| In A. D. 76, Pliny described a plant called nard, which sounded like stoechas, but it came from India. |
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| Men smoke and sip tea from short, slender glasses, with the clacking of nard, the local version of backgammon, as a soundtrack. |
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| Mary had prepared a pint of pure nard at home as she waited for Jesus and His disciples to arrive for a meal. |
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| Though nard is now rare on the shelves of the western perfumer, its name stood for centuries as an evocation of the perfume of the lost Garden of Eden. |
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| Ber nard L. Madoff Investment Securities mourns the passing of our dear friend and colleague David Berkowitz. |
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| Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. |
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| So they went to stoechas and called it false nard. |
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| Bride: While the King rests in his own room my nard yields its perfume. |
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| In addition to pepper, De Romanis says, exports included both local products – ivory, pearls, spices such as malabathron – and those from other parts of India, including semi-precious stones, silks and the aromatic root nard. |
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