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She cut cloth into strips and bound all about the place where the ball entered, and then she made a drawing "intment," as she called it, and applied it daily, and in about four weeks, to our great delight, the ball came out.
The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871
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If you be, I'll send you up a receipt for a kind of intment which Miss Sam Babbit invented, and which cures everything.
Maggie Miller Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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Ben had the receipt for that wonderful "intment," and he calls it "Aunt
The Harvest of Years Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell 1871
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Only little fly in the intment here is that self-selection is not a very efficient way of distribution.
Balkinization 2007
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"Nothin 'in the world like Jared Bundle's' intment," continued the imperturbable Yankee.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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You be the first as was ever know'd to scream after havin 'one smell of that precious' intment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Flathead says, that there be only two sorts of maladies -- them of which people die, and them of which they get well -- you must see how important it is to have a box of the Palmyra 'intment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Your whole carcass ain't worth one of the boxes of that precious 'intment.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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When we struck the beach, Clarissa, she took her paint box and umbrella and mosquito 'intment, and the rest of her cargo, and went off by herself to "sketch."
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Which was like a healin '' intment to the sorrow of my hart.
Riley Songs of Home James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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