The word nard, is Hebrew from the word nerad; and the word spikenard is. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
It is called pistic nard, that is, faithful and precious. From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark] Reference
Then, opening a jar of nard, he had us all anointed. From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] Reference
I fear anything that can bite my in one specific nard. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Diary 17: “Running and Running Late”] Reference
No. You're more interested in sending me to Caith - nard. From Wordnik.com. [Heir of Sea and Fire]
Well, it would have to do; he bit at the iron-nard biscuit. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Only sixteen years, four months, two days to Bar-nard's Star. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and Other Stories]
The moon came into the forge in her bustle of flowering nard. From Wordnik.com. [BLOOD ORANGE MOON] Reference
I don't get why the title of this post is "leo-nard bern-stein.". From Wordnik.com. [leo-nard bern-stein] Reference
It was an alabaster jar of spike - nard, which she massaged into my hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Gospel according to the Son]
And she is as fragrant as the costly, aromatic ointment from the nard plant. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference
It was the fished main-nard, splinted between the two spare studding sail booms. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Song of Songs, 1-8: “While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncensored Bible: Authors expose a steamier side of Scripture] Reference
Thursday, August 26, 2004 un fouinard un (e) fouinard (e) (fwee-nar, fwee-nard) noun, masculine. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
It clears all the accumulated nard down there and releses energy, so that I can be creative again. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
No one knows what De-nard was paid, or whether he will regain his lucrative old sinecure - overseeing tourism. From Wordnik.com. [Deja Coup All Over Again] Reference
Solomon links the musky, moist ointment of nard with a cluster of fiber-like strands of saffron in his compliment. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference
The nard, from which this perfume was made, is a plant of the East Indies, with a small slender stalk, and a heavy, thick root. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The ancients were much in the habit of anointing or perfuming their bodies, and the nard was esteemed one of the most precious perfumes. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
For instance, in her discussion about the game of nard, Anna Contadini wrote that the playing pieces were called "kilab" dogs in Arabic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
And flower of nard, which to our nostrils breathes. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
That breath the balm, the myrrh, the nard shall be. From Wordnik.com. [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
And Thy Blood dropped more precious than the nard. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Then to the nard; and enter to us guitar and light fantastic toe. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
The precious nard that filled the room with fragrance so deliciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889)] Reference
Syrian nard, the poet who sang of himself as Hermes 'gift; and withal. From Wordnik.com. [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference
Page nard asked, disregarding the girl's evident anxiety to appease them. From Wordnik.com. [Shizu`s New Year`s Present] Reference
Version in these passages has "pistic nard," pistic being perhaps a local name. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Did you expect, madame, to find a M. M.nard reigning in the heart of your daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadet A Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
The Author's Chamber -- Index, the bookseller, and Ber - nard Blackmantle, projecting a new work. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
Her hair is fragrant with Oriental nard, and is bound by a purple fillet and a chaplet of roses. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference
Here he stopped before Vinicius and inquired, -- "But as to thee, dost thou keep always to nard?". From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
Sir Henry's Lady was the eldest daughter of Joseph Maynard, Esq. son and heir of Sir John May nard. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical] Reference
Spike-nard, a foreign plant a. Spi-ral, of a screw-like form a. Spite-ful, full of malice a. Splen-did, noble, magnificent. From Wordnik.com. [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference
This costume, worn by M.s. Lucy M. Bennett of Petersburg, Illinois, has been a familiar attraction at old settlers 'gatherings in M.nard. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine December, 1895] Reference
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