A merchant of Bagdad had ten barrels of precious balsam for sale.

Enmity should only stimulate love, as a gash in some tree bearing precious balsam makes the fragrant treasure flow.

The soil round Jericho was long celebrated for a precious balsam, which used to be sold for double its weight of silver.

Among others is the tree which yields the precious balsam of copaiba,-extractedby making incisions in the trunk, when the resinous fluid pours forth.

Precious balsam drops from the bunch of poppies in thy hand.