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Example sentences for "unguent"

Lexicographically close words:
ungry; ungs; ungual; unguarded; unguardedly; unguents; unguessable; unguessed; unguided; unguis
  1. He therefore offered the gaoler a bribe to kill the Moor, by giving him a slight wound and anointing it with a poisonous unguent which Heliche would send.

  2. The gaoler divulged the plot, and the page of the Marquis was captured with the unguent in his possession.

  3. Moreover, that unguent of thine is a fraud.

  4. After that she sought for an unguent of a red colour, and smeared it on a part of the floor by the corner of the room, and wrote on it in silver fluid a word that was the word 'Eblis,' and over that likewise she droned awhile.

  5. Presently they were aware of the cry of a Cat, and its miaulings; and the patch of red unguent on the floor parted and they beheld a tawny Cat with an arched back.

  6. Ser Perth sends you this unguent which will hold back the venom for a time, cautioning you not to reveal his softness.

  7. The unguent helped, but it wasn't enough.

  8. Quite Greek in character are the strange little unguent pots that come from Cyprus.

  9. I refer to the 'splashed' glass, an old method of decoration indeed, for we have found something very like it on certain little unguent vases of the ancient Egyptians.

  10. East Africa, their faith in an unguent of lion's fat, viii.

  11. Unguent of lion's fat, magic virtue of an, viii.

  12. Of unguent ground by any other he does not approve, and hence I am enriched through his liberal rewards.

  13. And she gave them as much of the unguent as was sufficient for their persons.

  14. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.

  15. Note: An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.

  16. Defn: A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.

  17. For me, had I some unguent bound to heal Hurts in a twinkling, hardly would I dare Essay its virtue and so cross the sage By cure his skill pronounces folly.

  18. In a later form it is not a particular unguent seller who meets the Maries on the way to the tomb, but a type,--Unguent Seller.

  19. The unguent was made up of such ingredients that whatever metal it came into contact with would, in the space of three hours, turn to rust.

  20. Tirant, under the pretext that he was simply looking, went near them, and spreading some of the unguent he had prepared over his hand, he put it on every one of the bombards.

  21. The name is attributable to the unguent for the hair commonly used in the early 19th century,--Byron calls it "thine incomparable oil, Macassar.

  22. In such cases the influence of the god, communicated to the victim, passed with the unguent into the stone.

  23. So she put a golden box into his hand and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.

  24. She touches her own eyes with the unguent kept for anointing the eyes of her master's little boy, and in consequence catches her master kissing a lovely lady.

  25. In England it seems to have been held in former days that witches stole children from their cradles before baptism to make an oil or unguent by boiling them to a jelly.

  26. A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.

  27. So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.

  28. Macassar in Celebes, magical unguent in, i.

  29. See also Menstruous Unguent made from fat of crocodiles and snakes, i.

  30. When the hermits rose from their bathing, and were offering a sacrifice, the sun in the sky seemed to bear upwards before our eyes the offering cast on the ground, with its unguent of red sandal-wood.

  31. The only remedy for the evil is an unguent of oil or butter, a precaution which should never be neglected by the African traveller.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unguent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adipose; anoint; balm; balsam; blubbery; cream; daub; demulcent; dress; emollient; fat; fatty; grease; greasy; lanolin; lard; lenitive; lotion; lubricate; oil; oily; ointment; pomade; rich; salve; sebaceous; sleek; slick; slippery; smear; smooth; soapy; tallowy; unction; unctuous; unguent; wax