The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, or a febrifuge, and theamulet possessed several other properties as a medical talisman.
This amulet is a stone of a deep red colour and triangular shape, in size about half-an-inch on each side, and is set in a silver coin.
I will not consent," he said, "to grant your son's liberty unless the amulet be added to the ransom.
Some interesting information respecting this amulet appears in an account of the Sack and Siege of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1644.
She thought it was an amulet against witchcraft; but Michal told her that it was only a talisman against the plague, nothing more.
The wisdom of her father, the amulet of her mother, had become utterly worthless in her eyes.
The amulet fastened round her neck she held in high honor, not because it was a febrifuge, but because it was the solitary memento of her mother which she possessed.
May the amulet defend you on the way from vultures and hawks, may it preserve my father from ever feeling such heavy woe as I am feeling here.
This amulet the learned man had worn, fastened by a silken cord round his neck, night and day for years.
Next morning, pretty Michal had a blue mark under one eye and a wheal on her forehead, and the precious amulet, the amulet she had received from her father as a bridal gift, was no longer round her neck.
With that, she took the amulet and fastened it beneath the dove's wings with the ribbon, in such a way as to show that it had not been unloosed but torn from her neck.
But not I," remarked Edward, detaching an amuletfrom his own chain.
Hast thou not seen, honored tribune, some statuette, some offering, some token, some amulet on Pomponia or thy divine Lygia?
With her free hand she held out to me the bag of brocaded silk that contained her amulet or talisman.
I handed the amulet bag to another lady-in-waiting, and withdrew to my private rooms.
I will repeat my remark: you have in your possession a certain gold amulet in the form, I believe, of a cat.
Once tied round the neck, this amulet is never to be taken off, on peril of sickness and sudden death.
Etruria as in Egypt the bug amulet or scarabeus was as popular as the Eye of Horus.
The whole land of Egypt was known among other designations as "the land of the Eye," and by the Egyptians as also by the Etrurians, the symbolic blue Eye of Horus was carried constantly as an amulet against bad luck.
Thou tramplest on the dead, scornful and cruel, Horror coils like an amulet round thine arms, Crime on thy superb bosom is a jewel That dances amorously among its charms.
LXIX The strength of the amulet demonstrated by philosophy.
Surely this is not like my husband; yet who can it be that dares pollute by the pressure of his hand my child, whose amulet should protect him from a stranger's touch?
I have just heard that Sarva-damana's amulet has retained its form, though a stranger raised it from the ground.
Seeing how difficult he proved to strangle, they must have cursed that amulet of his.
Accepting the amulet at its legendary value, the conspirators had resolved that he must be strangled.
It was there next morning, but my ivory amulet I could not find; it was gone, and with it, I knew, my salvation.
As a specimen of a spell that was used in connection with anamulet may be quoted Chapter 156.
The amulet was the tet, which represented a portion of the body of Isis.
The man had long wished to have a son, but as none was born to him, he gave his great dog the amulet which his son should have had.
This amulet was a knot of hard wood, and the dog was thus made hard to resist the coming of death.
To mistake co-existent phenomena for cause and effect: as when a man, wearing an amulet and escaping shipwreck, regards the amulet as the cause of his escape.
Sometimes the amulet must be fastened with seven-colored silk.
The amulet is fastened upon the head or tied around the upper-arm or worn on the breast, with a string around the neck.
The ring is believed to serve the person as an amulet against any harm which the ghost might do to him.
In India iron rings are often worn as an amulet against disease or to counteract the malignant influence of the planet Saturn.
But often a Russian amuletis merely a knotted thread.
Robert Boyle, the father of chemistry, says that he was cured of a severe ague, that the doctors could not benefit, by the application of an amuletto his wrists.
Barbillus--you false priest--is that all the good your amulet is?
Nor was it long before the elder had quite recovered herself; only the old woman who held the amulet hid her pale face in the pillows as if she were stunned, while she trembled and quaked in every limb.
She wears on her neck an amulet which, it is affirmed, will cause her to meet her parents some day, but which will lose its virtue if the young girl loses hers.
She laid one finger on her mouth and concealed the amulet in her bosom.
But the captain's gesture had revealed the mysterious amulet which she wore about her neck.
Beneath that rope glittered a tiny amulet ornamented with bits of green glass, which had been left to her no doubt, because nothing is refused to those who are about to die.
He had been able to form a judgment as to the unconquerable modesty resulting from the combined virtues of the amulet and the gypsy, and he had mathematically calculated the resistance of that chastity to the second power.
FN#65] Then he perceived anamulet sewn in the cap of the turban so he unsewed the lining and took it out; then took the trousers, in which was the purse of a thousand dinars.
Then he opened the amulet and found therein a paper in the handwriting of his brother Noureddin; and when he saw his writing, he knew it and kissed it again and again, weeping and making moan for his brother.
These ill-favoured beldames had a panacea for every disease, a charm or a potion for every disorder, a talisman or amulet against every ill.
The thread being broken, and the roller removed, the amulet is not at all to be touched with bare hands, but it ought to be taken hold on by some instrument, and buried in a place that nobody may touch it.
There is an old superstition, still extant, that children can be preserved from evil influences and infantile disorders, by having a necklace of Cloves suspended as an amulet round the neck.
The Highland women often wear a piece of its root as an amulet to guard them from the Evil Eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amulet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amulet; charm; fetish; hoodoo; mascot; phylactery; scarab; swastika; talisman; voodoo
