The ashes of the head of a hare is a useful dentifrice; and if spikenard be added, it will lessen the bad smell of the mouth.
Two excellent anti-odontalgic remedies to be introduced into carious hollows would be roasted earth-worms and spikenard ointment mixed with the crushed eggs of spiders.
To restore to blackened teeth their whiteness, Galen advises them to be rubbed with special medicaments, one of which is made up of dried figs, burnt and pounded, with spikenard and honey.
Then came the spouses of the grandees with the Queen, who showered them with rice- powder mixed with amber and musk, and poured on their heads spikenard and curcuma (turmeric).
He perceived upon his body the odor of spikenard and saw that he bore certain marks.
The following list shows the fruits and seeds identified and the number of stomachs in which found: False spikenard (Smilacina racemosa) 1 Greenbrier berries (Smilax sp.
Go rather and perfume thyself With spikenard on the Alm, It might not do thee any harm.
He then sometimes sings the little song: "When I uproot the spikenard here, That grows upon the Alm, I like to think of the women-folk.
I do not yet know if it be true that spikenard travels from here over to Turkey.
Spikenard is quite abundant in moist rich, uncleared ground, flowering in May and June, from Me.
While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.
Spikenard blossoms shaking, Perfume all the air, And in bud and flower breaking, Stands my garden fair.
O West, how fragrant breathes thy gentle air, Spikenard and aloes on thy pinions glide.
Crocus andspikenard blossom on my lawn, The brier fades, the thistle is withdrawn.
On this account the words of the Spouse of the Canticles are applied to her: Dum esset Rex in accubitu suo nardus mea dedit odorem suum--'While the King was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
The plant on which the spikenard grows does not grow up high like the cedars of Lebanon.
He dineth with His prisoner, and the King's spikenardcasteth a smell.
A King dineth with me, and His spikenard casteth a sweet smell.
The King dineth with His prisoner, and His spikenard casteth a smell.
It pleaseth my Well-beloved to dine with a poor prisoner, and the King's spikenard casteth a fragrant smell.
A King feasteth me, and His spikenard casteth a sweet smell.
My dear brother, I cannot but speak what I have felt; seeing my Lord Jesus hath broken a box of spikenard upon the head of His poor prisoner, and it is hard to hide a sweet smell.
Spitzbergen and Melville Island), and the strong-scented spikenard (Nardostachys).
Onosma which yields a purple dye, Orchis, and species of Androsace; while the slopes were clothed with the spikenard and purple Pedicularis, and the moist grounds with yellow cowslip and long grass.
The Island hath great abundance of treasure, with costly spices, lign-aloes and spikenard and many others that never come into our parts.
All I can say is, that, if this root was the spikenard of the Roman ladies, their lovers must have had a very different taste from the youth of modern Europe.
What I procured at the shops in Nathpur, and recently imported from the Alps, was the species of Valerian described by Dr Roxburgh in the Asiatick Researches, and supposed by Sir William Jones to be the spikenard of the ancients.
The American spikenard occurs in similar situations as nudicaulis, but its range extends somewhat farther South, Georgia being given as the Southern limit.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Matthew says she had "an alabaster cruse of precious ointment," which Mark explains was "spikenard very costly.
I saw bathed in spikenard what I have since seen bathed in blood.
Pour spikenard on his hair, and wind soft rolls of linen round his limbs!
The river-horses in the slime trumpeted when they saw him come Odorous with Syrian galbanum and smeared with spikenard and with thyme.
Her broken alabaster and its poured-out spikenard are her unspoken ode to the Redeemer, her pre-dated homage to the Crucified.
But if the spices of the women are the spikenard and myrrh of a mingled love and grief, they are at the same time a tacit admission of their error.
In verses 12-14 the bride responds:-- While the King sat at His table My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spikenard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
