Salve

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"Salve" in a Sentence (16 examples)

This salve will act as a protective film over the burn.

The dogs were easily appeased by the well-known voices of their master and mistress, who conveyed the lacerated Dorcon to the spring, where they washed the bites which they discovered on his legs and shoulders. Then chewing some elm-leaves they spread them as a salve on the wounds.

The best brand of lip salve, in my opinion, is Burt's Bees.

Patience is a salve for all wounds.

A lovely bit of cake like this is the best salve for a wounded heart.

Jude had one day seen him selling a pot of coloured lard to an old woman as a certain cure for a bad leg, the woman arranging to pay a guinea, in instalments of a shilling a fortnight, for the precious salve, which, according to the physician, could only be obtained from a particular animal which grazed on Mount Sinai, and was to be captured only at great risk to life and limb.

"Yes." And Jude told him the names and addresses of the cottagers who were willing to test the virtues of the world-renowned pills and salve. The quack mentally registered these with great care.

Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.

[Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report

She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]

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I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."

But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.

He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

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