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
He desired nothing but the cold sheets of his bed and a bottle of embrocation.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
When all signs of pain are gone, the turpentine is then lowered to one-third, the embrocation being applied only once a-day, because it now gives actual pain.
From The Dog by Dinks
Now it would have been singularly easy to have affixed a different label to my unrivaled peach-bloom cosmetic and have supplied him with a sure-to-heal embrocation.
From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss
My dear," Miss Gallup said confidentially, "Em'ly-Alice has gone to the surgery for my cough mixture and some embrocation, and she takes such a time.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
