"Pomel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... So near! Nay, then to my last shift. [Undoes the Pomel of his Sword. Come, my good Poison, like that of Hannibal; long I have born a noble Remedy for all the Ills of Life. [Takes Poison. I have too long surviv'd my Queen and Glory, those two bright Stars that influenc'd my Life are ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... is, in regard to "works of art," a most able expert, and I think it is better that experts should always be right. Spermaceti was known, probably from classical times onwards, as a rare and precious unguent, "resolutive and mollifying," as M. Pomel, "chief druggist to the late French King Louis XIV," says in his treatise on drugs, translated into English in 1737. It was applied as a liniment for hardness of the skin and breasts, and was also taken internally. Shakespeare's reference to it ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
... for the shame I wyl not spare. Now kepe the from me, for thow arte but a dede ma. And therwith Accolon gaf hym suche a stroke that he felle nyghe to the erthe, and wolde haue had Arthur to haue cryed hym mercy. But syre Arthur pressed unto Accolon with his sheld and gaf hym with the pomel in his hand suche a buffet that he wente thre strydes abak. * * * And at the next stroke Syr Accolon stroke hym suche a stroke that by the damoysels enchauntement the swerd Excalibur felle oute of Accolons hande to the erthe. And therwith alle syre Arthur lyghtely lepte ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman |
