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How To Use unguent In A Sentence

• He often claimed that the gods had given men an easy life but that it had been spoiled by their seeking after honey, cheese cakes and unguents.
• I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me … Knowledge is Power
• The basic equipment of an athlete consisted only of an unguent jar (aryballos) of oil and a scraping instrument (strigil) for anointing and cleaning himself, though for various events a competitor might need boxing thongs, jumping weights, discus, or javelin. The Ancient Olympics (1996)
• Wine-based oils were popularly used for anointing the forehead with perfumed unguents.
• This material consisted mainly of ceramics (of which a high percentage of unguentaria fragments), fauna (animal bone of sheep and goat; parts that served for consumption) and concentrations of metal (nails) and stucco (painted plaster found in a specific lenzing within the debris). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths
• I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent. Locust Valley Breakdown
• Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737. More Science From an Easy Chair
• A classification was made distinguishing between pottery intended for agricultural production (production, transport, storage); kitchenware (intended for food preparation or cooking); table wares (for serving or consumption) and pottery for other purposes, such as cosmetics (e.g. unguentaria). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 14: Urban
• Now, Sharpe, the fly in our unguent is the fact these royal guards are all Irish. Sharpe's Battle
• The human spiritus can be affected by material things like incenses, collyries, unguents, philters, and other substances used to cause magical effects. Loss of Faith