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Example sentences for "mace"

Lexicographically close words:
macaroons; macaw; macaws; maccaroni; macchi; macerate; macerated; macerating; maceration; maces
  1. At present they are members of Summit Friends Meeting in New Jersey, currently living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where David Mace is Professor of Family Sociology at the Behavioral Sciences Center, Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

  2. A flaw in a mace of white jade May be ground away; But for a flaw in speech Nothing can be done.

  3. At this, and very suddenly, the Knight loosed mace from saddle-bow, and therewith smote Sir Pertinax on rusty bascinet, and tumbled him backward among the bracken.

  4. Mace is the aromatic envelope of the Nutmeg, and possesses the same qualities in a minor degree.

  5. Mace is a membranaceous structure enveloping the Nutmeg, having a fleshy texture, and being of a light yellowish-brown colour.

  6. Aristophanes makes mention of the Mace in his comedy of frogs who were glad to have spent their day skipping about inter Cyperum et Phleum, among Galingale and Cat's-tail.

  7. Every year a number of junks sail from Malaca to Bandan [493] for mace and nutmeg, and from Bandan to Malucho for cloves.

  8. The third struck a blow with a mace at the monk as he passed, but it narrowly missed him; and on he too rode, with a bitter curse upon his lips.

  9. The battle-ax and the mace terminated the poor lad's existence in a moment; his body was dragged from that of the prostrate prince; and a blow with a spiked iron club dashed to pieces the skull of the gay and gallant Louis of Orleans.

  10. Around this is a “splendid crimson network” which is removed by hand and forms the mace of commerce.

  11. A small tree of the tropical regions of eastern Asia, known as Myristica fragrans, or perhaps better as Myristica moschata, is the source of both nutmeg and mace which come from different parts of the same plant.

  12. This covering or network is removed by hand and forms the mace of commerce.

  13. Both nutmeg and mace have been known in Europe only from about 1195 A.

  14. The mace fell out of his hands, and the little cross upon the crown thereof stuck fast between two stones in the street.

  15. Dublin, after his arrival from France, 1689, one of the gentlemen that bore the mace before him, stumbled without any rub in his way, or other visible occasion.

  16. When the high court of justice was voted in the parliament house, as Berkenhead (the mace bearer) took up the mace to carry it before the Speaker, the top of the mace fell off.

  17. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.

  18. From mace (beaten to a paste) and palm oil, of each 1 lb.

  19. From expressed oil of mace (nutmeg), 1 oz.

  20. Extract of opium made with quince juice; a few drops of the oils of cinnamon, cloves, and mace being added before the mass cools.

  21. Expressed oil of mace and ox marrow, of each 4 oz.

  22. The spices usually employed are mustard seed, allspice, and ginger, with a little mace and garlic.

  23. Open them, and separate the liquor from them, then free them from grit by washing, strain the liquor, and add it to the oysters with a small piece of mace and lemon peel, and a few white peppercorns.

  24. Besides the above, there is also a very inferior description, known as the long or wild nutmeg, which are met with either in the shell, out of the shell, or in the shell with the mace attached.

  25. A little oil of mace or tar is a useful addition.

  26. Cinnamon, or nutmeg, or a blade of mace may be used instead of the cloves.

  27. When gathered and the mace carefully preserved, the shells are removed and the nutmegs dried, being first thrown among quicklime, as otherwise worms would breed in and destroy them.

  28. The Bandanese call nutmegs palla, and mace buaa-palla.

  29. Mace is an effectual remedy for weakness of the stomach, helps digestion, expels bad humours, and cures flatulence.

  30. The mace is at first of a fine scarlet colour; but, when ripe, it falls off the shell, and is then of an orange colour, as it comes to Europe.

  31. A plaister of mace and nutmegs in powder, and diluted with rose-water, greatly strengthens the stomach.

  32. Stir in the flour and mace and bake in a very slow oven, in one large or two small loaf-cake pans.

  33. Sift the flour, baking powder, and mace together, and add alternately with the milk.

  34. Wilbur is going to give me a suit case full of hard tickets to the Friar Festival, and told me to mace every John I came across on the road for as many as he would stand for.

  35. One old frump that must have been tramming a mace in the Roman Hanging Gardens got a yen that was doing imitations she had Elsie Janis and Gertrude Hoffman looking like a couple of false starts.

  36. You'll go out and mace a good fellow for a big feed just as if he was a John.

  37. One quart or more vinegar and from two to three tablespoons of salt, one ounce of mace and one tablespoon each of black pepper, cayenne pepper, and ground cloves, one and one half pounds brown sugar.

  38. Add a carrot, a turnip and an onion with two cloves stuck in it, a little celery, a blade of mace and a small bouquet of garum.

  39. Pour two wineglasses of cold water or wine on it, one teaspoon salt, and a little mace if liked.

  40. Spices: whole white pepper, whole allspice, and a blade of mace if it is liked.

  41. A little mace is usual, but no onions or shallot.

  42. Flavor it with a little mace or cinnamon.

  43. Rub them all over with a mixture of pepper, salt, powdered mace and powdered nutmeg.

  44. Season it to your taste with salt, mace and nutmeg.

  45. Add bread-crumbs soaked in milk, and the yolks of two eggs or more, with salt, pepper, mace and nutmeg to your taste.

  46. Fifty thousand of his worshippers were pierced by the spear of the Moslems; the walls were scaled; the sanctuary was profaned; and the conqueror aimed a blow of his iron mace at the head of the idol.

  47. Lord Bishop of Beauvais, thy mace is as good a weapon as thy crosier.

  48. At length, however, while pressed upon in front by three lances, a powerful man-at-arms behind him raised above his head a mace that would have felled Goliah.

  49. Seizing the rope he began his ascent, the mace and the remainder of his bone daggers still slung around him.

  50. With long sword or with mace to fight their fill.

  51. A singular custom connected with the mace obtained at Leicester.

  52. At the conclusion of divine service all retired to the vestry, and the retiring mayor occupied the chair at the head of a table covered with a black cloth, in the middle of which lay the mace covered with rosemary and sprigs of bay.

  53. The mace as a weapon may be traced back to a remote period, and was a staff about five feet in length with a metal head usually spiked.

  54. In civic processions the mace is usually borne before the mayor, and when the sovereign visits a corporate town it is customary for the mayor to bear the mace before the monarch.

  55. The mace was formerly borne before the mayoress of Southampton when she went out in state.

  56. York the Lord Mayor shouldered the mace and carried it before her.

  57. On arrival at a certain place within the precincts of the stronghold the mayor had the great mace lowered from an upright position as a token of acknowledgment to the ancient feudal earls within their castle.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    armory; badge; bat; baton; blackjack; button; chain; cheat; club; collar; condiment; crook; crosier; cross; cudgel; decoration; dress; eagle; emblem; ensign; fasces; figurehead; heraldry; livery; mace; mantle; marking; medal; pepper; pin; portfolio; ream; regalia; ring; rod; rose; salt; scepter; shamrock; shillelagh; slam; spice; spontaneous; staff; strike; swastika; symbol; tartan; thistle; tie; uniform; verge; wand; wanton