"Plaister" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a kind word or two after having been so capriciously and petulantly dealt with was less extravagant in his expressions of gratitude. "The Queen hath sent me a paper-plaister which must please for a time," he said. "God Almighty bless her Majesty ever, and best direct her." He was on the point of starting for England, the bearer of the States' urgent entreaties that Leicester might retain the, government, and of despatches; announcing the recent success ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... them well together, and lay it plaister-wise to the soare, it will cleanse the Canker, kill the wormes, and heale ...
— A Book of Fruits and Flowers • Anonymous
... should remayne as a record towardes her further detection and condemnation, who sought meanes of her voluntary accord to be reconciled with the wofull distressed party, but this was nothing else but to plaister ouer and disguise her former inhumane and barbarous actions, for no reliefe at all followed thereof: for oftentimes, as hath beene prooued, the diuells and witches his [Sidenote: Propositio 3.] instruments doe cause such diseases, which neyther the ...
— A Treatise of Witchcraft • Alexander Roberts
... visits the poor woman's cottage.] She sat on a three-legg'd steal, and a dim coal smook'd within the rim of a brandreth, oor which a seety rattencreak hung dangling fra a black randletree. The walls were plaister'd with dirt, and a stee, with hardly a rung, was rear'd into a loft. Araund the woman her lile ans sprawl'd on the hearth, some whiting speals, some snottering and crying, and ya ruddy-cheek'd lad threw on a bullen to make a loww, ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... which is spread on lint as a soothing plaister for sores, consists of equal parts of oil and wax; but lard may be used as a ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote ...
— Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature • Various |
