How To Use Unguent In A Sentence
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At Rome, in the keenest time of her degringolade, when there was gambling even in the holy temples, great ladies (does not Lucian tell us?) did not scruple to squander all they had upon unguents from
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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We'll let's hope that it was tofu-pudding and not some awful unguent of similar viscosity.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He anoints his body with an endless series of unguents, emollients, lubricants, and conditioners.
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OBJECTIVE : To study the influence package on weight and appearance and active ingredient content of unguent.
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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
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Spicel. de morbis daemoniacis, sic a sacrificulis parati unguentis Magicis corpori illitis, ut stultae plebeculae persuadeant tales curari a Sancto Antonio.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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With her own prescriptions and unguents, she promptly tended me.
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So many of these trendy new unguents are one-hit wonders, while others survive the tyranny of being fashionable and come to be favourite companions for all time.
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Traditionally perfumes were made from plant and animal substances and prepared in the form of waters, oils, unguents, powders, and incense.
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Rakael sighed with relief as the unguent began to take effect.
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I believe I have an unguent that is most efficacious in this sort of matter.
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Still, what can be wrong with applying classical music as an unguent to the sores of a sick society?
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Then there are the more obvious drawbacks in dating out of your age group, such as the fight for space in a medicine cabinet already stuffed with unguents for sore muscles and receding gums.
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The Ladies in Waiting, having applied the unguent, retired to the dressing chamber.
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The past few days have been a blur of phone calls, and emails, and arrangements, and fidgety trips to drugstores looking for pills, unguents and toiletries in the tiniest conceivable packages.
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A delightful unguent jar from Mostagedda carved from ivory in the form of a hippopotamus argues that the animal attracted favourable attention.
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …
Knowledge is Power
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As we walked through the garden, round the house, a cloud of rich aromatic oils and unguents followed him.
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“Tum si coronas, serta, unguenta iusserit ancillam ferre Veneri aut Cupidini, tuos servos servet, Venerine eas det an viro. si forte pure velle habere dixerit, 800 tot noctes reddat spurcas quot pure habuerit.” haec sunt non nugae, non enim mortualia.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Wine-based oils were popularly used for anointing the forehead with perfumed unguents.
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London, soon, that unguentaria shall outstrip its Roman perfection!
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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Hannah rubbed her with a linen cloth and a skin unguent to remove the grime of the outside world.
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They are often used either as adornment, or as an ingredient in potions, unguents or medicaments when crushed into powder.
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Emperors, that unguentaria reached its zenith, and shall it not be in
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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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.
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The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin.
The Ancient Olympics (1996)
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Wine-based oils were popularly used for anointing the forehead with perfumed unguents.
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This material consisted mainly of ceramics (of which a high percentage of unguentaria fragments), fauna (animal bone of sheep and goat; parts that served for consumption) and concentrations of metal (nails) and stucco (painted plaster found in a specific lenzing within the debris).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths
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I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent.
Locust Valley Breakdown
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Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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A classification was made distinguishing between pottery intended for agricultural production (production, transport, storage); kitchenware (intended for food preparation or cooking); table wares (for serving or consumption) and pottery for other purposes, such as cosmetics (e.g. unguentaria).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 14: Urban
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Now, Sharpe, the fly in our unguent is the fact these royal guards are all Irish.
Sharpe's Battle
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The human spiritus can be affected by material things like incenses, collyries, unguents, philters, and other substances used to cause magical effects.
Loss of Faith
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Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitissoe, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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The doctor applied an unguent to the wound, which speedily healed it.
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Right, two Late Roman to Early Byzantine unguentaria from the Macellum.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies Report 1
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And the constipation that comes with this diet gives them even more excuse to hog the bathroom, when they're not applying unguents from one of the new lines of male cosmetics, that is.
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …
Knowledge is Power
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Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitiss, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it
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The Journey to Flanders. 1569
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The bathroom is filled with soothing, perfumed unguents, strangely shaped tools for massage, oils, candles, a luxury indulgence which can only be matched by Harrods!
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As a rule, the fistula is dilated by a tent of alder-pith, mandragora, briony or gentian, the lining membrane destroyed by an ointment of quick-lime or even the actual cautery, and the wound then dressed with egg-albumen followed by the _unguentum viride_.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Hundreds of glass fragments were carefully excavated, together with pieces of oil lamps, drinking cups, and different kinds of unguentaria (small bottles for perfumes and aromatic oils).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5
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The ancients say that, in the western Pyramid, are thirty chambers of parti-coloured syenite, full of precious gems and treasures galore and rare images and utensils and costly weapons which are anointed with egromantic unguents, so that they may not rust until the day of
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Unconsciously she reached for her paints and unguents, seeking to repair the damage her instant of terror had caused to her perfect face.
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As expected, the shower facilities were well-stocked with towels and lotions and unguents of all sorts, spotlessly clean, and brightly lit, in a welcoming, warmly incandescent kind of way.
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You have a bathroom full of oils, unguents and miracle products that you are always forgetting to use, but now is the time to go into high-maintenance overdrive.
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For making _extraits_, such as extrait de violette, jasmin, the pomades of hard corps are to be preferred; but when scented pomade is to be used in fabrication of unguents for the hair, pomades of soft corps are the most useful.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
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They are often used either as adornment, or as an ingredient in potions, unguents or medicaments when crushed into powder.
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So don't indulge in a 40-minute luxurious soak, using up all the hot water and most of the host's nicest unguents, and then wonder why everyone's a bit tight-lipped.
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Sure, someone recently offered to send me some kind of unguent to evaluate, but I declined.
Comfy Chairs: Riding and Reading
