"Arnica" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gipsy beat a retreat to the house, where Miss Edith, who had been an agitated spectator from the linen-room window, bathed the wounded leg, put arnica on the bruises, and comforted the sufferer, while ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... genus Arnica. Tincture of the dried flower heads of the European species A. montana, applied externally to relieve the pain and inflammation ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... won't bump your head, grandpa will bring you a wax doll from Kalsing to-morrow." Another day, baby's sister in banging on the window-pane struck through the glass and cut her fist. "Poor little dear! Poor childie! Let me bind it up quickly. Harry, love, bid nurse fetch the arnica at once," exclaimed Miss Noel; but the patient stamped and shrieked, and would not have her hand examined or doctored by anybody, whereupon her admiring mother said, "Jenny has always been that way. She has a great deal of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 • Various
... water, every hour until relief is afforded, is among the best remedies. Or, give a quarter of a pint of whisky in a pint of water every hour, or the same quantity of brandy as often, or a quart of ale every hour, or 1 ounce of tincture of arnica in a pint of water every hour until five or six doses have been given. If none of these remedies are at hand, 2 ounces of oil of turpentine, shaken with a half pint of milk, may be given once, but not repeated. The animal may be ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... opposing desires: One, for rescue followed by sympathy and supper; the other, for the alarming experience of a night of terror where I lay. Nature conquering Art, I yelled; and the episode terminated prosaically with a warm bath and arnica. But from it I judge that desire for the woes and perils of authorship was with me ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... a rest and get our breath. "That wasn't a bad adventure—quite reminds me of my old seafaring days when I sailed with the smugglers—Golly, that was the life!—Never mind your head, Bumpo. It will be all right when the Doctor puts a little arnica on it. Think what we got out of the scrap: a boat-load of ship's stores, pockets full of jewelry and thousands of pesetas. Not bad, you ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... whether it was true or not. The old woman, who had the peddler-and-petticoat episode, was not in it the same day with your brother's friend! I do assure you. And anyhow—even if he still has brains—his writing apparatus is all done up in arnica, so there you are! ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... little alive again, and yet you are such cowards that you have not even the courage of passion, but label your drug Friendship, and beg Society to observe that you only keep it for family uses like arnica or like glycerine. You want notoriety; you want to indulge your fancies, and yet keep your place in the world. You like to drag a young man about by a chain, as if he were the dancing monkey that you depended upon for subsistence. You like other women to see that you are ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... an hour in writing. I had grown tired, and throwing down my pen and pad, I left Mr. Longworth still at work, and strayed out into the field in the sun. There had been no rain for days, and the locusts filled the air with their zeeing. The wide field was dotted with golden patches of the arnica blossom, or yellow daisy, as the farmers called it. I wandered through the hot, knee-high grass, picking handfuls of the broad yellow suns, then childishly threw them away, and pulled others, with great heads of sweet red clover, and spears of timothy too. I was ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich
... here, Doctor DuQuesne," she commanded. "I'm going to apply a little first-aid to the injured. Arnica and iodine are all I can find, ...
— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby
... linctus[obs3], lincture[obs3]; medicament; pharmacon[obs3]. nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon[obs3], panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac[obs3], ptisan[obs3]. agueweed[obs3], arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset[obs3], calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts[Chem]; feverroot[obs3], feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina[obs3]; sassafras, yarrow. salve, ointment, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... that it was nothing more; but she nevertheless insisted on leading Richard into the workshop, and soothing the slight inflammation with her handkerchief dipped in arnica and water. The elusive faint fragrance of Margaret's hair as she busied herself about him would of itself have consoled Richard for a deep wound. All this pretty solicitude and ministration was new and sweet ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... tumble down-stairs?" asked Mrs. Scherman, in the way mothers do, when she had released him from Mrs. M'Cormick, carried him to the nursery, got him on her knee in a speechful condition, and was tenderly sopping the blue lump on his forehead with arnica water. ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... no! for he was trying hard these days to be a regular boy and never to cry even one little whimper. So he just went in the house and Mother put a kiss and some arnica on it—it is always more effective if mixed that way—and out he came and tried it all over again. For regular boys never give up. Of course, at first he threw the ball a little lower than before, but that was only wise. And this time it did fall into ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson
... calls the result of "the success of a court intrigue,"[105] and, without a particle of evidence to justify the imputation, affirms to "have been prepared beforehand with much art and combination." But amicus Fox, sed magis arnica veritas; and though he thus passes censure on Pitt, where the facts on which he bases it are at least unproved, on those points as to which the facts are clear and certain he condemns Fox altogether, affirming that his "attempt to show that the crown had not the prerogative of dissolving Parliament ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge
... some tinscher of arnica in yer bag," said the junior apprentice in the very high collar. (He had witnessed one of the lessons at the top of ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... little lad was quick-witted enough to jump up and climb the fence just in time to escape a second attack from the ugly old beast. From a safe place he watched the bees and the ram with keen concern. But Edison says his mother used up a lot of arnica on his small frame after this double encounter. The little lad early learned to observe that 'It's a great ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron
... armilaro. Armchair segxego. Armistice interpaco. Armlet cxirkauxbrako. Armorials insigno. Armour armajxo. Armourer armilfaristo. Armoury armilejo. Armpit subbrako. Arms (weapons) armiloj, bataliloj. Army (military) militistaro. Army (non-military) armeo. Army-corps korpuso. Arnica arniko. Aroma aromo. Aromatic aroma. Around (prep.) cxirkaux. Around (adv.) cxirkauxe. Arouse veki. Arpeggio arpegxo. Arraign kulpigi. Arrange arangxi. Arrant fama. Array (deck out) ornami. Arrears, in malantauxe. Arrest aresti. Arrival ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... preyin' on Armstrong's uncle. When she breaks out of the corral an' goes stampedin' off to her tribe, she leaves behind mebby it's a hundred bottles or more of patent med'cine, rangin' all the way from arnica to ha'r dye. ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... Mrs. Watson came to my bedroom before I went to bed and asked if I had any arnica. She showed me a badly swollen hand, with reddish streaks running toward the elbow; she said it was the hand she had hurt the night of the murder a week before, and that she had not slept well since. It looked to me as if it might be serious, and ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... reports are true. Cotton and sugar are produced in Bolivia as are the nutmeg and castor bean. Oranges and all such fruit are also grown in some parts of this country. But the supply and variety of medicinal plants is remarkable. The list includes aconite, arnica, absinthe, belladonna, camphor, cocaine, ginger, ipecac, opium, sarsaparilla and a lot ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols
... bone fer to git out th' logs on salt-horse an' dough-gods 't w'd sink a battle-ship. 'Tis a lucky divil ye ar-re altogither," railed Fallon good-naturedly as he returned from supper and found Bill engaged in the task of swashing arnica on his bruised foot. ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... Willie," she cried, "stooping to brawl with a low fellow like that. It serves you right if you have got hurt. Come, run in and get your face bathed in hot water. Why, it's dreadful! Go right up stairs and get me the arnica, Teddie!" ...
— The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage • Charles G. D. Roberts
... is placed in a heap upon the floor. Fowls and animals are slaughtered for the occasion; their heads are cut off and their blood is sprinkled upon the earth. After feasting and drinking, a dance follows, the dancers wearing crowns and necklaces of yellow arnica flowers, and carry in their hands wands made of pine-splints wrapped with corn-husks, and with a flower of arnica tied to each end. The second day, corn on the ear and beans are brought instead of earth, and these are sprinkled with blood. On both days, blood-sprinkled material is ...
— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr
... gave the boys about every style of punch and jab I could think of, and with my home-run bat too. Oh! make up your mind they're going to be a sore lot in the morning. And if you run up against Ted, just sniff the air for arnica. My word for it, he'll empty the ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren |
