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Example sentences for "castor"

Lexicographically close words:
castitatis; castle; castled; castles; castling; castoreum; castors; castorum; castra; castrate
  1. Inevitably, at that moment She appears, carrying a bottle with horrible yellow stuff floating in it--Castor Oil!

  2. Bay rum two pints, alcohol one pint, castor oil one ounce, carb.

  3. Best white castor oil; pour in a little strong solution of sal tartar in water, and shake it until it looks thick and white.

  4. Give an emetic, then follow with cathartics, such as castor oil, and epsom salts especially.

  5. De medicine I remember was castor oil, and dogwood and cherry bark, which dey put in whiskey and gib you.

  6. If you been berry sick, doctor gib you calomus (calomel) or castor oil.

  7. Give lee nigger big dose of castor oil, and dey git well quick, mighty quick.

  8. To Manlia she whispered venomously: "Castor be thanked, he is certain to be killed, Aurelius has attended to that.

  9. The thought of the little boy whose mother gave him a nickle every time he took his castor oil manfully came to his mind as he sat and gazed out the window.

  10. When asked what he did with the nickles, the Spartan youth had replied: "Buy more castor oil with it.

  11. On the continent its use is almost limited to simple decorative patterns of scrolls or foliage, but in Britain it was largely adopted, as in the well-known Castor ware made on the site of that name (Durobrivae) in Northamptonshire.

  12. The Castor ware appears to date from the 3rd and 4th centuries A.

  13. Jar of Castor ware, with reliefs of a stag pursued by a hound, executed in semi-fluid slip.

  14. Gemini (the Twins) is known by two very bright stars, Castor and Pollux, five degrees asunder.

  15. Castor (the northern) is of the first, and Pollux of the second, magnitude.

  16. The castor of the text, and other perfumes, may mean musk, civet, and ambergris.

  17. These may possibly be the nuts of the Ricinus Palma Christi, from which the castor oil is extracted.

  18. In some versions Leda is represented as having brought forth two eggs, from one of which were born Castor and Pollux, from the other Helen.

  19. A considerable quantity of castor oil of an excellent quality is also made in Italy; and in California the manufacture is conducted on an extensive scale.

  20. Though their worship was perhaps most carefully observed among people of Dorian origin, Castor and Pollux were held in no small veneration at Rome.

  21. They presided over public games, Castor especially as the horse-tamer, Pollux as the boxer; but both are represented as riding on horseback or driving in a chariot.

  22. Castor oil is a viscid liquid, almost colourless when pure, possessing only a slight odour, and a mild yet highly nauseous and disagreeable taste.

  23. In another account, Zeus is the father of Pollux and Helen, Tyndareus (king of Sparta) of Castor and Clytaemnestra.

  24. The Romans believed the stars were the famous Greek warriors Castor and Pollux, placed in the heavens after their deaths.

  25. Gemini, of course, was the constellation of the Twins, Castor and Pollux.

  26. Very excellent subjects are sunflowers, the large-growing nicotianas, castor beans, large varieties of Indian corn, and plants of like growth.

  27. Good plants for such use are: sunflower and castor bean for the back rows; zinnias for bright effects in the scarlets and lilacs; African marigolds for brilliant yellows; nicotianas for whites.

  28. Ledae pignera: Castor and Pollux, the latter famous as a boxer.

  29. Another story of divine interposition on the part of Castor and Pollux is vividly told by Macaulay in The Battle of Lake Regillus.

  30. If the child seems feverish, take the temperature If the bowels are constipated, give a teaspoonful of castor oil; but no other medicine without the doctor's orders.

  31. Some cathartic, usually castor oil, is required with a severe attack.

  32. The important thing, therefore, is to clear out from the intestines all undigested food by some active cathartic, such as castor oil.

  33. Stimulant emetics, castor oil, and animal charcoal are the remedies to trust to.

  34. In addition to emetics, castor oil, and animal charcoal, benefit may be derived from administering strong coffee.

  35. If the irritant has passed out of the stomach into the intestines it must be carried off by purgatives, especially castor oil.

  36. To prevent a fatal result from the use of henbane or others of this group, we must trust to stimulant emetics, as sulphate of zinc, and full doses of castor oil, so as to get rid of the offending substance.

  37. In addition to the administration of emetics and castor oil, some infusion containing tannin, as strong tea, &c.

  38. As for me Benjie--I freely confess that I could not have told whether I was eating biscuit or blancmange; nay, I verily believe you might have palmed castor oil on me for coffee, and I never would have noticed it.

  39. The figure, in size and general appearance, is more like castor oil alone, but the holes spread less uniformly in a given time, a few being larger, but the greater portion much smaller.

  40. The treatment of piles consists in the administration of mild aperients, as castor oil, or an electuary of sulphur and cream of tartar.

  41. These consist of two varieties, the first being 10 grammes of extract of male fern, the second a mixture of 8 grammes each of raspberry juice and castor oil.

  42. In the same manner may be prepared syrups from the oil of skate, castor oil, &c.

  43. From oil of turpentine and castor oil, equal parts; tinged yellow with a little palm oil or annotta.

  44. Sluggishness of the bowels may be removed by a little castor oil; or, when there is actual constipation, by a little calomel or mercurial powder and rhubarb.

  45. In the acute form of the disease recourse should be had to leeches, hot fomentations, and warm baths; a dose of calomel, to be followed by a brisk dose of castor oil, should likewise be administered.

  46. The captain stuck by the ship, not so much from gallantry, as from a conviction that it was idle to resist Castor or Pollux, whichever it was that had come for him in a ball of fire.

  47. We mariners call these fiery globes Castor and Pollux.

  48. Castor and Pollux fighting on white horses for Rome against the Latians, left the prints of their hoofs on a rock at Regillum.

  49. But if Castor come without Pollux, or Pollux without Castor, she is doomed.

  50. Helena= (Hel'ena) when a child was so beautiful that Theseus and Perithous stole her, but she was restored by Castor and Pollux.

  51. Castor and Pollux are also known under the name of Dioscuri, the presiding deities of public games in Rome, Castor being the god of equestrian exercise, and Pollux the god of boxing.

  52. Wiskain, nothing discouraged, charged the musk-rat with the commission which the castor was unable to perform.

  53. The castor obeyed the order, but he was so fat that he could not possibly descend to the bottom, and he had to return without any earth.

  54. Benign stars on earth, as Castor and Pollux were in heaven.

  55. Look again at them; no better riders and more affectionate brothers since the date of Castor and Pollux.

  56. Here I was stopped by the innocent youth's remark, that I certainly was quizzing, for he knew that Castor and Pollux were the same in Latin as in English.

  57. After leaving the Vatican, Corinne conducted him to the Colossi of Mount Cavallo; these two statues represent, as it is said, Castor and Pollux.


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