spirits of ammonia
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“You’re in the manager’s office. They’re all running around looking for spirits of ammonia and doctors and things to bring you to. They’d just run out of ammonia, apparently. How do you feel? No kidding.”
From Literature
Well, I’m a graduate in pharmacy, you know, and so I fixed him up a little aromatic spirits of ammonia in a glass of soda-water.
From Project Gutenberg
“Would you give her any aromatic spirits of ammonia?”
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Did you try the aromatic spirits of ammonia?”
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Joe got to his feet while this was being done, and, after a little water containing aromatic spirits of ammonia had been given to him, he declared that he was all right.
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