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Formulated with a delicious, warm blend of carrot seed oil, pumpkin, sweet potato, fig, and dead-sea mud, the paraben-free scrub and moisturizing cream will leave your cuticles, hands and elbows cashmere-soft and buffed.

Felicia C. Sullivan: Splurge on Yourself: The Season's Luxe Holiday Indulgences 2009

Creating an ocean of sorrow saltier than the dead-sea.

Non-Enemy Combatant 2008

A proposed $12 million through 2002 will be used to expand two shallow-water observatories, build two new dead-sea observatories, and develop two high-tech "submersibles" to explore exotic sea life.

Exploring The Last United States Frontier ITY National Archives 1998

But when she had done it, victory was dust in her palm and bitter in her mouth as dead-sea apples.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

Neither could she return to the old life again, now that it was shorn of its vital interest, and year after year cast her bread upon the waters in the uncertain pursuit of happiness, only to reap the harvest of dead-sea fruit that is ever borne in on the shallow tides of worldliness.

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

He smiled at her, little dreaming that she had only won dead-sea fruit.

The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper

It might be said with greater truth that at no time were civilized men so unhappy, for the happiness that was theirs was empty, mere dead-sea fruit, dust and ashes in the mouth; a very Death in Life.

The Unity of Civilization Various

The two prevailing schools of literature in England, at that time, were the trashy and mouthing writers who adopted the sounding language of Johnson and Darwin, unenlivened by the vigorous thought of either; and the "dead-sea apes" of that inflated, sentimental, revolutionary style which Diderot had unconsciously originated, and Kotzebue carried beyond the verge of caricature.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

The result of the present attitude of trade unionism is not a dead-sea level of mediocritythat would be bad enough-but a dead-sea level of what is the lowest minimum of the poorest man in the establishment.

Canada Within the Empire 1921

Towards these mournful quags and quicksands, with their dead-sea flora of anecdote and allegory, the best part of the little talent we produce seems irresistibly to be drawn: by these at last it is sucked down.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922