He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Now, the repetition of "my soul" sounded to me exactly like mice-hole, and I suggested the propriety of substituting a rat-hole, at which several became wrathy, and proposed a mustard-plaster for my head. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)
A moment later my uncle was laid, still unconscious, upon his bed, and Jeanne and Madeleine were preparing a mustard-plaster together, in perfect harmony. ❋ Various (N/A)
"In England, where there's no sun, there's plenty of shade -- and here, where the sun is like a mustard-plaster on one's back, the leaves are all set edgewise on purpose that they shan't cast any shadow!" ❋ Various (N/A)
Soon the cramped position began to tell, for they were jammed together, and Tippoo felt like a mustard-plaster upon Alec's back. ❋ Various (N/A)
On the other hand, the need of carrying out this work at any cost acted like a mustard-plaster, and helped us to bear up through the first most difficult weeks. ❋ Trotsky, Leon (1930)
The idea of a pavement in a one-horse town composed of two gin-mills, a blacksmith shop, and that mustard-plaster of a newspaper, the Daily Hurrah! ❋ Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (1922)
At noon, when he seemed no better, I made a mild mustard-plaster and put it on the upper part of his little chest. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
Poppsy was not in the least put out when she watched me preparing a mustard-plaster for the invalid. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
His lung is congested, and it may be pneumonia, but I think my mustard-plaster saved the day. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
I gave him an emetic and put a mustard-plaster on him. ❋ Unknown (1911)
"How about a mustard-plaster?" suggested Mons, with a defiant glance at the bailiff. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
'Would it surprise you very much to know that you show up in this dark place like a mustard-plaster on a sack of coals?' ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
When I got home I undressed and rubbed myself down with whisky, put my feet in hot water and a mustard-plaster on my chest, had a basin of gruel and a glass of hot brandy-and-water, tallowed my nose, and went to bed. ❋ Unknown (1893)
She has been over five times to-day, and this evening sat by me a long time, holding my hand and smoothing my forehead, and urging me to try a cream poultice -- a mustard-plaster -- a bowl of gruel -- a broiled chicken. ❋ James Lane Allen (1887)
"I suppose a mustard-plaster on the back of her neck --" ❋ Unknown (1884)
The idea of a pavement in a one-horse town composed of two gin-mills, a blacksmith-shop, and that mustard-plaster of a newspaper, the _Daily Hurrah_! ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
