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Example sentences for "orris root"

  • As cosmetics, orris root, cassia, cinnamon, and sandal wood are frequently chewed to scent the breath.

  • The faint perfume of it (just recently she had acquired a fresh stock of orris root) was like a breath from some flower-filled garden--such a garden as he had read about in The Story of Aladdin.

  • Up from them lifted a fragrance that rivaled even that of orris root.

  • Oil of orris root is one of the oils which keep for years without suffering injury.

  • Oil of orris root serves as a substitute and for strengthening the natural odor of violets.

  • The powder of orris root is very extensively used in the manufacture of sachet powders, tooth-powder, &c.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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