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"Quinine" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Tonic water contains quinine.
Gin and tonic was the favored drink of British colonials due to its antimalarial quinine content.
That drug is a derivative of quinine.
Quinine isn't a panacea.
The alkali of yellow bark may be distinguished from cinchonine by the name of quinine.
The quinine, being more potent than cinchonine, is generally preferred.
In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.
He hadn't the faintest idea what to do with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
“Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”
Quinine, taken in the evening, is considered by the Persians as an aphrodisiac aid.
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I propose that the availability of increased stores of quinine under British control had a similar facilitating effect on the British colonial expansion into Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
So far, the daily dose of quinine had been bitter and very unpalatable. […] To make the medicine go down more easily, colonialists occasionally mixed the powder with sugar, water and gin.
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