oil of cloves
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“I didn’t do it, Princess. I was the one who comforted him afterward, rubbed oil of cloves on the wounds and gave him warm milk in a bottle to remind him of his mother.”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
The pain was beyond the bailiwick of crushed aspirins or oil of cloves.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Then plug it with cotton, on which a drop of oil of cloves has been put if you have it.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
Louis B. Parsons, Montclair, New Jersey.—If you will put a very little oil of cloves, or still better, a few drops of creosote, into your ink, it will not trouble you by moulding.
From Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Chloretone dissolved in oil of cloves and applied on a cotton wad is very good for toothache.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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