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Example sentences for "orris"

Lexicographically close words:
orpiment; orpine; orra; orrible; orrid; orse; orses; orspital; orta; orter
  1. Concrete orris oil, a waxy substance obtained by steam distillation of Florentine orris root.

  2. Her sleeve of fragrant stuff almost touched his shoulder and he felt appealing to him seductively a perfume of orris root and violet.

  3. He turned more wooden under the spell of the orris root and violet.

  4. Mrs. Cartwright entered her own familiar room with its known mingling of kuss-kuss, rose, and orris scent.

  5. She could feel that in every inch and ounce of him this boy was alert and conscious of her nearness, of her suppleness of body, of that faint scent of rose, kuss-kuss and orris that clung about her.

  6. Precipitated chalk four ounces, pulverized sugar two ounces, powdered myrrh one ounce, pulverized orris root one ounce.

  7. Precipitated chalk four ounces, powdered orris root eight ounces, powdered camphor one ounce; reduce camphor to fine powder moistening with very little alcohol, add other ingredients.

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

  9. A spurious sort is met with in the shops, which is coloured with litmus, and slightly scented with orris root.

  10. This is simply starch, reduced to a very fine powder, and scented with orris powder or essence of violets.

  11. From corianders, orris root, rose leaves, and calamus aromaticus, of each 4 oz.

  12. Brazil wood, cinnamon, and orris root, of each 1/2 oz.

  13. It has a mixed flavour of orris and cinnamon.

  14. Mixed with 2 or 3 times its weight of orris powder, it has been used in frictions on the tongue and gums, and an ointment made with 1 gr.

  15. Steel filings, starch powder, and knot grass, of each 1 part, Florentine orris root, 4 parts.

  16. Accompanying the above is a powder composed of prepared Chalk, Orris Root, Carbonate Magnesia, of each equal parts.

  17. The faint, sweet scent of orris root rose up from her warm skin.

  18. The oil is thickly-fluid, of a red-brown color, and has an intense, but agreeable odor very much like that of oil of orris root.

  19. A good bathing powder for this purpose is made of two and one-half drams of camphor, four ounces of orris root and sixteen ounces of starch.

  20. Begin by using orris root for your teeth, combined, of course, with the other necessary ingredients.

  21. It is best to follow the scrubbing with a gentle washing with a bath bag, for the almond meal and the orris root will give a charming, velvety appearance to the skin.

  22. Powdered orris root, one and one-fourth ounces.

  23. Add one ounce of Orris in powder to every pound of Diachylon simple.

  24. After that Orris called me to come into her room, and gave me a fourpenny piece and two pictures, so now I've got eightpence.

  25. Orris is very kind, but sometimes she thinks she ought to command, because she is the eldest.

  26. Take white bismuth, one pound; starch powder, one ounce; orris powder, one ounce.

  27. Spirits of wine, half a pint; orris root, one ounce.

  28. Macerate five ounces of fine orris root in a quart of rectified spirits, for some days, and filter.

  29. This smells like violets; and if you make little bags, fill them with orris powder, and keep them in your bureau drawers and boxes, you will be sure to have a faint flower-like fragrance about you wherever you go.

  30. The nicest sachet powder for clothing, note-paper, and other uses is pulverized orris root.

  31. The extract of tonquin, like extract of orris and extract of vanilla, is never sold pure, but is only used in the manufacture of compound perfumes.

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

  33. Though well covered with extract of orris and other matters, it is the leading ingredient in Bayley and Blew's Ess.

  34. We classify it with orris root, not that it has any odor resembling it, but because it has a like effect in use in perfumery, and because it is prepared as a tincture for obtaining its odor.

  35. It requires considerable time to drain away, and, to prevent loss, the remainder of the orris should be placed in the tincture press.

  36. Do you know the house of Orris & Tweed, auctioneers?

  37. He fished from out his overcoat, and deftly in his mouth he stuck, A friendly lump of orris root, to make his breath all right.

  38. You'll think the tram conductor was drunk, His breath was sweet as mine, Like the orris root, or a tint of mint, Or scent of a similar line.

  39. Dan's bewildered mind recalled the fact that Orris Head was a rift of red sand and soft sandstone.

  40. In a moment he found himself asking for Dan and hearing from the old woman with the whiskers, who spoke with a curtsey after every syllable, that Master Dan had been seen to go down toward the creek, the Lockjaw, under Orris Head.

  41. When they reached the shore Dan turned toward Orris Head, walking within a yard or two of the water's edge.

  42. Late as was the hour, he could hear the little sandpiper screaming at Orris Head.

  43. They were standing on the summit of Orris Head.

  44. Dan went down toward the creek known as the Lockjaw, under Orris Head.

  45. The door flew open and the prettiest little woman imaginable, all fluffy ends and scarlet flowers and orris scent, rushed toward him.

  46. Noting the odor of orris root, he said that he liked it because it recalled to him his boyhood, when his adopted mother kept orris root in her bureau drawers, and whenever they were opened the fragrance would fill the room.

  47. Footnote 19: The wars for the succession of Arragon had terminated two years previous to this, otherwise we should be at no loss to account for the business which forced Michel d’Orris to return from France.

  48. Take six pennyworth of benjamin, as much of storax, six orris roots, and a little suet; beat and bruise them all together, and mix them with the stripped herbs.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.