How To Use Apothecary In A Sentence
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It is set in an unpromising block, but once you heft aside the wooden door you find yourself in an old apothecary, with glass-fronted cabinets, wood-panelled walls and waitresses in dirndls.
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America -- applied for employment as army-physician; but Mr Hunter, the director-general of the medical department of the army, considering none eligible for such employment who had not served as staffer regimental surgeon, or apothecary to the forces, Jackson agreed to accept, in the first instance, the surgeoncy of the 3d
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852
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At the corner of the quadrivium is the apothecary's shop, in which was a large collection of surgical instruments, mortars, drugs, and pills.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The rest of the errands were much like others he had run in the past, except for one small item; among the other items Cameron wanted from the apothecary was a remarkable quantity of laudanum, and for the first time since Paul had known him, a small amount of morphia.
Red dust
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For several years, the artist has been making colored wax casts of containers that resemble antique apothecary bottles and jars, and shelving them in vitrines, wooden cabinets or on painted ledges.
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His mother evidently expected that both he and she herself would be relieved on the spot, but the Apothecary durst not be hopeful, though he gave the child a draught which he called a febrifuge, and which put him to sleep, and bade the lady take another of the like if she wished for a good night's rest.
Grisly Grisell
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So even if you don't want to be a pharmacist or an apothecary, even if you're just taking Advanced because your parents made you, this is a good lesson for all of you.
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The store is offering 50% off all merchandise storewide, which also includes accessories, apothecary, framed art, stationery and apparel.
Shopping Sales To Start The New Year
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pottinger," or apothecary, as in the real old Scotch affair.
A Collection of Ballads
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Gesturing to the apprentice, the Apothecary went back through the curtain with the assorted bottled healing draughts.
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(apothecary), which had in early Scottish the aphetic forms Poticar, potigar --
The Romance of Names
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An ancient-looking apothecary, with an old "Rebel bushwhacker" and a painter out of work who "loafed" of evenings in, or in front of, the corner apothecary shop, had stood gap-mouthed at these recitations until the mine of wonders had been to the last grain exhausted.
A Strange Discovery
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It is added that with all these aromatics were to be united stacte, onyx, galbanum, and frankincense; and that a perfume was to be mixed up according to the art of the apothecary or perfumer.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Watercolor painters before c. 1800 had to make paints themselves using pigments purchased from an apothecary or specialized "colourman"; the earliest commercial paints were small, resinous blocks that had to be wetted and laboriously "rubbed out" in water.
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But we know, from Knox, that ballads were recited against the Maries, and that one of the Mary's chamberwomen was hanged, with her lover, a pottinger, or apothecary, for getting rid of her infant.
A Collection of Ballads
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But the apothecary, who perhaps had more penetration or less partiality than his wife and daughter, differed from them in their sentiments of the matter, and expressed himself to me in the shop in this manner: “Ah mon pauvre Roderique! you have more of de veracite dan of de prudence — bot mine vife and dater be diablement sage, and Monsieur le Capitaine un fanfaron, pardieu!”
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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The apothecary was a decently dressed young man with a kindly air and reasonably clean hands.
Drums of Autumn
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It was — the government controlled it and the drugstores — and they were called apothecary shops carried tobacco.
Oral History Interview with Thomas Henderson, October 28, 1999. Interview K-0228. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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Just as the apothecary and avoirdupois systems of measurement have faded from our texts so should Young's, Cowling's, Fried's, and Clarke's equations fade into history.
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In the apothecary's bill he offered me in payment of my salary, and which he wrote out himself, he stated the weight of this box, which he called a bale, at eleven hundred pounds, and charged me with the carriage of it at an enormous rate.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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The focus circle is more purely decorative and should contain the de rigueur apothecary rose for authenticity and underplanted will a hardy lavender such as 'Hidcote' or 'Munstead.'
FRENCH KITCHEN GARDENS 2009: MAKE WAY FOR THE POTAGER
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Some of the earliest ledgers date from 1821, when the High Street apothecary kept his records in meticulous copperplate handwriting.
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This weekend I tidied up the main categorised Apothecary's Drawer pages, pruned dead links, etc.
Miscellanea continued
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The apothecary, Harold, was robbed of some herbs and balms, as I am sure you know.
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The little apothecary hesitated for a moment, his eyes narrowed against the glare of the morning sun that shone through the lozenged panes behind me.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Mr. Jarvie's, whose dinner hour was now approaching, I stopped at a small unpretending shop, the sign of which intimated the indweller to be Christopher Neilson, surgeon and apothecary.
Rob Roy
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We peeped through the window of an old-fashioned apothecary.
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You see, Will" -- every body called the apothecary's clerk Will -- "we had a school and Sid kept it, and he licked the fellers, and they couldn't stand it.
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
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Using easily recyclable glass apothecary type bottles and tins the packaging is also sustainable.
19 posts from January 2008
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(whence our word apothecary) feeling my pulse and looking at me with an air of sagacity.
