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Meanings of precious ointment in English

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Usage of precious ointment in English
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To them the precious ointment was an important essential of legitimate kingship.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French
2
Sure enough, there was the little box with the precious ointment.
The Lilac Fairy Book
3
There was no waste in the breaking of those alabaster boxes of precious ointment.
Woman and Her Saviour in Persia / By a Returned Missionary
4
That same night the alabaster box was broken and the precious ointment poured out.
A Child's Book of Saints
5
Then Judas related once more the story of Mary Magdalene's waste of precious ointment.
King of the Jews: A story of Christ's last days on Earth
6
Here were three separate portions of the precious ointment.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French
7
There He was approached by a woman carrying an alabaster box containing very precious ointment.
The Gospel of Matthew for Readers
8
No wonder that the outcast woman kissed His feet and poured out the precious ointment upon Him.
Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
9
To her Proserpine gave the box of precious ointment that Aphrodite described, and gladly she hastened homeward.
A Book of Myths
10
When Jesus sat at the table of Simon the Leper, Mary Magdalen anointed Him with precious ointment.
The Happiness of Heaven / By a Father of the Society of Jesus
11
And now all pent-up love of a long life empties its precious ointment on the head of Cossette.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
12
Prepare now precious ointment for these men, and wash their heads, and equip them. And this was done.
The Mabinogion
13
Sympathy is God's box of precious ointment and see that you break yours over her heart this day.
The Road to Providence
14
As He sat at dinner, a woman came to Him carrying an alabaster box of very precious ointment of spikenard.
The Gospel of Mark for Readers
15
You never thought of putting ordinary olive oil on my head; but this woman has put precious ointment on my feet.
The King Nobody Wanted
16
Her tears rained down on his feet; she wiped them off with her hair, and then anointed them with precious ointment.
The Parables of Our Lord
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