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  • While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Eumolpus 'forehead, with spider's web soaked in oil; he then exchanged the poet's torn clothing for his own cloak; this done, he embraced the old gentleman, who was already somewhat mollified, and poulticed him with kisses.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Centuries-old buildings support themselves on crutches of iron piping, their wounds and infirmities poulticed with stucco, slung with clothes-lines, patched up with rotting wood.

    Excerpt: The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber 2002

  • Ruby poulticed it, and though it took the better part of a year, it healed so neatly you would think that was the way the ends of people's fingers were meant to look.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • The best doctors in the kingdom treated it with all their skill; they bathed, and poulticed, and bandaged, but it was in vain.

    The Orange Fairy Book 2003

  • Coats were dirty, with patches that looked suspiciously like mange; hocks were poulticed, and looked swollen; several of the wise old mares were ostentatiously practicing their limps, and there wasn't a hide of an attractive color among them.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Ruby poulticed it, and though it took the better part of a year, it healed so neatly you would think that was the way the ends of people's fingers were meant to look.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

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