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Example sentences for "asafoetida"

Lexicographically close words:
ary; aryse; arytenoid; asafetida; asan; asbestos; asbestus; ascarides; ascend
  1. Nothing annoys a Koravar so much as to mention the word asafoetida in his presence, for he takes it to be an insulting reference to the couvade.

  2. Directly a woman is brought to bed, she is given asafoetida rolled in betel leaf.

  3. She is then given a stimulant composed of asafoetida and other drugs.

  4. Asafoetida in three to five-grain pills is a splendid tonic in such cases, and in that form is pleasant to take.

  5. If you are sure it is hysteria, give a nasty tasting medicine, asafoetida is a splendid remedy, but not in pill form, for there is no taste or smell to them.

  6. Asafoetida Asafoetida is an antispasmodic, expectorant, excitant, and anthelmintic.

  7. Mix one drachm of the tincture of asafoetida in a pint of barley water.

  8. Garrod after much observation, he regards Asafoetida as one of the most valuable remedies known to the physician.

  9. Kilpatrick give sick niggers ipecac and asafoetida and oil and turpentine and black fever pills.

  10. Camphor and asafoetida in de bag round de neck good for de heart.

  11. Den dey keeps all kinds of lead bullets and asafoetida balls 'round our necks and some carried a rabbit foot wid dem all de time to keep off evil of any kind.

  12. Us wore asafoetida bags 'round the neck and it kep' off sickness.

  13. Asafoetida is a maiden's perfume to this!

  14. The asafoetida was worn to keep off contagious diseases, and the gold piece, which represented all his earthly possessions, had been given him by his grandmother the year she died.

  15. Around his neck, tied with a string, was a small greasy, dirty bag, containing a piece of gum asafoetida and a ten-dollar gold piece.

  16. Ole miss she make us wear a piece of lead 'round our necks fer de malaria and to keeps our nose from bleedin' and all of us wore some asafoetida 'round our necks to keep off contagion.

  17. Dey uster hang asafoetida 'roun' us neck in a li'l bag to keep us from ketch' de whoopin' cough and de measles.

  18. He remarked on the fact that the Persians employed asafoetida as a seasoning, while valerian was accounted a perfume in antiquity.

  19. Anodynes--preferably chloroform--and carminatives should be administered by the mouth, and enemata containing turpentine or asafoetida injected into the rectum.

  20. An enema of milk of asafoetida answers a good purpose.

  21. Well then, Your Majesty, it occurred to me that I ought to have planted a mark's worth of asafoetida under that bed.

  22. The War Lord grabbed a pencil and marked asafoetida on half a dozen pages of his daily calendar.

  23. When you come to think of it, asafoetida is mighty appropriate ammunition to use against the Jesuit disciple.

  24. Let me see how much asafoetida you've got," said Sneak, after they had walked a few moments in silence.

  25. Snap me, if I don't begin to believe that the asafoetida does charm them, after all.

  26. As reg'lar as I got up I allus drank my asafoetida and tar water.

  27. Dere's asafoetida in a bag and we wear's it roun' de neck.

  28. Den she put camphor ball and asafoetida 'round our necks to keep off diseases.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asafoetida" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.