The powder from hellebore and sandarach alone answers. From Wordnik.com. [On Ulcers] Reference
It is much more serviceable than the natural sandarach dug up in mines. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
White lead on being heated in an oven changes its colour on the fire, and becomes sandarach. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
It should be dusted over with very fine powder of gum sandarach, and then replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The resin that exudes from the tree is used in varnish under the name of gum-sandarach. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
He sprang behind the great table against the window and seized the heavy-leaden sandarach. From Wordnik.com. [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference
He fetched an inkhorn set into a tripod, a sandarach, and a roll of clean parchment that was tied around with a green ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
We are grieved to interrupt our reader's voyage among the constellations; but the next page crystallizes us again like ants in amber, or worse, in gum-sandarach. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Before the employment of blotting paper a pounce-box which contained either powdered gum sandarach and ground cuttle-fish bones, or powdered charcoal, sand and like materials was used by shaking it like a pepper-box on freshly written manuscripts. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
It appears, from conclusive and abundant evidence, that the greater cheapness of sandarach, and its easier solubility in oil rendered it the usual substitute for amber, and that the word Vernice, when it occurs alone, is the common synonym for dry sandarach resin. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
At her right hand was a three-tiered inkstand of pewter, set about with the white feathers of pens; and the snakelike pattern of the table-rug serpentined in and out beneath seals of parcel gilt, a platter of bread, a sandarach of pewter, books bound in wooden covers and locked with chains, books in red velvet covers, sewn with silver wire and tied with ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
2 ounces; gum sandarach, 4 ounces; color, 2 ounces. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
"Pegola"), previously prepared over a slow fire until it ceased to swell, was added to assist the liquefaction of the sandarach, first in. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
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