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/smˈɛlɪŋ sɔlts/ Listen

Smelling salts

noun

A pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness.

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"Smelling salts" Quotes from Famous Books

... the smelling salts and Mr. Parker was bringing the brandy there came another vigorous pull at the bell. An instant later the maid entered with a cablegram, which Mr. Parker seized and tore open. As he read the contents, a look of the greatest surprise and joy lit up ...

— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow

... a tumbler of cold water in one hand, a bottle of smelling salts in the other, her ...

— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley

... Kernaby had her in her arms; there were screams and pantings, and a bandying to and fro of smelling salts. Everyone was hugging Elizabeth, or shaking hands with Mr. Kernaby, or slapping one another on the back and assuring one another that they had always said so. Tinker watched their exuberance with some distaste, ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... was streaming in through the windows as Magda, wrapped in a soft silken peignoir, made her way into the bathroom. Virginie, her eyes reddened from a night's weeping, was kneeling beside the sunken bath of green-veined marble, stirring sweet-smelling salts in to the steaming water. Their fragrance permeated the atmosphere ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... when you get her into her room. Give her some smelling salts, and don't tell your father. Didn't he ...

— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

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