| 1. | The good apothecary appeared a little puzzled. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | If your banker breaks, you snap if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | The apothecary came, and having examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 4. | It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary it shall be an holy anointing oil. - from The King James Bible |
| 6. | Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | But the whole drugs which the best employed apothecary in a large market-town, will sell in a year, may not perhaps cost him above thirty or forty pounds. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 8. | The skill of an apothecary is a much nicer and more delicate matter than that of any artificer whatever and the trust which is reposed in him is of much greater importance. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 9. | She ought to have assistance, and my daughter also But the doctor But the apothecary How am I to pay them I would kneel to a penny, sir Such is the condition to which the arts are reduced. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |