Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing

Usage examples of balm.

If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.

Herbert gathered several shoots of the basil, rosemary, balm, betony, etc.

Firekeeper caught the scent of skullcap, wood betony, lavender and lemon balm.

Groves of lemon, groves of citron, Tall high-foliaged plane and palm, Bloomy myrtle, light-blue olive, Wave her back with gusts of balm.

Oh visit me but once, but pitying shed One drop of balm upon my withered soul.

Cyrenaica produced the silphium, or asafoetida, which, like the balm of Gilead, was one of the specifics of antiquity, and which is really a medicine of value.

The perfume of the spikenard had been a balm to the loneliness in my belly.

Clarice had covered with a lace cloth and with balms and creams, hairpins and swaths of cloth.

Add that to all the chive, dillweed, and lemon balm growing around the porch and the smell could knock you over.

The lists of his presents expresses the manners of the agea radiated crown of gold, a cross set with pearls to hang on the breast, a case of relics, with the names and titles of the saints, a vase of crystal, a vase of sardonyx, some balm, most probably of Mecca, and one hundred pieces of purple.

But this being locked, hope, the only balm of affliction, forsook her, and had she not felt the indispensible necessity of actual exertion, this new disappointment would have overthrown her purpose.

His Cockney accent was like balm to Donna after listening to he thick Glaswegian tones of everyone else.

Several kinds of the Mints have been used medicinally from the earliest times, such as Balm, Basil, Ground Ivy, Horehound, Marjoram, Pennyroyal, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage, Savory, Spearmint, and Thyme, some being esteemed rather as pot herbs, than as exercising positive medicinal effects.

For one shilling only, you can place a bottle of this remarkable Horsehoof Balm in your home today.

And Doctor Goddard stood before her now, his bowler hat a little crooked, his smile so reassuring, his suitcase again filled with shiny bottles of Horsehoof Balm.