embrocation

Example Sentences

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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

"She never told me about the embrocation," said Sally, leaning back against the mossed stones of the bench and looking up into the web of branches.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin

Liza rubs me with embrocation every night, but it torments me cruel.'

From Liza of Lambeth by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

They're much as usual, except that I had to pay two bob on Wednesday for a bottle of embrocation for Ally.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

"But the time may come, Timothy, when we may find ourselves without money, as we were when we first commenced our career, and shared three-pence halfpenny each, by selling the old woman the embrocation."

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick