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But the seeds of all maladies are the same; and if turpentine, tar, pitch, and beef-suet, mingled with turmerick, gum-mastick, and one bead of garlick, can cure the horse that hath been grieved with a nail, I see not but what it may benefit the man that hath been pricked with a sword.

Kenilworth 2004

In that isle groweth mastick on small trees, and out of them cometh gum as it were of plum-trees or of cherry-trees.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

All, in a mastick hoar ensconced that grew thereby.

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

One said he saw her under a mastick tree and the other under a holm tree.

Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

As he followed the finely-sanded walks, he was startled by a new scent, and with dilating nostrils tried to catch it, tried to remember if it were mastick or some resinous fir; and, walking on like one in a trance, he admired

Sister Teresa 1892

Now there, "he went on, pointing with his stick," there I think grows my mastick or marum; perhaps I smell it, however.

By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892

The poor wretch, knowing no science, foolishly makes a wild shot instead of pleading a defective education, and says, "A verdant mastick, pride of all the grove."

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

But the truth is, the picture has just been varnished with mastick varnish, which is apt to chill with the cold at this season of the year: and so I thought it best to keep it by me till its conveyance should be safer.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846

Beyond the shore, strewed over with these rocks like tombs, ascended, in form of an amphitheater, among mastick-trees and cactus, a sort of small town, full of smoke, confused noises and terrified movements.

The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

But the seeds of all maladies are the same; and if turpentine, tar, pitch, and beef-suet, mingled with turmerick, gum-mastick, and one bead of garlick, can cure the horse that hath been grieved with a nail, I see not but what it may benefit the man that hath been pricked with a sword.

Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801