90 examples of concoction in sentences

Mrs Ottley listened imperturbably to Edith's story, a somewhat incoherent concoction, but told with dash and decision, that Bruce had been ordered away for a sea-voyage for fear of a nervous breakdown.

When she entered his room with this concoction a little later, the odor from it was so inviting that the Baron breathed it in gratefully.

However, you are now about to have a most marvellous concoction called 'Russian Salad.'

But for that moment of clear vision and high resolve he might be to-day even as these who had won such clear title to his contempt, who stultified themselves with vain imaginings and the everlasting concoction of schemes whose sheer intrinsic puerility foredoomed them to farcical failure.

Do they not fortify like a cordial; enlarging the heart, and productive of sweet blood, and generous spirits, in the concoction?

The Poet examines that most which he produceth with the greatest leisure, and which, he knows, must pass the severest test of the audience, because they are aptest to have it ever in their memory: as the stomach makes the best concoction when it strictly embraces the nourishment, and takes account of every little particle as it passes through.

The after part of the dinner would be a dish of baked apples with warm gingerbread, or sometimes a deep apple pandowdy, or the baked Indian pudding that was a syrupy, fragrant concoction made of corn meal and butter and molasses baked patiently in the oven for hours.

ripening &c v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.

We passed the greater part of the night in a delightful stream of that somnolent and half-mystic talk which Prince Zaleski alone could initiate and sustain, during which he repeatedly pressed on me a concoction of Indian hemp resembling hashish, prepared by his own hands, and quite innocuous.

His mind was instantly active in the concoction of a story.

Underneath the later concoction of fable is a solid substratum of fact which no serious student can ignore.

Apparently there was no subject in the world more vital at that moment than the selection of just the proper concoction.

Mamma and I owe our sweet-tooth and honey-lip to bits of her concoction.

Underneath the later concoction of fable is a solid substratum of fact which no serious student can ignore.

We thought we had supped full of this commodity; but it seems as if the most ghastly and disgusting portion of the meal was reserved for the present day, and its most hideous concoction for the writer before us,who is never so much in his favourite element as when he can "on horror's head horrors accumulate."

The proprietor of "THE STANDARD NOVELS" has therefore imagined that even an account of the concoction and mode of writing of the work would be viewed with some interest.

Thus I have endeavoured to give a true history of the concoction and mode of writing of this mighty trifle.

" I had thought to have said something here respecting the concoction of "St. Leon" and "Fleetwood."

Dr. Funk of Samoa, who had been a physician to Robert Louis Stevenson, had left the receipt for the concoction when he was a guest of the club.

If there happened to be a shoal of fish near the quays, I was sure to see Joseph, to whom the wise Dr. Funk had confided his precious concoction.

It is such a ripe, rich, full-flavoured irresistible concoction.

Concoction, of a play, iii. 259.

The business of love-making warrants any concoction to which the lover may resort.

"A choice made by persons who have no right to choose, is an error of the first concoction."

Children wore moles feet and pearl buttons around their necks to insure easy teething and had their legs bathed in a concoction of wasp nest and vinegar if they were slow about learning to walk.

90 examples of  concoction  in sentences