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  • With a bottle of peroxide and a can of salve I would doctor their wounds.   (source)
    salve = cream or liquid that is put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
  • 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.   (source)
    salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
  • It allowed him to get paid for the same job twice, and to salve any guilt he felt about working for a demonic multinational corporation like IOI.†   (source)
  • Claude had smeared a glistening salve over the wound.†   (source)
  • A young woman slipped me a tin of salve while we were waiting in line for breakfast.†   (source)
  • The fingers are so delicate ...Our good Maester Pycelle makes a marvelous salve, shall I send for a jar?†   (source)
  • But he'd been the salve she needed for her wounds, the justification she was afraid to give herself.†   (source)
  • Still would if it wasn't for a salve my mother concocted.†   (source)
  • They kissed Kriss and me on both cheeks and yelled "Salve!"†   (source)
  • What with the salve, the gauze and the tape, I can't get my heavenly new shoe on my foot.†   (source)
  • 'Well?' said Root, slapping at a paramedic gremlin who was applying burn salve to his forehead.†   (source)
  • I've tried everything: salves, poultices, tinctures, but nothing works.†   (source)
  • I should get a salve on this.†   (source)
  • "Salve," Marcus said, a friendly Latin hello for the deadly reptile.†   (source)
  • He's so disturbed, I can see him pulling out a knife and stabbing me just to salve his pain.†   (source)
  • The healer woman put a comfrey salve on it to draw out the pestilence.†   (source)
  • My Dearest Son: Your long-awaited note containing your present address and the instructions for the Rheumatism Salve arrived today.†   (source)
  • This is an attempt at an emotional salve, but it's obvious you don't want to put any medicine in the wound.†   (source)
  • Vidar wrapped my ribs, then dabbed some salve on my arms and face and told me in sign language that I wouldn't die.†   (source)
  • He bellowed when Mother tried to apply the salve.†   (source)
  • The good news was a salve for a difficult summer.†   (source)
  • It was smeared with something waxy, like the gardener's salve her mother used to keep her paint —and turpentine-abused hands soft.†   (source)
  • He was given cortisone salve for the rash from the stinging nettles on his neck and hands.†   (source)
  • Yueh watched Paul work the page adjustment, thought: I salve my own conscience.†   (source)
  • 'Well, I'll call her back in the morning, then,' Charity said, hoping to close the conversation and applying some salve to her conscience at the same time.†   (source)
  • They had forgotten that their faces were white with starch and that their lips were painted with a chocolate-colored salve and that their clothes were not appropriate to the time of day or the age.†   (source)
  • Quickly treated with ice, salves, medicine.†   (source)
  • The magus looked over his shoulder and then sent the elder Useless up to his room to get a relief kit with bandages and little pots of salve in it.†   (source)
  • Her hands are large and rough, and when she rubs the Vicks salve on my chest, I am rigid with pain.†   (source)
  • Why, I'm kept so busy I can hardly-till the orders for noise pills, racket lotion, clamor salve, and hubbub tonic.†   (source)
  • As Grace's hands, slick with salve, roamed his body, his fingers had worked through the ice encrusted in Cassie's thick hair.†   (source)
  • Come to the infirmary when we get back to school and I'll give you some salve that will lessen the sting from your wounds:' She patted his cheek and he blushed bright red.†   (source)
  • He wished Gage had let him put some salve on his back.†   (source)
  • This was an extraordinary feat, considering how peer pressure at Ballou was backed up by violence and the almost irresistible urge for teenagers to salve deep despair with sex, drugs, and music.†   (source)
  • The smell of the salve stings my nostrils, and I wrinkle my nose.†   (source)
  • The response was so overwhelmingly positive that it salved the wounds of the death threats he'd received soon after 9/11.†   (source)
  • I had been at my father's croft when Anys had come with a salve for the sticky-eye, which all the young ones were catching at the time.†   (source)
  • He was suspended by a system of silken nets and pulleys, blinking stoically while the healer applied some salve.†   (source)
  • Money went for the antifungal salve, for antacids to lessen the chronic churning in his intestines, for the food he could stomach, for his dictionaries, for subway fare.†   (source)
  • Across the backstretch, other trainers began to mix up homemade liniments, trying to brew what they called Smith's "magic salves.†   (source)
  • We took the fine saddlebags off the horse and filled them with salves and herbs, blue grass for washing my hair, extra sweaters, dried peaches.†   (source)
  • Now I was tempted to tell my father that Jack Rose was probably using his money to salve a bad conscience.†   (source)
