apothecary

How To Use apothecary In A Sentence

• It is set in an unpromising block, but once you heft aside the wooden door you find yourself in an old apothecary, with glass-fronted cabinets, wood-panelled walls and waitresses in dirndls.
• It was full of jars and dried plants and reminded her of Gwenell's apothecary at the Citadel. MEDALON
• The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle
• In regard to the daily, or even the occasional use of the stronger drugs of the apothecary's shop -- whether this _shop_ is found in the family or elsewhere -- I would fain hope many of our young women may claim an entire immunity. The Young Woman's Guide
• Alexander had been a personable young man, a good apothecary who had made an honest marriage with a doctor's daughter. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• `I am a leech and an apothecary, not your personal physician. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• This last mentioned person had been bred with an apothecary, and sometimes travelled the country in the high capacity of a quack doctor, at others, in the more humble station of a merry-andrew. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• The special ingredients of his elixir were a few crushed cherry and eucalyptus leaves that he scavenged from the trash behind the neighborhood apothecary's shop. Stalling
• It is true that you cannot make a good chemist, or even apothecary, without giving days and weeks to exact use of balances or to watching filter papers and the like but the mere layman may learn in a short time with profit the meaning of a chemical equation, and find a kind of diagrammatic knowledge sufficient to meet all he requires. Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War
• He used the word apothecary instead of doctor on purpose, and, as he explained afterwards, used it “to insult him.” The Brothers Karamazov