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  • The Hand to Heel Salve is packaged in a round tin and the Lip Softener in a tiny glass jar.

    Farmaesthetics 2008

  • I was greeted on the threshold by a little mat embroidered with the word Salve, and I recognised our Paris drawing-room at once in the red silk curtains and the furniture.

    My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848

  • Avon Is Peddling Umbrella Corps T-Virus Skin Salve

    Avon Is Peddling Umbrella Corps T-Virus Skin Salve 2009

  • She first introduced it by asking her dad to wash her mom's feet for a photographic series titled Salve -- among other intentions, to apply the healing qualities of honey to the varicose veins her mom developed after giving birth to four children and celebrate the work of a mother with a product of a tireless work of a bee.

    Misha Lyuve: Art, Honey and Explorations Misha Lyuve 2012

  • Norbert laid the foundations of the church which was called Salve, and the abbey received the sweet name of Flos Mariae, the Flower of Mary.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • A noble hound called Salve, or as we should say Welcome, spoke to him of the birth of his first born, and every dog in like manner had a name of some signification; thus Ann took it not at all amiss that he should call a fine young setter after her name.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • A noble hound called Salve, or as we should say Welcome, spoke to him of the birth of his first born, and every dog in like manner had a name of some signification; thus Ann took it not at all amiss that he should call a fine young setter after her name.

    Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • * This references 4 Kings 20: 13, "varia pigmenta", as well as the praises of Mary as sung in a sequence by Adam of St. Victor called Salve, Mater Salvatoris, which contains the lines:

    Aliens in This World 2010

  • Now, competition for these area students is coming not only from other small, tuition-driven private institutions — such as Salve Regina University, in Rhode Island, and Sage College of Albany, in New York — but from some of the sector's elites.

    More private colleges court community college transfers 2010

  • Add to it Virgin Wax, and close the Pot well; light a fire, so that it all melts; and make it into a Salve, which is put into a well-sealed silver box, being very well assured that as long as one carries it about one’s person, the Plague will have no effect.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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