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How To Use unguent In A Sentence

• He often claimed that the gods had given men an easy life but that it had been spoiled by their seeking after honey, cheese cakes and unguents.
• We'll let's hope that it was tofu-pudding and not some awful unguent of similar viscosity.
• They are often used either as adornment, or as an ingredient in potions, unguents or medicaments when crushed into powder.
• Pearl Hand traded a couple of pieces of shell for a pot of unguent made from spruce needles, boiled pine needles, and red root. Fire The Sky
• Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground. IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI
• She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas. The Certain Hour
• This powerful emmenagogue was a kind of unguent composed of several drugs, such as saffron, myrrh, etc., compounded with virgin honey. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
• He anoints his body with an endless series of unguents, emollients, lubricants, and conditioners.
• OBJECTIVE : To study the influence package on weight and appearance and active ingredient content of unguent.
• Unguents and astringents were in use in the physician's art, and there is reference to "nepenthe," a narcotic drug, and also to the use of sulphur as a disinfectant. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine