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
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
Bring a cushion out of the drawing-room, Edith, my love, and ask Baba for the hartshorn drops.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
I need no salts for my stomach, no hartshorn for my head, nor wash for my complexion; I can gallop all the morning after the hunting-horn, and all the evening after a fiddle.
From The Recruiting Officer by Farquhar, George
May be cured by shaking together equal parts of olive oil and hartshorn, and rubbing the wound and adjacent parts three or four times a day.
