All 15 Uses
salve
in
Year of Wonders
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- 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.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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?†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- She had asked, when she was still able to speak, for a comfrey salve on her wounded face.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- He tried to find sweet words to salve our sorrows, and their music mingled with the tinkling of the nearby brook.†
Chpt 11
- 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.†
Chpt 12
- I made the salve as quickly as I could.†
Chpt 12
- I tried to make my fingers light as butterflies upon the baby as I washed his scrapes and dressed them with my salve.†
Chpt 12
- "Here," I said, holding out the salve.†
Chpt 12
- Then dress them, as you just saw me do it, with the salve.†
Chpt 12
- Rather, come with me and let me lay a salve upon your wounds!†
Chpt 12
- Anna, kindly pack some oatcakes and some of your salves and tonics.†
Chpt 12
- Inside Aphra's croft we heated water and tried to bathe her, prising the manure from under her fingernails and salving her weeping sores.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)