pitch-plaster

Antipodes, and curing the sick by covering them all over with pitch-plaster.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

We all roared at this, and the doctor as loud as anyone; but he vowed that he had no hand in the pitch-plaster.

Mens Wives 2006

I am informed that at this period of his life he wrote some poems relative to his unhappy passion; a wild set of verses of several lengths, and in his handwriting, being discovered upon a sheet of paper in which a pitch-plaster was wrapped up, which Lieutenant and Adjutant Wheezer was compelled to put on for a cold.

Mens Wives 2006

If any other comes, I shall pitch-plaster him, for I could not endure that noise again.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

To add to this the gardener roared out some interpolated English popular songs, which suited Mozart's music just as a pitch-plaster would suit the face of the Venus de 'Medici.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

To add to this the gardener roared out some interpolated English popular songs, which suited Mozart's music just as a pitch-plaster would suit the face of the Venus de 'Medici.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

The latter was one of the people who take all the hair off their bodies with pitch-plaster.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

If any other comes, I shall pitch-plaster him, for I could not endure that noise again.

Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

And so sir, I sees him dodgin 'about one day sir, yes sir, and at last he gits a hopportunity sir and claps a pitch-plaster on the mouth o' th 'pump sir, and says he's done for his wust henemy sir.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

I am informed that at this period of his life he wrote some poems relative to his unhappy passion; a wild set of verses of several lengths, and in his handwriting, being discovered upon a sheet of paper in which a pitch-plaster was wrapped up, which Lieutenant and Adjutant Wheezer was compelled to put on for a cold.

Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837