sandarach

The medicine is prepared of the following ingredients: - Of black hellebore, of sandarach, of the flakes of copper, of lead washed, with much sulphur, arsenic, and cantharides.

On Ulcers 2007

The powder from hellebore and sandarach alone answers.

On Ulcers 2007

Shaking torches with veil-covered face, he had cast a black cock upon a fire of sandarach before the breast of the Sphinx, the Father of Terror.

Salammbo 2003

It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes sandarach.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

The following is a varnish for iron and steel given by a recognized authority: 5 parts of camphor and elemi, 15 parts of sandarach, and

Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown

This runs into it, and at once makes that vast river bitter, for the reason that the water of the brook becomes bitter by flowing through the kind of soil and the veins in which there are sandarach mines.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

Take 2 oz. of gum sandarach, 1 oz. of litharge of gold, and 4 oz. of clarified linseed oil, which boil in a glazed earthenware vessel till the contents appear of a transparent yellow colour.

Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown

He sprang behind the great table against the window and seized the heavy-leaden sandarach.

Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

He used his sandarach to the end of the page, blew off the sand, eyed the sheet sideways, laid it down, and set another on his writing-board.

The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906