plasters

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  • A set of filibusters or pirates may wear looks and brows as black as the sticking-plasters boots that their representatives are dressed in at the minor theaters; but a soldier or a sailor should be, and as a rule is, the most cheerful of fellows, doing his duty in the trench or the storm, dying when the bullet comes, but living like a hero the while. —  Brave Men and Women
  • A refrigerator stood against the wall, as tall as me and four times as wide. —  Mao's last dancer
  • It had come empty only a year before Hari Seldon was granted the right to form his Foundation, but it seemed as though it had been built for this very purpose. —  Flux Tales of Human Futures
  • Finding him apparently dying, I sent at once for Doctor — —, meanwhile trying, with the help of the nurse, every means to bring back warmth to his body, administering stimulants, rubbing the extremities with mustard, and applying mustard-plasters. —  Memories
  • "Well, I think plasters, and liniment, and rubbing, as bad as flat-irons any day. —  Jack And Jill
 

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