hartshorn

Example Sentences

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The second night, I applied a liberal dose of white liniment—Uncle Holt’s own concoction of hartshorn, arnica, witch hazel, camphor gum, eggs, and cider vinegar.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

With hartshorn in hand, Came Doctor Tom-Tit, Saying, "Really, good sirs, It's only a fit."

From National Rhymes of the Nursery by Various

Jews with faces white from exhaustion sat in the anteroom resting and refreshing themselves with a pinch of snuff, or a drop of hartshorn, and a few words of conversation.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

I take them drops, hartshorn and valerian, on a little water, when I feel nervous like.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Gideon procured 21,000 bank-notes, rolled them round a phial of hartshorn, and thus mockingly repaid the loan.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter