Resin in Turkish delight

Usage examples of mastic.

The walls are covered with excreta chemically similar to the pile excretions, which forms a mastic to reinforce the tunnel against .

He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.

But she reclined on soft cushions behind the lattice of the balcony on the street, drinking sherbet, chewing mastic and eyeing the passers-by.

He held a fly whisk and moved it languidly from side to side to keep the flies from the little bags of cloves, nutmeg, mastic and cinnamon and the little glasses of laurel and myrtle oil.

I passed completely empty canvases on easels, canvases poked from behind in a few places by pegs, so that the sheetlike surfaces were broken into geometric shapes, and I passed gray-brown-green sackcloth forms in frames, forms whose material the eye could recognize only very close up -- shreds of netting stuck under mastic or glue, iron fillings, rubber shells -- but at the next work I stopped.

He held the pestle upright on the table, chewed his mastic and ground his medicaments in the mortar till the late hours, deep in care.

He plays draughts with the Metropolitan, they drink mastic, eat baklava and sit up together all night whispering secrets!

Sebastiano had mixed mastic and resin with the lime, brewed them together, applied the plaster with a mason's trowel heated over fires.