An oarsman sprains his wrist: the carpenter concocts a soothing
lotion. Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
It was swelled and painful; he ordered it to be sponged with hot water, and then some
lotion was put on.
They were suffer- ing sharp physical pain, of course; and weariness, and hunger and thirst, no doubt; and at least none had given them the comfort of a wash, or even the poor charity of a
lotion for their wounds; yet you never heard them utter a moan or a groan, or saw them show any sign of restlessness, or any disposition to com- plain.
His lordship the Count remained in the sitting-room, and having sent for my medicine-chest, made a mixture for Miss Halcombe, and a cooling
lotion to be applied to her head, so as to lose no time before the doctor came.
He had been clearing his head with a
lotion of cold water, as a good preparative to providing hot water for the heads of the jury, and had been reading with the neck of his shirt thrown wide open that he might the more freely choke the opposite witnesses.
But, they tore up their handkerchiefs to make fresh bandages, and carefully replaced it in the sling, until we could get to the town and obtain some cooling
lotion to put upon it.
"Is it with this
lotion that you intend to bathe my cheek?" asked Georgiana, anxiously.
The sun glinted among the bottles of Unfailing
Lotion in the window, and everything in the world seemed to have relaxed and become cheerful.
In the midst of receipts for "Rabbits, and Chickens mumbled, Pickled Samphire, Skirret Pye, Baked Tansy," and other forgotten delicacies, there were directions for the preparation of several
lotions for the preservation of beauty.
The kennels of the upper town, swollen by these continued
lotions, became rivers at the bottom of the city, and the pavement, generally very muddy, it must be allowed, took a clean face, and absolutely shone in the friendly rays of the sun.
We can keep the pain under by means of cooling
lotions and a dark room.
I bustled about in quite housewifely fashion, procuring soothing
lotions for her sunburn, raiding Wolf Larsen's private stores for a bottle of port I knew to be there, and directing Thomas Mugridge in the preparation of the spare state- room.