1
They still make them, but most mothballs today are made with dichlorobenzene.
2
Dyed wool, dusty velvet, mothballs, beeswax furniture polish, cigar smoke, pipe tobacco.
3
He was struck with the smell of mothballs as he opened them.
4
The trailer's interior smelled of mothballs, pine disinfectant, and old cigarette smoke.
5
The doctors said it was naphthalene poisoning, from the chemicals in the mothballs.
1
Z: "Will you also call at the chemist's and get me some naphthaline?"
2
It is said, however, that a Strasbourg physician has found in naphthaline an absolutely trustworthy remedy.
3
There is a smell of naphthaline.
4
This again points to the probability of an odour, although this is contradicted by my experiment with the naphthaline.
5
Some contained naphthaline; others the essential oil of spike-lavender; others petroleum, and others a solution of alkaline sulphur giving off a stench of rotten eggs.