Word: drug
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...literary talent of Williams, in the last Athenoeum, is sensible and thoughtful. In a young man radicalism is indeed an essential quality. It is only the exaggeration of enthusiasm, and at our age enthusiasm cannot be too much exaggerated, at least at Harvard, where it is certainly not a drug in the market, whatever may be the case at Williams...
...BURR OAK young lady entered a drug-store lately, and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clerk showed her a roll of sticking-plaster. - Tyro...
Romantic as I am, I was never particularly anxious to die. A dying condition is occasionally interesting, but death itself is altogether too real. Yet this drowsiness, if I could not conquer it, meant nothing less than that reality, and the horrible drug was taking firmer hold every moment. Of a sudden, an idea came to me. I remembered the peculiar effect of a dose of warm water which a friend had once administered to me by way of a practical joke. My candle was burning, and a little tin drinking-cup, full of water, stood beside it. I snatched...