"Remedy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dress, and sent them back with every insult. It caused dejection in the city to see the praetors return without their insignia of office, and to hear them report that the commotion could not be checked, and was past all remedy. Now the partisans of Marius were making their preparations, while Sulla with his colleague and six complete legions was moving from Nola; he saw that the army was ready to march right to the city, ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
... adulation of every thing connected with the Bath Hotel, frightened the discontented into silence through dread of its abuse. Ludlow, and some of the other exclusives, had, in the beginning of the present season, contrived a remedy, which, for the time, was perfectly successful. They held a private interview with the cook, and made up a weekly contribution for him, on condition of their having the best of every thing, and enough of it, for dinner; and the waiters were similarly retained. ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... said I, pondering deeply as to how this might be prevented. But I am not of a mechanical turn naturally, so I could conceive no remedy save that of putting a plate of iron on the keel; but as we had no iron, I knew not what was to be done. "It seems to me, Jack," I added, "that it is impossible to prevent the keel ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... had found it before, hard work proved now to be the best specific for dull spirits, and during the next few days I gave the remedy a full trial. ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... remedy that if you will allow me," returned the other, suavely, producing a card which he offered for examination. "You are, no doubt, acquainted with the syndicate I represent, even if my name tells you nothing. I have been hunting here with a friend ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
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