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  • An old lion cannot get hamstrung quietly at four hundred miles distance, but the Empress must send him her condolence and a pot of lipsalve.

    The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

  • Cold weather meant I had a stick of strawberry lipsalve in my bag, so never breaking eye contact with CuteGuy, I reached in, rummaged about, and produced the stick of lip balm with a flourish.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Nay, but her kitchen -- and the glimpses into a cavernous cellar beyond it, wherefrom came gleams from the pale surfaces of milk cans, or it may be of the arms and face of a milkmaid skimming the cream; or again her storeroom, where among other treasures she kept the famous lipsalve which was one of her especial glories, and of which she would present a shape yearly to those whom she delighted to honour.

    The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

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