Massage is a natural alleviator and comfort-giver. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Pfizer originally made it as a chest pain alleviator. From Wordnik.com. [Going Mutant] Reference
I can safely recommend the Cluthe Truss as the only safe alleviator of the terrible sufferings of those unfortunate sufferers from rupture. From Wordnik.com. [Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured] Reference
But the striking thing about the charismatic leader is the extent to which his followers regard him as a healer of wounds, an alleviator of pain. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama, Shaman] Reference
Months passed before the captain's equanimity became restored; but time, the alleviator of sorrow and best soother of a turbulent spirit, brought a favourable change. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Some of us are just struggling to get by and occasionally reach for a certain illegal natural organic glaucoma alleviator to simply relax or blur the edges of our non-luxury, horizontally mobile existences. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Holstein: Operation Buzzkill: Random Drug Testing for the Unemployed] Reference
Salutations to thee that art of the grace of those deities who are worshipped in sacrifices, to thee that art the Atharvans, to thee that art the alleviator of all kinds of disease and pain, to thee that art the dispeller of every sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Your opium, if it be an alleviator, is, by your own confession, a most melancholy one. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Brand LIC is then presented as an anxiety alleviator, which helps to fulfil one's responsibility towards loved ones. From Wordnik.com. [afaqs! News > Latest News] Reference
And they come swiftly from the other side of the earth, over wires and cables, for your electric telegraph is a great alleviator of anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
The unfortunate plethora of labels in my life has been plaguing my mind for the past few weeks, so this read has definitely been an alleviator for me. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
When the nation was stupefied with the miasma of human slavery, Lincoln, the alleviator, broke its horrid spell by diffusing through the fire of war the sweet incense of liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
No one was more frequently before the public during the years 1854-55-56 as the upholder of truth, as the advocate of justice, as the bitter and uncompromising foe of error and ignorance, as the alleviator of misery and distress. From Wordnik.com. [Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities] Reference
But Hermon opened his soul to his learned friend, and what Erasistratus thus learned strengthened the conviction of this great alleviator of physical pain that suffering and knowledge of self were the best physicians for the human soul. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Dr. Ford also recommends during the invasion or period of chills external friction of mustard or of fresh red pepper either in tincture or in powder, a good alleviator always procurable; and the internal use of pepper-tea, to bring on the stages of reaction and resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
Before we had toiled half way up the precipitous ascent, the view, that great alleviator of fatigue to the mountain traveller, was suddenly hidden from us by a thick mist in which we became enveloped, and which, rolling slowly over the hills, hid from our gaze a magnificent panorama of the lovely valley along which our morning's march had led us, and which lay stretched at our feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home] Reference
Fortune in his private career, which threw such lustre on his path, that it rescued him from what must have been his inevitable fate, morbid cynicism: it was one of the happiest incidents that ever occurred to him: -- he formed the acquaintance of a man, seventeen years his senior -- who, in the lapse of a very short time, became to him a father and adviser, to whom present or absent he imparted every one of his schemes, thoughts, cares, sayings and doings; who was the unfailing allayer of his anxieties, alleviator of his sorrows, and most constant support of all his undertakings, -- Niccolo Niccoli, -- of whom I must take notice, as he was one of the most active stimulators of the forgery of the Annals. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
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