Nightfall, which in the frost of winter comes as a fiend and in the warmth of summer as a lover, came as a tranquillizer on this March day.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
A drink known variously as "The Chubbuck tranquillizer," or "The Chubbuck Exalter," was dispensed at the bars.
"Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories"
Bret Harte
Physical exercise, when the constitution is strong enough to endure it, is by far the best tranquillizer of the nervous system which has yet been discovered, and Sir Walter's life at Abbotsford was, in this respect at least, grounded on the true philosophy of conduct.
"The Intellectual Life"
=Philip Gilbert Hamerton