mustard-plaster

• “He prescribed me the usual sudorific, ordered a mustard-plaster to be put on, very deftly slid a five-rouble note up his sleeve, coughing drily and looking away as he did so, and then was getting up to go home, but somehow fell into talk and remained.”

  A Sportsman's Sketches

• “A moment later my uncle was laid, still unconscious, upon his bed, and Jeanne and Madeleine were preparing a mustard-plaster together, in perfect harmony.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “In England, where there's no sun, there's plenty of shade -- and here, where the sun is like a mustard-plaster on one's back, the leaves are all set edgewise on purpose that they shan't cast any shadow!”

  Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

• “Now, the repetition of "my soul" sounded to me exactly like mice-hole, and I suggested the propriety of substituting a rat-hole, at which several became wrathy, and proposed a mustard-plaster for my head.”

  Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

• “Soon the cramped position began to tell, for they were jammed together, and Tippoo felt like a mustard-plaster upon Alec's back.”

  Adventures in Many Lands

• “On the other hand, the need of carrying out this work at any cost acted like a mustard-plaster, and helped us to bear up through the first most difficult weeks.”

  My Life

• “The idea of a pavement in a one-horse town composed of two gin-mills, a blacksmith shop, and that mustard-plaster of a newspaper, the Daily Hurrah!”

  Sketches New And Old

• “At noon, when he seemed no better, I made a mild mustard-plaster and put it on the upper part of his little chest.”

  The Prairie Mother

• “Poppsy was not in the least put out when she watched me preparing a mustard-plaster for the invalid.”

  The Prairie Child

• “His lung is congested, and it may be pneumonia, but I think my mustard-plaster saved the day.”

  The Prairie Wife

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