amphora

How To Use amphora In A Sentence

• The shutters were closed and the drapes were drawn too, so the room, which smelled strongly of something like camphorated oil, was lit only by a lamp at the side of the bed. The Count's Blackmail Bargain
• Her right hand shields her pubic area, while her left arm is raised at the elbow and her left hand holds a piece of drapery that falls onto an amphora.
• The cup was discovered in 1917 in Turkey, within an amphora at the foot of an early Bronze Age tumulus.
• camphoraceous odor
• It carried luxury and everyday goods, including large amphorae and small vessels, such as perfume bottles. Times, Sunday Times
• In between, rub camphorated oil, eucalyptus oil, or balm on the affected side of the chest or back. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
• On this voyage its cargo was large wine containers called amphorae.
• Chemical analysis of residues in amphorae (the great storage jars of the Roman period) has proved that many did contain wine and olive oil, as had been assumed, but some contained wheat flour.
• Paregoric, added to some cough drops, originally referred to a camphorated opium compound, now reduced to a harmless flavouring.
• We report an 82-year-old woman who intentionally ingested about 300 ml of camphorated oil and developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mortality.