Another method employed the substance called collyrium; this is a preparation of Bruttian pitch, bitumen, pounded glass, wax, and mastich. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
El – Kohl (stibium, collyrium, antimony) being found about. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
I will pray for you; the dust of your path shall be collyrium for my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Fading is the function of creativity, which is in turn the eternally unfolding collyrium, the necessarily. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'] Reference
If you committed a sinful act, it would be a blot on your fair name, as a drop of collyrium on a white cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism and enable us to see other people and their works. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
One should dress one's hair, apply collyrium to one's eyes, and wash one's teeth, as also worship the deities, in the forenoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
And, lastly, travelling with collyrium-pot, looking-glass and comb, needle and thread for sewing, scissors and tooth-stick, staff and razor. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The wisdom of this work, like unto an instrument of applying collyrium, hath opened the eyes of the inquisitive world blinded by the darkness of ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
And the mountain at places looked like (massive) gold, and elsewhere it resembled a silvery (pile), and at some places it was like a (sable) heap of collyrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
How can he, O son of Kunti, wait whose life is shortened every moment, even like a quantity of collyrium that is lessened each time a grain is taken up by the needle?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
The eyes are painted with collyrium and the feet with red dye. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference
"Your letters are a luminous collyrium spread over the eyes of my mind.". From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
"Kohl," in India, Surmah, not a "collyrium," but powdered antimony for the eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
A man happened to find on the road a silver brooch, which women use for applying collyrium to their eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature] Reference
Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism, and enable us to see other people and their works. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
I tried to be poetical and said it was like blue collyrium on the fringe of lashes enhancing a beautiful blue eye. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore] Reference
I laid my cheek within his way, beneath his sandal-soles, And lo, their dust's collyrium healed the ailment of mine eye!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
He kneaded the whole into collyrium, heated it, placed it on the seal, previously moistened with his tongue, and so took. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
It is as the Dervish's collyrium to the eyes, and causes them to see treasures that to the sight of donkeys are invisible. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
On the following day the eyes were more inflamed, The collyrium and the aloes were employed as before, and a seton inserted in the poll. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Dr. Baudelocque employs it with success in the chronic ophthalmia of scrofulous infants, a collyrium being made of the alcoholic tincture. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
A decoction of the leaves in milk was employed as a gargle in inflammation of the fauces, and a collyrium was made with a decoction of the seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Lieutenant Amir also brought copper ore from the Wady 'Urnub, and from the Ras Wady el-Mukhbir specimens of a metal which the Arabs use as a kohl or collyrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
He had bathed in the sulphur-water; he spoke of brimstone being picked up on the hill-flanks, and he had heard of El-Kohl (stibium, collyrium, antimony) being found about. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
“collyrium,” but powdered antimony for the eyelids. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
‘Urnub, and from the Ras Wady el-Mukhbir specimens of a metal which the Arabs use as a kohl or collyrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
(massive) gold, and elsewhere it resembled a silvery (pile), and at some places it was like a (sable) heap of collyrium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1] Reference
It is as the Dervish’s collyrium to the eyes, and causes them to see treasures that to the sight of donkeys are invisible. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
(f. 137a) a chapter giving the composition of a complex collyrium with which he professes to have cured the almost total blindness of. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
"acre collyrium," as Augustine therefore calls them (In Joh. From Wordnik.com. [Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.] Reference
A collyrium of spurge. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
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