All 8 Uses of
salve
in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- We lined up nude against the tile, and here one black boy came, a black plastic tube in his hand, squirting a stinking salve thick and sticky as egg white.†
Chpt 26
- And in that one second, with the laughing and kidding and complaining stopped, with Fredrickson there next to George straightening up and turning around and a big black boy about to ask George to lean his head down for a squirt of that stinking salve-right at that time all of us had a good idea about everything that was going to happen, and why it had to happen, and why we'd all been wrong about McMurphy.†
Chpt 26
- George was still bent over, gasping from the blow of that salve in his belly.†
Chpt 26
- McMurphy smoked while she dipped her little hand full of pink birthday candles into a jar of salve and worked over his cuts, flinching every time he flinched and telling him she was sorry.
Chpt 27 *salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
- She picked up one of his hands in both of hers and turned it over and salved his knuckles.†
Chpt 27
- Can smell the graphite salve, like the smell in a garage.†
Chpt 27
- They put the graphite salve on his temples.†
Chpt 27
- The graphite salve has iron filings in it, temples scratching.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(salve) a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
or:
anything that eases pain or anxiety; or the act of doing such