Assertion: alabaster | /r/CapableOf | keep ointment
Facets:
value: without changing it
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: These boxes were of alabaster, which in ancient times men made hollow to put in ointments: for some write that alabaster keeps ointment without changing it in any way; Pliny, book 13, chap. 1.
text: These boxes were of alabaster, which in ancient times men made hollow to put in ointments: for some write that alabaster keeps ointment without changing it in any way;