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Example sentences for "salve"

Lexicographically close words:
salvaging; salvarsan; salvashun; salvation; salvations; salved; salver; salvers; salves; salving
  1. Uncle Jack was not much of a scholar, but he knew enough Latin to answer, "Salve tantundem, mi frater.

  2. And he laughed as though to salve his words.

  3. The latter was in his surplice, and chanted a 'Veni Creator, Salve Regina, and Tantum ergo'.

  4. It's a shame you have all the beds to do, Rosemary," said Winnie, coming up for a salve from the medicine closet in the bathroom and discovering Rosemary wearily putting the bedrooms to rights.

  5. You ought to make Sarah do her part," went on Winnie, spreading salve on a piece of gauze and binding it around her finger.

  6. The believer's knowledge is ever increasing; the eye-salve of faith clears his spiritual vision.

  7. Thou wert wont to tell others that complained of distress, that the sweetest salve for misery was patience, and the only medicine for want that precious implaister of content.

  8. The wisest counsellors are my deep discontents, and I hate that which should salve my harm, like the patient which stung with the Tarantula loathes music, and yet the disease incurable but by melody.

  9. As she came on the plains she might espy where Rosader and Saladyne sate with Aliena under the shade; which sight was a salve to her grief, and such a cordial unto her heart, that she tripped alongst the lawns full of joy.

  10. Which her friends perceived and sorrowed at, but salve it they could not.

  11. Thus in contemplation I salve my sorrows, with applying the perfection of every object to the excellence of her qualities.

  12. But wishing is little worth in such extremes, and therefore was she forced to pine in her malady, without any salve for her sorrows.

  13. A piece of wood nicely rounded, or a penholder if the animal be small, answers very well to introduce the salve into the gut; and of course it should be done with every consideration, for the pain it will at first produce.

  14. Care should be taken that the dressing, of whatever nature it may be, reaches and is expended upon the skin, as simply anointing the dog or smearing the salve upon the hair is of no earthly use.

  15. I will endure the smart as best I may, my lord, until a more convenient season, when I will salve it well.

  16. I'll salve it with ten pieces of eight from the captain's own share, the next prize we take.

  17. He then leads Virgil and Dante to a hollow, where, resting upon fragrant flowers, they prepare to spend the night, with a company of spirits who chant "Salve Regina.

  18. Then apply carbolic salve spread on a linen rag, which is a good dressing for the boil, both before and after it breaks.

  19. She mounted two flights more, and reached the door of the attic room, opened it and went in, shutting it behind her.

  20. And when she fell asleep, beneath the soft white blanket, she dreamed all night of this magnificent personage, and talked to him in Hindustani, and made salaams to him.

  21. After they have boiled about three hours, a little of the salve may be taken out, and put into cold water.

  22. You monks and friars of the cowl-pated and hood-polled fraternity, have you no remedy nor salve against this malady of graffing horns in heads?

  23. Bot Nestor, which was old and hor, The salve sih tofore the sor, As he that was of conseil wys: So that anon be his avis Ther was a prive conseil nome.

  24. For yet was nevere such covine, That couthe ordeine a medicine 30 To thing which god in lawe of kinde Hath set, for ther may noman finde The rihte salve of such a Sor.

  25. He rubbed a little of the salve on the end of the dog, and a noo tail grow'd on next mornin'!

  26. True, I assure ye, as was proved by the fact that he afterwards rubbed a little of the salve on the end of the tail, and a noo dog growed on it in less than a week!

  27. It's a salve for growin' on lost limbs," said Bill.

  28. By the way, I would advise you to try a little of that wonderful salve invented by a Yankee for such cases.

  29. Tim spoke in soothing conciliation, as if he worked to salve over the old hurts of injustice, or as if he dealt with the mishap of a child to whom words were more comforting than balm.

  30. Not that," he hastened to assure her, putting out his hand as if to add the comfort of his touch to the salve of his words.

  31. Her hands touched the skin of his face and neck, streaking him with the burning salve that sent the old magic into his blood with the power before which fades all that is good.

  32. Lycanthropy, or the power to change themselves into wolves, was everywhere believed in, and the ability to transform themselves into cats by rubbing their bodies with a special salve or ointment provided by Satan himself, found equal credence.

  33. Probably it's his brother who's delayed him," said Olive, looking for an explanation which would salve her amour propre.

  34. Now what Pliny affirmeth of the Orix, that it seemeth to adore this Star, and taketh notice thereof by voice and sternutation; until we be better assured of its verity, we shall not salve the sympathy.

  35. Some have therefore forsaken this refuge of the Sun, and to salve the effect have recurred unto the influence of the Stars, making their activities National, and appropriating their Powers unto particular regions.

  36. Now the ground of this ancient custom was probably the opinion the ancients held of sternutation, which they generally conceived, to be a good sign or a bad, and so upon this motion accordingly used, a Salve or I-I mua?

  37. A method of many Writers, which much depreciates the esteem and value of miracles; that is, therewith to salve not only real verities, but also nonexistencies.

  38. Nor will the wider and more Western term of Longitude, from whence the Moderns begin their commensuration, sufficiently salve the difference.

  39. The Archbishop of Canterbury and some of the rest, on scruple of conscience and to salve the oaths they had taken, entered their protests and hung off, especially the Archbishop, who had not all this while so much as appeared out of Lambeth.

  40. And you might have had a heap of trouble with that same hurt, Giraffe, if you didn't let me put some salve on.

  41. What with stone bruises, snake bites, and getting caught in bear traps, I'm making a big hole in the stock of salve and liniment I fetched along.

  42. And there's no need of it when I've got liniment and salve and linen in my haversack, for just such uses.

  43. These gentlewomen of good skill are[414] come to make you sound, They know which way to salve your sore, and how to cure your wound.

  44. What salve may serve to salve my sore, or to redress my pain?

  45. O, salve my sore, or sle me quite, by saying yea or no!

  46. We mention the cochineal to colour the salve, it being usual to make lip salve of a pale rose colour, but we should consider it far more healing in its effects without it.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; allay; alleviate; anodyne; anoint; appease; assuage; balm; balsam; benumb; bonus; bounty; bribe; consideration; cream; cushion; daub; deaden; demulcent; diminish; dope; dose; dress; drug; dull; ease; emollient; fee; foment; gratuity; gravy; grease; honorarium; inducement; lanolin; lard; largess; lay; lenitive; lessen; liberality; lotion; lubricate; lull; mitigate; moderator; mollify; numb; oil; ointment; pad; palliate; palliative; peacemaker; perquisite; pomade; poultice; premium; reduce; relieve; salvage; salve; slacken; slake; slick; smear; soften; soothe; stabilizer; subdue; sweetener; tip; unction; unguent; wax