"Boric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fish, which are caught in fabulous quantities at Sfax, and could be transported by every over-night train, are hardly ever visible in the Gafsa market. There is no chemist's shop in the place, not even the humblest drug-store, where you can procure a pennyworth of boric acid or court-plaster. So they live on, indulging all the time ...
— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas
... for love potions, to be slipped into Grim's food or into his drink, and was so importunate about it that, after consulting Grim, I gave her some boric powder. The next morning Grim told her that her eyes were like a young gazelle's, so my reputation as a ...
— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy |
