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Solacing himself first of all with a few mouthfuls of tamarinds, as he intended to do at intervals throughout his labours, he plunged his hands into a mass of incongruous substances nitre, chlorate of potass, and sulphur being amongst them. The Misses West, meanwhile, had resumed their work after supper, and they sewed until the clock struck ten.
She was jealous of their beauty. The time seemed long to Claudius, though he went in the meanwhile with Barker and the British aristocracy to certain races. He rather liked the racing, though he would not bet. The Duke lost some money, and Barker won a few hundred francs from a Russian acquaintance. The Duke drank curaçao and potass water, and Mr.
The omission becomes important at the next step. 'Under the modest title of an explanation of the meaning of several names, says his son, James Mill discusses 'some of the deepest and most intricate questions in all metaphysics. A treatise on chemistry might almost as well be 'described as an explanation of the names, air, water, potass, sulphuric acid, and so forth. Why does the chapter come in this place and in this peculiar form?
But as he had great expectations from the manufacture of potass, he made us stay, as we would be of great service to him in the end, for superintending the works of that manufacture. It is now time to give a brief description of Senegal and its environs, to enable the reader better to appreciate that which I have to say in the sequel.
To make that clear to you, I will read you an extract from a book on dispensing which I found in the Dispensary of the Red Cross Hospital at Tadminster: "'The following prescription has become famous in text books: Strychninae Sulph. . . . . . gr.I Potass Bromide . . . . . . . 3vi Aqua ad. . . . . . . . . . . 3viii Fiat Mistura
A crisis was at last developed by the gift of a friend who sent them some lumps of "Sulphuret Potass" which the boys heated, when a strange and still stranger odor arose. Absorbed in their experiments, they heard neither approaching footsteps nor voices; the door was even opened, but quickly shut.
I think we had better take his temperature," I said, as I held a clinical thermometer in the shape of a fountain-pen to the rosebud lips of the patient. "103, I think." "Will you wite a pwescwiption?" asked Barbara anxiously. "Certainly, an admirable suggestion, Barbara. Let me see, will this do, do you think?" Brom. Potass. 3 grs. Hydrochl. 5 quarts. Quin. Sulph. 1 pt.
So he says when he came, "I'm going to be out of apron-strings for a bit," and I don't want him to go near home till he's fit to meet the lady. She's a screamer, she is a real swell; and she'd go off her head if she saw him with 'em on. I'll tell you what we'll do. I've got one bromide of potass draught. We'll get that into him somehow, and in the morning we may manage to feed him.
Upon these ashes water is poured, which, filtrating through the hole in the bottom of the vessel, carries with it the potass contained in the ashes, and forms a very strong lye of the colour of strong beer: this lye they call sai-gee, ash-water. It is allowed to remain in this state for four days, during which it is stirred once or twice each day.
Fielding warmed to his new acquaintance. Whisky and potass helped them to discover common friends, about whom Fielding supplied information with a flavour of acid in his talk which commended him to Drake; it bit without malice. Mallinson's name was mentioned. 'You have read his autobiography? asked Fielding. 'No; but I have read his novel. 'That's what I mean.
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