Unguent

Now, Sharpe, the fly in our unguent is the fact these royal guards are all Irish. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)

Sure, someone recently offered to send me some kind of unguent to evaluate, but I declined. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground. ❋ Unknown (1917)

This powerful emmenagogue was a kind of unguent composed of several drugs, such as saffron, myrrh, etc., compounded with virgin honey. ❋ Unknown (1827)

I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me … ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pearl Hand traded a couple of pieces of shell for a pot of unguent made from spruce needles, boiled pine needles, and red root. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)

I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent. ❋ Andrew Edwards (2012)

The unguent softened the hard ridges of the scar, allowed it to become more pliable, and relieved him from the agony of just moving. ❋ Karen Hawkins (2010)

He carried no unguent, so apparently, I had carried that point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They never considered getting an unguent for those itchy fingers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They led Soldier's Boy from the steam hut, still swathed in the hot wraps that held the herbal unguent against his skin. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

My feet were massaged and anointed, the many small scratches and abrasions on my calves were tended, and then two young women smoothed a buttery unguent onto them. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

His movements were graceful and controlled; the unguent seemed to have loosened and oiled his muscles. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

He was absent awhile, and presently returned with an unguent as it were the fat of beef, yellow as gold and sweet of savour. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The role of sports as an emotional unguent comes into sharp focus in dark times such as these. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thereat the rest followed suit, got up, and began kindling fire and oiling their bodies, for there was a scented unguent to be found there in abundance, which they used instead of oil. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They then perfumed the wine-mixing vessel with the same unguent and poured some of the melted liquid into the lamps. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After he pulled his damp [birches] from his sweaty (__X__) he spread an unguent to soothe the chafing. [Aahh]! Door to door sales of the unguent advertised in the back of "BoysLife" proved [dismal]; the young sales lad said, "It doesn't sell like 'hotcakes' at all; it sells like mud!' ❋ Bixterboy (2010)