poultice

Example Sentences

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“And thanks to the hair poultice, you appeared to be one Swanburne girl among many,” Miss Mortimer interjected.

From Literature

The one time she had stopped using the poultice, her hair had soon begun to reveal its true color: a striking reddish brown, quite like the color of the children’s hair, and wonderfully shiny, too.

From Literature

“It is just as well,” she thought ruefully, as she worked a fresh coat of Miss Mortimer’s poultice into her hair.

From Literature

The truth was, Penelope had not bothered to open the last packet of hair poultice that Miss Mortimer had sent.

From Literature

I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

From Salon