anoint
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Joe Talbot hauntingly asks, “Do you love your blessed father? / Anoint by fear of death / Do you feel the lies creep on by? / As soft as baby’s breath.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Anoint it all over with tallow; temper it in a gentle charcoal fire, and let it cool of itself.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
Meand'ring stream! thy liquid jaws extend, Anoint with Lethe now thy fallen friend.
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
But, O Athenian, whosoe'er you are, Anoint this tomb and crown it with a wreath, If ever in old times he feasted with you.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
For the Stoppage of the Belly, that they cannot mute; Anoint their Vents, and give them either small bits of 64 Bread or Corn, steep’d in Urine of Man.
From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert
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