The man touted his miracle nostrum could cure a cold in ten minutes. From LearnThat.org.
Jail is the conventional and time-honored nostrum, which is administered with a glow of moral self-esteem, and no more thought about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference
The nostrum-makers have labelled all the features of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Snivel here receives a nostrum from the lady's purse. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
His next procedure is the trial of some vaunted nostrum. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
Genitives; nostrum and vestrum as Genitives of the Whole. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
Possessive in the phrases omnium nostrum, omnium vestrum. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
We may safely feel certain that the nostrum was not liquid oxygen. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
I have never advocated Tariff Reform as a nostrum or as a panacea. From Wordnik.com. [Constructive Imperialism] Reference
Yet that is exactly the position of a doctor who recommends a nostrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Viximus: floruimus: non vitium nostrum, sed virtus nostra, nos afflixit. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
And while he is ordering a nostrum he knows can do no good, the woman makes. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
PERLS: We're always going to hear some special potion or nostrum for immortality. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2005] Reference
'Nec iam pallorem totiens mirabere nostrum, aut cur sim toto corpore nullus ego'; ii. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Now that Tim Burton has signed on at the Mouse factory, that nostrum is looking shaky. From Wordnik.com. [Lynn Parramore: Top Priorities for an Education Makeover] Reference
University has been shown to be as false as the claims made for the nostrum he exploits. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
It was the drug, our own secret nostrum, administered at request of the honoured mother of. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
I fear, all the empyricism of the legislature cannot produce a nostrum for this want of faith. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
For advertising, publicly vending, or pretending to the knowledge and use of any secret nostrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Act Of Incorporation And The By-Laws Of The Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society] Reference
O cor Jesu flagrans amore nostri, inflamma cor nostrum amore tui, inflamma cor nostrum amore tui. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference
The value of music as a therapeutic agent cannot yet be precisely stated, but it is no quack's nostrum. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
It is Podhoretz saying he will follow the reviled Clinton off to Bosnia (for that, indeed, was Norman's nostrum). From Wordnik.com. [Looking At The Big 'But'] Reference
The landlady was urgent that he should try a certain nostrum which had saved somebody's life in jest sech a case. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
This nostrum, it was claimed, would not only cure the disease, but would "absolutely prevent catching the infection.". From Wordnik.com. [Drug Supplies in the American Revolution] Reference
The nostrum that pregnant teenagers must live at home in order to receive welfare money seems exactly the wrong thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Predator Problem] Reference
Another dangerous headache nostrum, widely advertised all over the country, is responsible for many deaths as a result of its use. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
A noted modern nostrum belauds the virtues of the Barberry as specific against bile, heartburn, and the black jaundice, this being. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
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