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Perfume, as Balm of Gilead and artistic expression;all the teachers strewn in my wayward path...
In Which I Am Being Thankful Marina Geigert 2007
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In Balmville, just at the start of the dirt road that led home, there stood a very old Balm of Gilead tree encircled by an iron fence.
Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001
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The farmhouse of which we have spoken stood only a few rods back from the beach, and yet it had green fields on either hand; and a row of Balm of Gilead trees in front; an old and sandy road, seldom disturbed by wheels, ran between these trees and the house, and rambled down towards the light-house.
Hetty's Strange History Anonymous
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The consummation of marriage involves the mightiest issues of life and is the most holy and sacred right recognized by man, and it is the Balm of Gilead for many ills.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Lombardy poplar and Balm of Gilead have been great favorites.
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On the guests preparing to leave, they were presented with "a little bill" amounting to about a guinea each for the Balm of Gilead which had been consumed.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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County if there were any trees planted they were willows, a few Lombardy poplars and Balm of Gilead.
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Balm of Gilead, _P. balsamifera_ (A) and var. _candicans.
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While the storm held, Peter Rolls went several times each dreadful day to the room of the mirrors and dosed his dryads with Balm of Gilead.
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The Balm of Gilead was only one of the lucky hits in the drug department, in itself as big as a good-sized provincial store.
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