For a more ample confirmation of the truth of what foregoes, it is on all sides confessed, that Folly is the best preservative of youth, and the most effectual antidote against age.
The book was actually put into the hands of young people as anantidote to novels in general.
And to this honest indignation are we indebted to him for his Joseph Andrews, the antidote to the very questionable morality, and unquestionable moral, of the virtue-rewarded Pamela.
To make the antidote effective, I should say, increase the quantity of the dose; administer very frequently!
After a few trials, even the most persistent alms-giver soon discovers, that as an antidote to poverty, charity is a wretched failure.
By way of antidote to these poisons, it must be acknowledged that Mr. Garrick's friends nearly surfeited the town with injudicious praise.
This custom might probably originate at a time when the plague depopulated the metropolis, and rosemary was deemed an antidote against contagion.
His long, flowing lines have a sweep and a fanciful grace which form an absolute antidote to the definite, geometrical Paduan convention.
She and the other artists of her circle lived the merry, busy life of the worker, and found in their art the antidote to the evil living and the dissipation of the gay world which provided sitters and patrons.
Only by an antidote administered by an English doctor--a friend of yours, I believe--was her life saved.
During the troubles between the king and the parliament he wrote a number of Royalist pamphlets, the first of which, A Medicine for the Times, or an Antidote against Faction, appeared in 1641.
Yes, gracious antidote to the spirit in the moment of its trial; when bowed down with anticipated bereavement; the curtains of death about to fall over life's brightest joys.
What a simple but sublime antidote for these stricken Spirits, "THAT SAME JESUS.
Expanding judgment" is often a feeble antidote to the partiality of an author for his own compositions, and Pope always spoke of his Pastoral effusions with fond complacency.
His deformed and insignificant person was an antidote to love, and the court he paid to women met with a cold return.
But where the mind has been sophisticated by false philosophy, it cannot take theology until the antidote of true philosophy has been given to it.
When the bill for it was before the House of Lords in 1775 it was advocated as an antidote to Methodism.
Rosamund is Rosamund," said Nina with a shrug; "the antidote to her species is obvious.
Truly enough, as he had often said, these younger ones were the charmingly wholesome and refreshing antidote to the occasional misbehaviour of the mature.
The submarine and the aeroplane are at present the only weapons against which there is no true means of defence, and yet one is being used as an antidote for the other without, however, any very striking success so far.
Jude looked uneasy, and remembering his antidote for domestic tears, extracted the bottle again.
But I now feel some security in the antidote I have obtained; and if I do perish I have the satisfaction of knowing that I shall not die unavenged, but that certain punishment awaits you and your employers.
Indeed, had it not been for theantidote of chlorine and the mixed oxides of iron which I fortunately hit upon, death must have ensued in the case of each of us.
It was for that reason that I was enabled to administer an antidote without making an exact diagnosis.
Quinidine is almost as powerful an antidote to malaria as quinine; cinchonidine has about two-thirds the power of quinine, and cinchonine less than one-half.
While these reflections were passing rapidly through my mind, and despair once more taking possession of my spirits, I all at once remembered having heard that tobacco is a powerful antidote to snake-poison.
Amid the fibres of these roots lay the antidote to the snake-poison--in their sap was the saviour of my rife!
The sight of the blood, and the stinging sensation of the wound, soon brought me to my senses again, and admonished me of the necessity of taking immediate steps to procure an antidote to the poison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antidote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
