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

Nor had she reported receiving the packets of poultice that Miss Mortimer sent Penelope every few months, like clockwork.

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

“I think you have not been using the Swanburne hair poultice, as I asked you to do; am I right? Well, we shall discuss that shortly.”

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