  • This new variety, developed by her father's alchemist, consisted of two separate applications: a clear thin salve, then a white morst powder that contained ground herbs, effectively minimizing the flaking.†   (source)
  • He had delivered that appeal both as an honest warning and a salve for what conscience remained to a barely-thinking, barely-feeling robot avenger.†   (source)
  • She rushes me to the kitchen, where Brigid keeps the gauze and salve.†   (source)
  • Perfectly respectable men and women, in a moment of amazing distress, found a salve for their woes by falling to their knees and quenching their thirst with alcohol flowing in the gutter.†   (source)
  • The fluid chords of "Amazing Grace" poured downthe hallways and crowded ' against portraits of white-collared men who had spent much of their lives absorbing punishing confessions and doling out reams of Hail Marys as spiritual salve.†   (source)
  • He shook a bottle of yellow emulsion labeled Hall's Cream Salve and poured it into the deep cuts.†   (source)
  • I wondered if the world outside was so bad for us that we had to counter it among ourselves by salving one another with kindness.†   (source)
  • At least, at times it became a compulsion, and one might as well salve one's notions of duty and free will by using the pleasanter term.†   (source)
  • Then he sat Nick down in the kitchen to put salve on the boy's sore wrists and ankles, and to wash his feet—bluewhite from the dirty, cold seepage in the cellar—and wrap them in hot towels.†   (source)
  • First my nose burned cold, as with Vick's salve, then it felt numb, and presently it began to clear.†   (source)
  • A white triangle of salve-Maria's Harry had tucked that into her suitcase-was laid over her nose; the rest of her face still carried a carnation glow.†   (source)
  • Between that and the magic salve Grover used, my shoulder felt better within a couple of minutes.   (source)
    salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin as a medicine
  • Whenever he called, I always seemed to be needed somewhere to change a bandage or make salve.   (source)
    salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
  • Mother dressed the leg in mullein and comfrey salve, her own recipe.   (source)
  • Mother smeared the salve over Dad's upper body twice a day.   (source)
  • I know they went through seventeen gallons of salve in the first two weeks, and that Mother was ordering gauze in bulk.   (source)
  • Still, I wondered whether skin grafts could have achieved what Mother had with her comfrey and lobelia salve.   (source)
  • Then a memory surfaces—of Dad, that night in the kitchen, wincing as Mother slathers salve on his hands, which are red and blistering—and I know what he must have done.   (source)
  • The dead skin was gently cut away and he was slathered in salve—the same salve Mother had used on Luke's leg years before—from his waist to the tip of his head, then bandaged.   (source)
  • The women who worked for her stopped concocting tinctures and bottling oils and instead made vats of salve—a new recipe, of comfrey, lobelia and plantain, that Mother had concocted specifically for my father.   (source)
  • I might have told him everything right then: that my family didn't believe in modern medicine; that we were treating the burn at home with salves and homeopathy; that it had been terrifying, worse than terrifying; that for as long as I lived I would never forget the smell of charred flesh.   (source)
    salves = creams or liquids put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
  • He held up the head while Billy swabbed out the wound with weak carbolic acid salve.   (source)
    salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
  • I go ahead and eat the food, take the pills, rub the salve on my skin.†   (source)
  • I have just finished applying more healing salve when I hear a shriek of laughter.†   (source)
  • There's some salve and nectar in that pack.†   (source)
  • Later she'd cried, of course, the way a person cries when a salve is finally applied to a burn.†   (source)
  • The first salve was something that was supposed to make hair grow.†   (source)
  • I told Peewee about the salve that Walowick had found and he wanted to go get some.†   (source)
  • Peewee and I found the hut with the salves and went inside.†   (source)
  • We tried to work out what all the salves were for.†   (source)
  • It was indeed filled with a dark waxy salve that smelled sharply herbal, like crushed bay leaves.†   (source)
  • I brought plenty of food and blankets, plus some of Gertrude's salves in case you injure yourself.†   (source)
  • He gave me a salve to take with me when we ride.†   (source)
  • The memories soothed her like a warm salve.†   (source)
  • She had asked, when she was still able to speak, for a comfrey salve on her wounded face.†   (source)
  • They put the graphite salve on his temples.†   (source)
  • When I went in, I found a healing salve and a mug of pain-numbing tea.†   (source)
  • The salve you made for us is about gone.†   (source)
  • She left the room, returning after a few minutes with more salve and a roll of bandages.†   (source)
  • She stopped once to rest and drink and spread more salve over Evan's burns.†   (source)
  • Rather, come with me and let me lay a salve upon your wounds!†   (source)
  • I'll get that salve to you in the morning.†   (source)
  • Can smell the graphite salve, like the smell in a garage.†   (source)
  • Are you using twin-thistle in this salve?†   (source)
  • George was still bent over, gasping from the blow of that salve in his belly.†   (source)
  • Then dress them, as you just saw me do it, with the salve.†   (source)
  • "Did you miss me, Evan?" she murmured, fingertips slick with salve sliding over his skin.†   (source)
  • Anna, kindly pack some oatcakes and some of your salves and tonics.†   (source)
  • The graphite salve has iron filings in it, temples scratching.†   (source)
  • She picked up one of his hands in both of hers and turned it over and salved his knuckles.†   (source)
  • My shoulder throbbed a bit, but the whisky helped, and the salve which Bleys had supplied.†   (source)
  • I figure that Stars giving me that salve to open up my nose saved my life.†   (source)
  • He saturated a handkerchief with the salve and wrapped the hand.†   (source)
  • And underarm deodorant—what a ghastly idea that I should need enchanted salve to keep my armpits from producing stench!†   (source)
  • Even in her expert hands, it takes a long time to clean the wounds, arrange what shredded skin can be saved, apply a salve and a light bandage.†   (source)
  • Soon creditors began appearing at the pharmacy demanding repayment of mortgages secured by the store's furnishings and its stock of salves and ointments and other goods.†   (source)
  • When Angelika set the food in front of me, her eyes went to the fresh scar on my face, rinsed clean of salve and patted dry.†   (source)
  • Bast mixed the salve and smeared the foul-smelling concoction onto the scribe's shoulder before wrapping a bandage around it.†   (source)
  • Maestor Aemon will give you a salve.†   (source)
  • Caterpillars one after another I laid on my tongue, their char crisp bristle taste a sweet momentary salve to a body aching for protein.†   (source)
  • I notice the vials of healing salve and pain medicine on the bedside table and shove them in my pocket, just in case we do manage to escape.†   (source)
  • In spite of poetry and beautiful clothes, such people were surely not fully human—were primitive; that's a word the Portuguese must have used, to salve their conscience for what was to come.†   (source)
  • He cleansed and salved Epi's sutures every morning, and held warm compresses in place until they had cooled in his hands, leaving for school with his fingers stained brown from antiseptic.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Connor looked glum because his mangled scalp was covered in so much medicinal salve his head looked like it had been coughed up by a cat.†   (source)
  • Momma used to rub a salve of bear fat and mint on us as winter approached so our skin would not dry and crack.†   (source)
  • It's an earlier version of that salve they put on your shoulder—it accelerates the growth of new cells.†   (source)
  • I built up the fire in the hearth, set my shoes and damp stockings to dry in front of it, and rubbed a calendula salve on my blisters.†   (source)
  • It is tender where Eric's gun struck me—I will have to put healing salve on it so it doesn't bruise.†   (source)
  • An Amity nurse gives me a salve—developed by Erudite to speed healing—to put on my shoulder, and then escorts Peter to the hospital ward to mend his arm.†   (source)
  • "No-no," the old woman took the salve from me, took some of it on two bony fingers, and started rubbing it in my hair.†   (source)
  • Peewee wanted me to put some of the salve he had bought from the old woman on them but I said no. I remembered how his face had broken out.†   (source)
  • I took a bottle of salve, put some on my finger — the smell of it was awful — and put it near my mouth.†   (source)
  • It's some kind of salve," he said.†   (source)
  • Pycelle's chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls.†   (source)
  • He said that nothing could be done until the disease had run its course, and gave me a pot of salve to soothe her itching.†   (source)
  • On the bottom shelf behind a row of salves in squat clay jars he found a vial of indigo glass, no larger than his little finger.†   (source)
  • She put salve on his face.†   (source)
  • When they'd left Castle Black, Brown Bernarr had been carrying bags of Myrish fire, mustard salve, ground garlic, tansy, poppy, kingscopper, and other healing herbs.†   (source)
  • They had visitors, those who came for charms, for salves, who sought answers to questions, who hoped for love or fortune.†   (source)
  • After a minute, Glumra straightened out of her hunched position, took a deep breath, and then quietly and calmly washed the raw end of her finger with brandy, smeared it with a yellow salve, and bandaged the wound.†   (source)
  • A cozy fire burned in a hearth of polished river stones by which a trio of Moomenhovens sat, plump in white aprons with dishtowels spread across their laps while they mixed ingredients for salves and ointments that were carefully smoothed into jars.†   (source)
