Believe it or not, ambergris is also considered gourmet food. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Stuff on Earth?!] Reference
Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
By any name ambergris was the standard of wealth of the age. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
The substance called "ambergris" (grey amber), valued to-day as a perfume, is a fæcal concretion similar to a bezoar-stone. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Their pheasants drenched with ambergris, the carcases. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
They also traded for cattle, ambergris, and raffia cloth. From Wordnik.com. [g. Madagascar] Reference
"We'll just pull the ambergris nodes," Kinder-voort said. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
"What's ambergris?" asked Amy, who rather enjoyed his talk. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
'Have you found the source of the ambergris oil?' he asked. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
'St James thinks our boy may need to buy more ambergris oil,'. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
'Any chance he nicked the ambergris oil while he was in here?'. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Taken in Elizabeth George conjunction with the ambergris oil situation. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
From time to time black slaves brought them coffee flavored with ambergris. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
'So you wouldn't know if someone's been purchasing ambergris oil from her?'. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
Barbara asked her if she could recall anyone asking for ambergris oil recently. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
'I don't even know when I last had ambergris oil in stock,' Wendy said to Barbara. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
"If there was a lump of ambergris in it we all be millionaires!" exclaimed Andy eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island] Reference
And we've tracked down some information on ambergris oil, which was found on the bodies. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
She went on to talk about ambergris oil, and she asked hopefully about Wendy's record-keeping. From Wordnik.com. [With No One as Witness]
The meat was accompanied by sliced boiled lemons sprinkled with nadd and scented with ambergris. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
"Because just now thou smellest stronger than ever, and not of ambergris," answered Don Quixote. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
Turn a pint of alcohol slowly on to an ounce and a half of the oil of lavender, two drachms of ambergris. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
The treble clef, note E, 4th space, is orange; note D, 1st space below, violet; note F, 4th space above clef, ambergris. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
"'Twas a big haul -- one o 'the biggest lumps o' ambergris ever brought into the port of New Bedford," concluded Cap'n Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
I know a fair bracelet of fine emeralds, marked with spotted ambergris, and at the buckle a Persian pearl as big as an orange. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Sounding him carefully, Stubb further perceived that the Guernsey-man had not the slightest suspicion concerning the ambergris. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Right then and there he launched into relating how the wondrous find of ambergris came to be made, neglecting his breakfast to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
It was not long before intelligence of the discovery of the ambergris reached the Governor; he promptly deprived the three men of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
Haller relates that some papers which had been perfumed by a grain of ambergris, were still very odoriferous after a lapse of forty years. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The mist rose more densely; each flower, each blade of grass, emitted a fragrance as of ambergris, and the whole steppe distilled perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
"All his life he has dreamed of finding treasure, or ambergris or something, and here we come along and take it right from under his eyes.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
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