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Swain found vinegar lotion gave instant relief, and subsequent trials in other cases have been equally successful. One part of water to two parts of vinegar is the strength most suitable. A teaspoonful of salt, in a cup of hot water makes a safe and excellent gargle in most throat troubles.
Take a table-spoonful at a time about six times a day. This has been used for a cough with great benefit. For Sore Throat. Make a gargle of cayenne pepper, honey and spirits, or sage tea, with alum and honey, or figs boiled, mashed and strained, and use it once in two hours.
She was startled into hunching it slightly, as if expecting the lash of a whip, an attitude of rigidity maintained during the brief period in which her heart suspended action altogether. "I'm I'm getting some vinegar for Mr. Thane to gargle with, Miss Jennie," she mumbled. "He's he's got a sore throat." "Let me smell that stuff, Maggie," said Miss Jennie sternly. One sniff was sufficient.
You meet such nouns frequently in Germany. They are not meant to be spoken; you gargle them. To speak the full name of this park would require two able-bodied persons one to start it off and carry it along until his larynx gave out, and the other to take it up at that point and finish it.
Pa, Ma and Aunt Bella are pure gargoyles; Cousin Joe is a little more nearly semi-human, and Mabel is a perfect darling. I had often wondered who did them, for they were unsigned, and I had often thought what a deuced brainy fellow the chap must be. And all the time it was old Archie. I stammered as I tried to congratulate him. He winced. "Don't gargle, Reggie, there's a good fellow," he said.
Craik came in soon after, and after examining the General, he put a blister of Cantharide on the throat and took some more blood from him, and had some Vinegar and hot water put into a Teapot for the General to draw in the steam from the nozel, which he did as well as he was able. He also ordered sage tea and Vinegar to be mixed for a Gargle.
The top-sergeant permitted himself the luxury of a broad grin. "I'll buy Vivier all the red-ink wine he can gargle, next pay-day!" he vowed. "He was dead right about the dog. No bullet was ever molded that can get " Mahan broke off in his exultation, with an explosive oath, as a new note in the firing smote upon his trained hearing. "The swine!" he roared.
He showed them his hut, where he lived, quite alone. It was supplied with bare necessaries, and with a counter, behind which were cups and a few bottles. In reference to this, Boldrick said: "Temperance drinks for the muleteers, tobacco and tea and sugar and postage stamps and things. They don't gargle their throats with anything stronger than coffee at this tavern."
Sloviski addressed the stranger in several dialects that ranged in rhythm and cadence from the sounds produced by a tonsilitis gargle to the opening of a can of tomatoes with a pair of scissors. The immigrant replied in accents resembling the uncorking of a bottle of ginger ale. "I have you his name," reported Sloviski. "You shall not pronounce it. Writing of it in paper is better."
As always in the presence of the opposite sex, and more than ever now, his vocal cords appeared to have tied themselves in a knot which would have baffled a sailor and might have perplexed Houdini. He could not even gargle. "He is very fond of watching golf," said the girl. She took the boy by the hand, and was about to lead him off, when Ramsden miraculously recovered speech.
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