Burlesques
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I'm the apothecary, the cutpurse, and the maid.
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Here, then, for six interminable years, one of the acutest brains in Europe had to interest itself in fraying ipecacuanha and mixing black draughts behind an apothecary's counter.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is a liniment from the Chinese apothecary called dit da jow.
Rub It In
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He took two steps over to the almanac calendar hanging next to the apothecary's chest, and peered at it thoughtfully.
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The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
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In regard to the daily, or even the occasional use of the stronger drugs of the apothecary's shop -- whether this _shop_ is found in the family or elsewhere -- I would fain hope many of our young women may claim an entire immunity.
The Young Woman's Guide
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Alexander had been a personable young man, a good apothecary who had made an honest marriage with a doctor's daughter.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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`I am a leech and an apothecary, not your personal physician.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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This last mentioned person had been bred with an apothecary, and sometimes travelled the country in the high capacity of a quack doctor, at others, in the more humble station of a merry-andrew.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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The special ingredients of his elixir were a few crushed cherry and eucalyptus leaves that he scavenged from the trash behind the neighborhood apothecary's shop.
Stalling
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It is true that you cannot make a good chemist, or even apothecary, without giving days and weeks to exact use of balances or to watching filter papers and the like but the mere layman may learn in a short time with profit the meaning of a chemical equation, and find a kind of diagrammatic knowledge sufficient to meet all he requires.
Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War
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He used the word apothecary instead of doctor on purpose, and, as he explained afterwards, used it “to insult him.”
The Brothers Karamazov
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We there found some fine specimens of blue carbonated copper mingled with sulphate of barytes and quartz; but we could not ourselves judge whether the ore contained any argentiferous fahlerz, and whether it occurred in a stratum, or, as the apothecary who was our guide asserted, in real veins.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Then he had a herald of arms, a physician, an apothecary, four minstrels, a keeper of his tents, an armourer and instructor of his wards, an instructor of his wardrobe of robes, a keeper of his chamber continually; he had also in his house a surveyor of York, a clerk of the greencloth.
The Customs of Old England
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The apothecary came in his pony and trap just before Pa got home.
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The troy and apothecary systems have pounds that are only 5,250 grains.
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It also comes in a squat Victorian apothecary-style bottle with cork stopper.
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If poisons are mixed with articles of food or medicine by the negroes with any noticeable frequency, the sign of a negro compounding medicines for public sale would surely be, to customers, the most detersive sign which an apothecary could erect over his premises.
The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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The fly in the ointment of the apothecary was a baby to you.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892
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It was full of jars and dried plants and reminded her of Gwenell's apothecary at the Citadel.
MEDALON
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Cases of glittering instruments have been opened, lint and bandages and splints are in their proper places, and the apothecary and bayman are getting the cots in trim for instant use.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
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I bullied and bounced (it sticks to our last sand), and compelled the apothecary to make his salve according to the Edinburgh dispensatory, that it might adhere better.
Obiter Dicta Second Series
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The wits and humorists, the distinguished worthies of the town or village, the apothecary, the attorney, even the curate himself, did not disdain to partake of this hebdomadal festivity.
Rob Roy
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Apothecary planes were used by pharmacists or apothecaries to cut botanical materials into medically usable sizes.
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_A fuer de_ legítimo After the manner of a genuine boticario. apothecary.
Novelas Cortas
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Hindoo pothukoor (whence our word apothecary) feeling my pulse and looking at me with an air of sagacity.
Burlesques
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In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three hundred francs, — one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary who had attended and physicked Eponine and Azelma through two long illnesses.
Les Miserables
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Here, then, for six interminable years, one of the acutest brains in Europe had to interest itself in fraying ipecacuanha and mixing black draughts behind an apothecary's counter.
Henrik Ibsen
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She finally began to calm as she lathered the Apothecary's shampoo — guaranteed not tested on mythical creatures — into her hair, and by the time she'd sudsed, rinsed, and dried, she'd relaxed considerably.
Blood Lines
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Be that as it may, the newspapers have teemed with his 'injuria formæ,' and he has been embrocated, and invisible to all but the apothecary ever since.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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O, you'll do!" the apothecary answered, with a laugh; but he said, in answer to an anxious question from the lady, "He mustn't be moved for an hour yet," and gayly pestled away at a prescription, while she resumed her office of grinding the pounded ice round and round upon her husband's skull.
Complete March Family Trilogy
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Send to the first apothecary of your town for some litharge; throw into it one grain of the red powder which
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I bullied and bounced, it sticks to our last sand, and compelled the apothecary to make his salve according to the Edinburgh dispensatory, that it might adhere better.
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..."
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People stepped up onto the covered porches of shops, took off their sandals, and brushed past the hanging banners whose ideograms and painted representations advertised the nature of the shop within: bakery; sandals; bed nets; savory pies; candies; apothecary; milled and unmilled grains.
Spirit Gate
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And there was to end of talismans, charms and spells that could be purchased from the local wise woman or apothecary.