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Updated: June 26, 2025
A man who knew so much of the surface of Physics must, at least on some one point or other, have taken a deeper plunge; but all parts of the book are shallow.... From the bottom of my soul, I loathe and detest the Vestiges. 'Tis a rank pill of asafoetida and arsenic, covered with gold leaf.
It smells of asafoetida and camphor, and looks like it had recently been tied around somebody's sore throat." "Marse Alfred, I will swear on a stack of Bibles high as the 'Piscopal church steeple, that Bedney Darrington gim'me that same blue hankcher, and he said he found it. I wasn't with him when he found it, but I hardly think he would 'a stole a' old rag like that.
Her female companion overwhelmed her with questions, with proffers of assistance, with requests that the carriage might be stopped that a doctor might be fetched that drops might be gotten that burnt feathers and asafoetida, fair water, and hartshorn, might be procured, all at once, and without one instant's delay.
"Now, I guess you'll believe there's something in the asafoetida, after all! and the wolves'll come all round you and won't go off for shooting at 'em, if you'll only rub it on the soles of your boots." "I'll try it!" said Joe, suiting the action to the word, and then striding onward, and looking in every direction for the wolves. "You'll have to tree, if they come too thick."
Her female companion overwhelmed her with questions, with proffers of assistance, with requests that the carriage might be stopped that a doctor might be fetched that drops might be gotten that burnt feathers and asafoetida, fair water, and hartshorn, might be procured, all at once, and without one instant's delay.
Hold asafoetida to the nose, or sacopenium steeped in vinegar; make her sneeze by blowing castor-powder, white pepper and hellebore up her nose; hold burnt feathers, hair, leather, or anything else with a strong, stinking smell under her nose, for bad odours are unpleasant to nature, and the animal spirits so strive against them, that the natural heat is restored by their means.
The colonel growled something about fools and their questions, but offered no explanation. "It may have been a monkey trick to make us change, our quarters the stuff was sulphuretted hydrogen and asafoetida. It may have been just bravado, but if he thinks he can scare me " He sucked viciously at his cigar end. "I've got workmen in to strip the walls and re-paper the bit that's soiled," he said.
"Come on, then," said Joe, setting forward again, and dismissing all fears of the fire-wizard from his mind. "Let me see how much asafoetida you've got," said Sneak, after they had walked a few moments in silence. "Here it is," said Joe, unwrapping a paper containing several ounces; "but hang me, if that ain't rather too strong a joke of Mr. Boone's about its collecting the wolves.
Afterwards the tables were covered with meats, antelopes with their horns, peacocks with their feathers, whole sheep cooked in sweet wine, haunches of she-camels and buffaloes, hedgehogs with garum, fried grasshoppers, and preserved dormice. Large pieces of fat floated in the midst of saffron in bowls of Tamrapanni wood. Everything was running over with wine, truffles, and asafoetida.
It was composed of half a pound of soft grease, half an ounce of aniseed, an eighth of an ounce of asafoetida, six to ten rotten birds' eggs, and the glands taken from a female fox all thoroughly mixed in a jar and then buried underground to rot it, as well as for safe keeping.
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