  • Sukeena tolerates these efforts but bids me to prepare her own herbal treatments, which include the burning of ropelike grasses, teas and salves made from a variety of herbs she keeps in a rosewood chest in her changing room.†   (source)
  • Dressed in Myrcella's bedrobe with the maester's salve smeared across her face ...she might even have fooled me, in a dim light.†   (source)
  • He knows he's showing off, but it feels wonderful, a cooling salve to ease his fear of being revealed as academically unworthy.†   (source)
  • Just when I think I will tip over into a scream, she scoops out a little of the salve on her forefinger and puts it in my mouth, telling me to swallow.†   (source)
  • I contented myself with wiggling and whimpering a little as he opened each of the infected spots, cleaned the entire sore, and rubbed salve onto it.†   (source)
  • He cleaned and healed the wound, applied the salve that sealed the incision closed behind the soul, and then brushed the scar-softening powder across the line left on her neck.†   (source)
  • It's a salve," he said.†   (source)
  • But those who could hear the insides of words heard that we were selling a miracle salve made from boiled children.†   (source)
  • It coated my chest, along with the salve, and when the flannel came undone in my sleep, the clear, sharp curves of air outlined its presence on my throat.†   (source)
  • He bid her lie facedown on the mattress while he spread a salve across the angry red welts that covered the backs of her legs.†   (source)
  • Pol worked on my wrists, pulling the stained bandages off, cleaning the blisters, and rubbing more salve into them.†   (source)
  • When I'm free of the cuffs, he offers me a salve for my chafed wrists and then disappears into the back room.†   (source)
  • After he had rinsed it with the soapy water, he rubbed a little salve on top of the scabs on the two sores, one above each of the bones in my wrist.†   (source)
  • Pol went over to his pack to pull out the relief kit and brought back some bandages and salve to rub on my sore hands and a little paper packet of dried berries.†   (source)
  • Had Anys not just brought us a salve for the sticky-eye that would soothe the children's pains far quicker than Aphra or I had means to do it?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • I tried to make my fingers light as butterflies upon the baby as I washed his scrapes and dressed them with my salve.†   (source)
  • Hour by hour, as the good effects of the draught and the salve wore off, the fever rose again, and by afternoon he had become delirious.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She had also brought a cooling salve, fragrant of mint, and she asked me if she might apply it to the child to lower his fever.†   (source)
  • I made the salve as quickly as I could.†   (source)
  • He tried to find sweet words to salve our sorrows, and their music mingled with the tinkling of the nearby brook.†   (source)
  • "Here," I said, holding out the salve.†   (source)
  • I wrapped up the poor child in my cloak and made them carry him home, where I said I would send one of you directly with a salve for his scrapes.†   (source)
  • When I judged the plant had given up its virtue I plunged my hands into the silky pulp and kneaded in a piece of beeswax until I had a drawing salve to smooth on angry Plague sores.†   (source)
  • Inside Aphra's croft we heated water and tried to bathe her, prising the manure from under her fingernails and salving her weeping sores.†   (source)
  • When Compline was finished, they turned out most of the lights and chanted the solemn Salve Regina so beautifully, so tenderly, we felt the crusts of our lives fall away and we rested in the deep hush of eternity.†   (source)
  • The room reeked of Hall's Cream Salve.†   (source)
  • She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house—paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Hall's Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia.†   (source)
  • No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform.†   (source)
  • broken, salves spattered on the walls, instruments strewn everywhere.†   (source)
  • He opened the bag again, put cooling salve on the burn and bandaged it neatly.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Dalton, a decent man, tried to salve his feelings by giving money.†   (source)
  • He bit his arm and moaned, "Oh mama mia, mama Mia," then, "Dio te salve, Maria.†   (source)
  • So, the profits you take from the Thomas family in rents, you give back to them to ease the pain of their gouged lives and to salve the ache of your own conscience?†   (source)
  • It was not my intention to hurt or humiliate her; the irony of it was that the plan I conceived had as its purpose the salving of Granny's frustrated feelings toward me.†   (source)
  • ....If I could save the Union without freeing any salve, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it.†   (source)
  • Pictures came off the walls, the monkeys with scarlet nose holes, the runner from Tashkent, egg cups, salves and medicines, her eiderdown from the closet shelf.†   (source)
  • All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.†   (source)
  • At 18 Valley Street, the red shack-porch, slime-scummed with a greasy salve of yellow negroid mud, quaked rottenly.†   (source)
  • Dio te salve, Maria.†   (source)
  • I used to tell myself that I would be a great explorer, and cross the Chorasmian Waste: or I would be a great king, like Alexander or St. Louis: or a great healer: I would find out a balsam which cured wounds and give it away free: perhaps I would be a saint, and salve wounds just by touching them, or I would find something important—a relic of the True Cross, or the Holy Grail, or something like that.†   (source)
  • It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different,and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness.†   (source)
  • This partly salved her conscience but as she drove down the road the dull thin faces of the convicts would keep coming back into her mind.†   (source)
  • He lashed out with his hind feet and tried to rear, but Jody held his head down while Billy mopped the new wound with carbolic salve.†   (source)
  • Unless we grasp this problem in the light of this new reality, we cannot do more than salve our feelings of guilt and rage with more murder when a man, living under such conditions, commits an act which we call a crime.†   (source)
  • Without salve, he could not, he though, were the sore badge of his dishonor through life.†   (source)
  • The North—her co-partner in guilt—cannot salve her conscience by plastering it with gold.†   (source)
  • Carrie accepted this as basis for hope-it was a sort of salve to her conscience, a pleasant way out.†   (source)
  • A table was now spread with phials, boxes of salve, and divers surgical instruments.†   (source)
  • The procurator cured his hurt with a golden salve.†   (source)
  • A mustang with a lame leg claimed his serious attention; a sick sheep gave him an anxious look; a steer with a gored skin sent him running for a bucket of salve.†   (source)
  • To salve her own conscience more than anything else, she at once wrote her mother and her sister a very plausible version of why she had been compelled to leave the Newtons.†   (source)
  • And Jude told him the names and addresses of the cottagers who were willing to test the virtues of the world-renowned pills and salve.†   (source)
  • As her toilet progressed, every movement that she made brought Swann nearer to the moment when he would have to part from her, when she would fly off with irresistible force; and when at length she was ready, and, Plunging into her mirror a last glance strained and brightened by her anxiety to look well, smeared a little salve on her lips, fixed a stray loci of hair over her brow, and called for her cloak of sky-blue silk with golden tassels, Swann would be looking so wretched that she would be unable to restrain a gesture of impatience as she flung at him: "So that is how you thank me for keeping you here till the last minute!†   (source)
  • "I have brought you some salve, but how to put it on in your present nervous state becomes a problem," he continued, after a pause.†   (source)
  • He was not going up there to be salved and bandaged, but to engage in the fray, and with serious intent.†   (source)
  • Jude had one day seen him selling a pot of coloured lard to an old woman as a certain cure for a bad leg, the woman arranging to pay a guinea, in instalments of a shilling a fortnight, for the precious salve, which, according to the physician, could only be obtained from a particular animal which grazed on Mount Sinai, and was to be captured only at great risk to life and limb.†   (source)
  • For, although he was constantly seeking to salve his conscience with the thought that at the last moment he had not had the courage to strike Roberta, nevertheless this other story was so terribly difficult for him to present and defend—a fact which both Belknap and Jephson realized and which caused the latter to appear most frequently at Clyde's cell door with the greeting: "Well, how's tricks to-day?"†   (source)
  • But, dear neighbour, that is not a very effective salve for the wound caused by the 'tyranny of a majority' in our society; because all work that is done is either beneficial or hurtful to every member of society.†   (source)
  • The filaments of the leaves make capital thread, while the leaves themselves, bruised, form an invaluable salve.†   (source)
  • One Dowager, SHE calls it lip-salve.†   (source)
  • They crimped and curled her hair, they polished her neck and arms with some fragrant powder, touched her lips with coralline salve to make them redder, and Hortense would have added 'a soupcon of rouge', if Meg had not rebelled.†   (source)
  • So the hermit searched all his wounds and gave him good salves; so the king was there three days, and then were his wounds well amended that he might ride and go, and so departed.†   (source)
  • And comparing himself to the pilot who suffers shipwreck by night, "~Salve~," he added piously, "~salve, maris stella~!"†   (source)
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