saponaceous
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Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?'
From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
It is a soft, saponaceous substance, not unpleasant to the taste, of a bluish color, and melts in the mouth, like the fat of cold meat, leaving the palate greasy.
From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
Dr. Russel greatly recommends the Use of Sea Water along with the saponaceous Medicines.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald
