"Cornea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... used, when young and tender, for enveloping balls of hashed meat, at good tables. The [238] sap of the vine, named lacryma, "a tear," is an excellent application to weak eyes, and for specs of the cornea. The juice of the unripe fruit, which is verjuice (as well as that of the wild crabapple), was much esteemed by the ancients, and is still in good repute for applying to bruises ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... a strongly cut profile far over his shoulder, his head pivoting on a great column of throat above a low, loose collar that had a celluloid gleam where the light touched it. Only one eye and the transparent gleam of another cornea were given to Winifred's view, but that one green-gray orb was as compelling as ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson |
