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Meanings of porous plaster in English

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Usage of porous plaster in English
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Lord love you, a mortgage ain't so bad as a porous plaster.
The Rules of the Game
2
His father peeled him away gradually, like a porous plaster.
Whirligigs
3
The ground was so perforated with their holes that it reminded one of a porous plaster.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
4
I'm closer to him than a porous plaster.
The Silver Horde
5
A hot-water bottle held against a porous plaster will assist in quickly removing it from the skin.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
6
But you can't pry him off with kind words, any more than you can a porous plaster.
A Poor Wise Man
7
He placed on my leg, six months ago, a porous plaster which has not yet come off.'
The Red Lily — Volume 02
8
Well, I must go and help Pa roll over in bed, and put on a new porous plaster.
Peck's Compendium of Fun / Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, ...
9
Adolf concentrated like a porous plaster.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
10
It is far superior to the ordinary porous plaster, all the so-called electrical appliances, and to all external remedies whatever.
The Youth's Companion, Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13...
11
Bless my porous plaster!
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
12
Something dark and lingering like iodine had given her chin the double cross and her apron looked like the remnants of a porous plaster.
Get Next!
13
A mustard plaster might have the same effect, but the porous plaster seems to me to be the article to fill a want long felt.
Peck's Compendium of Fun / Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, ...
14
We was lost in the snow, one winter, with nuthin' to eat but a plug of tobacker, a can of vasolene, and a porous plaster.
The Furnace of Gold
15
Also I made pores for porous plasters and high-grade holes for doughnuts and buttons.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
16
Porous plasters are good and liniments; sometimes help is obtained by rubbing freely with camphor.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
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