anoint
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Joe Talbot hauntingly asks, “Do you love your blessed father? / Anoint by fear of death / Do you feel the lies creep on by? / As soft as baby’s breath.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Anoint yourself with that, and you shall have in you the strength of seven, and anoint your shield with it, and neither fire nor sword shall harm you.
From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various
May Butter, yellow Wax and unflackt Lime, made to a Salve, and Anoint therewith, is a present Remedy.
From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert
And then— They to the polish'd marble baths repair, Anoint with fresh perfumes their flowing hair, And seek the banquet hall.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Enable with perpetual light, The dulness of our blinded sight; Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of Thy grace.
From The Rosary by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
Vocabulary lists containing anoint
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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