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Example sentences for "twelve grains"

  • Sulphate of zinc, twelve grains; wine of opium, one drachm; rose water, six ounces.

  • Iodine, twelve grains; lard or spermaceti ointment, half an ounce, makes a capital ointment for bunions.

  • When I first saw him he had reached a daily dose of twelve grains of sulphate of morphia, and on occasions of high excitement had increased his dose without exaggerating the sensible effect to nearly twenty.

  • My first task was to reduce it to forty, to thirty, and, as fast as I could, to twelve grains.

  • Calomel, six or eight grains; or, in an obstinate case, Turpeth Mineral or Yellow Mercury, six to twelve grains in a bolus.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blotting paper; got out; hour they; inch pots; life saving; present time; shall feed; twelve eggs; twelve fathoms; twelve hours; twelve hundred and sixty; twelve leagues; twelve millions; twelve minutes; twelve months; twelve ounces; twelve pounds; twelve shillings; twelve stones; twelve times; twelve volumes; twelve years; unless you; various sorts; what pleaseth; when ripe