ambergris

• You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found. —  160 - Colors For Murder
• The local chemist identified it as ambergris, and showed the astonished fisherman the price list, where it was quoted at thirty dollars an ounce. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• These disc hooks are often found in ambergris, an excretion of the sperm whale. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
• I had almost omitted to state that incorporated with the substance of the ambergris were several of the horny cuttle-fish beaks, which, incapable of being digested, had become in some manner part of this peculiar product CHAPTER XX. —  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
• Formerly, the Shah and Mogul used to present their favourites with one of these birds, as a mark of esteem or favour Footnote 5: Perhaps ambergris ought to be here understood.--E Besides their girdle and bracelets, formerly mentioned, the Popoes_, or inhabitants of the Thousand Isles, wear a bit of stick, the size of a tobacco-pipe and the length of a finger, thrust through the gristle of the nose, which they think renders them terrible to their enemies, as some Europeans consider mustachios. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

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