plaster

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Every Saturday I could make or obtain leave, to the London Hospital trudged I. O! the bliss if I was permitted to hold the plaisters or attend the dressings....

From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

The poet Amaury was fond of decoctions, wrapped himself up in plaisters, and covered his chimney piece with phials and powders.

From Artists' Wives by Ensor, Laura

It fosters your masters, It plaisters disasters, It makes the servants quickly greater Than their masters.

From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Mackay, Charles

His lengthen'd chin, his turned-up snout, His eldritch squeel an' gestures, O how they fire the heart devout, Like cantharidian plaisters On sic a day!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

The Templars espoused the play, and went around with syringes charged with stinking oil, and with sticking plaisters; but it did not come to action.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter