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More "Smelling salts" Quotes from Famous Books



... the artist, with one spring to the group of women. And he kissed his betrothed before her mother's eyes, on the forehead, and so reverently, that the Baroness could not be angry. It was a better restorative than any smelling salts. Hortense opened her eyes, saw Wenceslas, and her color came back. In a few minutes she ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac

... next half-hour poor Derby ran errands, carried messages and complaints to every one of the train men, finally administering smelling salts when it occurred to Eleanor that Joe might have fallen off the train during ...
— The Flyers • George Barr McCutcheon

... her smelling salts which she always carried with her. "Not for my own use, my dears," she always said, "but for the benefit of ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower

... he said. "The shock of Wonderson's arrest will cause her to feel faint. I shall have ready a bottle of smelling salts. I need not go into details ... drugs ... loss of will ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 • Various

... of you smelling salts?" she inquired calmly of the frightened circle, "or perhaps you have a ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... bestow her belongings in his overcoat pockets; opera glasses in one, fan in another. She put a lorgnette into her little bag, along with her powder-box, handkerchief and smelling salts,—there was even a little silver box of peppermint drops, in case she might begin to cough. She drew on her long gloves, arranged a lace scarf over her hair, and at last was ready to have the evening cloak which Claude held ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather

... no grace in the savage gestures of his arms as his wrists twisted and writhed in their shackles, but he stuck to his task desperately, now and then hissing over his shoulder at Bateato to learn why in thunder he didn't find smelling salts or whiskey or brandy or something with which to restore the young lady ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie









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