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  • Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

  • Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

    Music   Baby   Two  
  • Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

    Humorous   Sarcasm   Doe  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford
  • My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform.

    Space   Ties   People  
  • Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?

    Book   Cutting   Thinking  
  • Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

  • The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

    Book   Chloroform   Print  
  • If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

    Sweet   Hate   Eye  
    George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press
  • Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

    Funny   Baby   Children  
    Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam
  • I have preferred chloroform to cancer

    Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1995). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings”, p.40, Syracuse University Press
  • American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting the Christian faith are unclear, they seem to have been profound and deep-rooted. Having lambasted the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in a later quote he referred to the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print."

  • All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics
  • Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

  • Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

    Sweet   Strong   Dark  
    William Ernest Henley, “Before”
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