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Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes from the islands of the Indian Sea, and the thick oil of red roses, and myrrh and little nail-shaped cloves.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes from the islands of the Indian Sea, and the thick oil of red roses, and myrrh and little nail-shaped cloves.

The Fisherman and His Soul 1998

Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes from the islands of the Indian Sea, and the thick oil of red roses, and myrrh and little nail-shaped cloves.

A House of Pomegranates Oscar Wilde 1877

Pheidon of Argos first makes coined money, and the obelisci -- the old nail-shaped iron money, now disused -

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

Holoptychius or Glyptolepis, the individual to which the nail-shaped bone belonged must have been, judging from the size of the corresponding parts in these ichthyolites, at least twice as large an animal as the splendid Clashbennie Holoptychius of the Upper Old Red, now in the

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

The organism in the rock was a specimen of that curious nail-shaped bone of the Asterolepis which occurs as a central ridge in the single plate that occupies in this genus the wide curve of the under jaw, and as it was fully five inches in length from head to point, the plate to which it belonged must have measured ten inches across, and the frontal occipital buckler with which it was associated, one foot two inches in length (not including the three accessory plates at the nape), by ten inches in breadth.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

It also represented the nails driven into Christ’s hands and feet during the Crucifixion, from its fragrance, like that of the nail-shaped clove.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

It also represented the nails driven into Christ’s hands and feet during the Crucifixion, from its fragrance, like that of the nail-shaped clove.

A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975