are talking about us in the papers," he said to Pillerault. "Well, what of it?" answered his uncle, who had a special antipathy to the "Journal des Debats." "That article may help to sell the Paste of Sultans and the Carminative Balm," whispered Madame Cesar to Madame Ragon, not sharing the intoxication of her husband.
"I was putting forward the notion," Denis went on, "that the effects of love were often similar to the effects of wine, that Eros could intoxicate as well as Bacchus. Love, for example, is essentially carminative. It gives one the sense of warmth, the glow. 'And passion carminative as wine... was what I wrote.
Above all, soothing medicines of varying strength, as syrup of poppies, or of unknown composition, as Dalby's Carminative or Winslow's Soothing Syrup, should never be employed.
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