After his battle with King Pellinore, Arthur was three days with a hermit, who by magic salves healed him of his wounds and set him again upon his way.

In camp at night they bathed their swollen lids and applied a cool and healing salve.

Toby will want a little soothing salve on his bruises; and I've got a sore hand myself, where I struck him harder than I meant to on the back of his head.

The honour of the State had been sorely wounded, but gold had been thus far a pleasant salve.

Something in this picture woke up the pain of a recent wound festering in his heart, and yet through all the smart and tingling came a strange sensation of relief, like that with which a styptic salves a sore.

This, too, is a wondrous salve for such wounds as those under which Dick Stanmore was now smarting.