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So, I got some sea salt, put it in a dish of blue glass, and anointed the dish with ambergris.
In the oily water round it we find ambergris and other fine and wonderful things.
Sperm whales also produce ambergris, probably from waste coalescing around indigestible substances in the intestinal tract.
He excavates the skull, and finds six handfuls of ambergris.
It was probably a fatal piece of ambergris that caused his death.
The rare substance, known as ambergris, was found washed up on an Anglesey Beach by a walker.
The perfumer Poucher defines several grades and types of ambergris and notes that it imparts a velvetiness to fine and expensive perfumes.
Giant squid beaks in the stomach of sperm whales are believed to be one of the prime sources for ambergris, a valuable substance used in making perfume.
Trading relations were established with Malacca in the 15th century, with cloth, ambergris and porcelain being the main commodities of the trade.
Is ambergris still used in the perfume industry?
Is it true that a substance known as ambergris comes from whales?
Its coastal acquisition may have been one reason yellow amber came to be designated by the same term as ambergris.
Urine, faeces and ambergris which are waste products and gained without the manipulation of the animal concerned are not subject to the provisions of the Regulation.
The modern name for amber is thought to come from the Arabic word, ambar, meaning ambergris.
Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen.
Moreover, like ambergris, the resin could be burned as an incense.
The sharp beak of a consumed squid lodged in the whale's intestine may lead to the production of ambergris, analogous to the production of pearls.
As the use of ambergris waned, this became the main sense of the word.
Ambergris is used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfume.
Ambergris is less dense than water and floats, whereas amber is too dense to float, though less dense than stone.
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The hatches were off her hold and our sealskins and our ambergris gone from below.
Musk taken internally is said by many physicians to be almost equal to ambergris for its aphrodisiacal qualities.
Some of the semifluid fces, dried with the proper precautions, had all the properties of ambergris.
The Spaniards flavour it with vanilla, cloves, and cinnamon, and frequently scent it with musk and ambergris.
Bring wine and essences, electuaries and ambergris, if the refectioner have any with him.
Then there was a packet of ambergris and Marston knew ambergris was worth much.
To one pint of highly rectified spirits of wine, put an ounce of the oil of rosemary, and two drams of the essence of ambergris.
Sounding him carefully, Stubb further perceived that the Guernsey-man had not the slightest suspicion concerning the ambergris.
For amber, though at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far inland soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea.
And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist.
We boarded Red Dick's steamer, and there were our sealskins and ambergris.
This and an ounce of ambergris were left with him for his personal use.
A drop or two of essence of ambergris or vanilla improves it.
Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct.
There is no longer any mystery as to the origin of ambergris.
Sperm whales produce ambergris to protect their intestines from the sharp beaks of the squids they eat.
Ambergris used to be highly valued by perfumers as a fixative, but some perfumers have resorted to using the synthetic ambroxan.
The 16-acre site sits on the southern tip of Ambergris Cay, one of numerous coral islands near Yucatan and Belize.
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