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Example sentences for "unguents"

Lexicographically close words:
ungs; ungual; unguarded; unguardedly; unguent; unguessable; unguessed; unguided; unguis; ungulate
  1. In her hurry to get up she had neglected to use any of the creams and unguents which she deemed necessary for the adornment of her face.

  2. On her small dressing-table were ranged a number of pots and bottles, unguents and creams.

  3. Then it was anointed with sweet smelling unguents and crowned with flowers in their season.

  4. According to a scholiast, these lecyths were used by the Athenians as vessels for holding the unguents with which the dead were to be anointed, but their use for containing perfumes is now conceded[100].

  5. And as she proceeded, her deep, finely tapering bosoms, decked with a chain of gold and adorned with celestial unguents and smeared with fragrant sandal paste, began to tremble.

  6. Therefore, worship thou thy husband, decking thyself in costly garlands and ornaments and smearing thyself with unguents and excellent perfumes.

  7. And brushed by the leaves of Saptachchada tree, besmeared with fresh red, black and white minerals, he looked as if decorated with lines of holy unguents drawn by fingers.

  8. Then the hermit searched Sir Launcelot's wound and bathed it and put unguents upon it and bound it about with bandages of linen and so Sir Launcelot was put at ease.

  9. And there came a skilful leech and searched the wounds of Sir Launcelot and spread soothing unguents upon them and bound them up with swathings of linen.

  10. Gloria finally tumbled all her clothes and unguents ingloriously out of it, declaring that she had come to live with Anthony, and making the excuse that one of her screens was rotten and admitted bugs.

  11. She stood for a moment looking after him; then she went into the bathroom among her tragic unguents and began preparations for washing her hair.

  12. With fair white linen we enfold The dear dead limbs, and richest store Of Eastern unguents duly pour Upon the body still and cold.

  13. The man of intelligence should smear his limbs with unguents made of Priyangu, sandalwood, Vilwa, Tagara, and Kesara.

  14. His body fragrant with unguents whose perfumes are as sweet as those of Soma himself, he acquires the power of transporting himself immediately to any place he likes.

  15. One should never smear unguents upon one's body without having first taken bath.

  16. Clad in white vestments, he wore white garlands, and had white unguents smeared upon his limbs.

  17. His body was smeared with fragrant unguents and he looked like one just awaking from a deep slumber.

  18. Madame,'said Eustacie, with spirit, 'he sold me unguents that greatly relieved my father last spring.

  19. Tobacco is sometimes used externally in unguents for destroying cutaneous insects, cleansing old ulcers, &c.

  20. The leaves are frequently employed in discutient and antiseptic fomentations; and have been recommended also in lotions and unguents for cutaneous eruptions, and the falling off of the hair.

  21. The inquisitor of Milan took no part in the trials of those accused of causing and spreading the terrible pestilence of 1630, by the use of unguents and powders furnished by the demon.

  22. As for the broths and unguents and powders so often described as used for flying to the aquelarres and working evil, nothing whatever could be learned.

  23. I am persuaded, that small balls of paste or bread would, if offered to them at the same time, be devoured at precisely the same rate as those prepared with unguents or drugs.

  24. It is my opinion only time and trouble thrown away, and you may depend upon this as a fact, that if fish will not take a bright clean worm, the addition of unguents will be found useless.

  25. Persius complains that the haymakers were grown so luxurious as to spoil it by mixing thick unguents with it: vi.

  26. Or simply "reeking with the wine and unguents poured over them.

  27. From this cause most of the pots and potsherds were found adhering to one another, due to the spilt unguents as well as to the blood from the flesh-offering having dried and caked them together.

  28. Near it stood rows of crystal vases and jars of Ph[oe]nician glass, containing unguents and rare perfumes, compounded of priceless ingredients after formulae known only to the body-servants of the Persian kings.

  29. And deprived of sense by lust, Kichaka became speedily engaged in embellishing his person with unguents and garlands and ornaments.

  30. Let all the Kichakas be burnt, in one blazing pyre with gems and fragrant unguents in profusion.

  31. Then she took down her dead paramour from the tree, and placing him in a sitting position, she adorned him with unguents and flowers, and though he was senseless, embraced him, with mind blinded by passion and grief.

  32. Set gums and choice unguents of every kind for thy nose, Garlands of lotuses on the shoulders, And on the breast of thy sister, who is in thy heart, Who sitteth at thy side.

  33. Orsini rose and stepped away from her; the perfume of her unguents offended him.

  34. These attendants should place before the King the ointments and unguents sent by each of these wives, marked with the seal of her ring, and their names and their reasons for sending the ointments should be told to the King.

  35. Art of applying perfumed ointments to the body, and of dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it.


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