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  • I pulled out one of the tiny drawers in the apothecary's chest, letting loose a gust of camphor.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The apothecary's cabinet had been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected, and now held stores of dried leaves, roots, and fungi, neatly packed in cotton-gauze bags.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • This ark is like to an apothecary's shop, filled with a variety of all delights.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The special ingredients of his elixir were a few crushed cherry and eucalyptus leaves that he scavenged from the trash behind the neighborhood apothecary's shop.

    Stalling 2010

  • Within the mental image of an arca Hugh nested properties of a storage chest, an apothecary's shop, the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of Noah, and a walled city, equipping a student with a model of extended techniques for mnemonic meditation.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The story is told by Caterina, a village apothecary's daughter who, after a brief liaison with a nobleman's son, gives birth to a boy destined to become one of Italy's greatest creative minds.

    Review of SIGNORA DA VINCI Julianne Douglas 2009

  • The story is told by Caterina, a village apothecary's daughter who, after a brief liaison with a nobleman's son, gives birth to a boy destined to become one of Italy's greatest creative minds.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

  • Against all probability and common-sense, this apothecary's assistant, this ill - educated youth who had just been plucked in his preliminary examination, who positively was, and remained, unable to pass the first tests and become a student at the

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • But to Schulerud a graver secret was intrusted, no less than that in the night hours of 1848-49 there was being composed in the garret over the apothecary's shop a three-act tragedy in blank verse, on the conspiracy of Catiline.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • We find him next, with an apron round his middle and a pestle in his hand, pounding drugs in a little apothecary's shop in Grimstad.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

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