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He collected stones of various sorts, but when warmed up in the shack they were useless. He found no strictly lunar material which would serve for modeling or carving portraits in the ground. He found minerals which could be pulverized and used as pigments, but nothing suitable for this new adventure in the recovery of lost youth. He even considered blasting, to aid his search. He could.
Burned lime has also been much used, but in more recent years the development of machinery for crushing and pulverizing rock especially in cement manufacture has made possible the production of pulverized natural limestone, and at much less expense than for caustic lime made by burning and slaking.
*VARNISHED FURNITURE. If you wish to give a fine soft polish to varnished furniture, and remove any slight imperfections, rub it once or twice a week with pulverized rotten-stone and linseed oil, and afterward wipe clean with a soft silk rag.
Within an old, very old, stone coffin at the further circular end are the pulverized remains of one of the earliest abbesses. I gazed around with mixed sensations of veneration and awe, and threw myself back into centuries past, fancying that the shrouded figure of Maltilda herself glided by, with a look as if to approve of my antiquarian enthusiasm!
Take two quarts of the richest cream and add to it one pound of pulverized sugar and four whole eggs; mix well together; place on the fire, stirring constantly, and just bring to boiling point; now remove immediately and continue to stir until nearly cold; flavor with a tablespoonful of extract of vanilla; place in freezer and, when half frozen, mix thoroughly into it one pound of preserved fruits, in equal parts of peaches, apricots, gages, cherries, pineapples, etc.; all of these fruits are to be cut up into small pieces and mixed well with frozen cream.
Occasionally the miners find small quantities of auriferous quartz which are so easily broken up, and the pieces of gold in which are so coarse, that after the rock has been pounded a little in a mortar, the metal can easily be picked out with the fingers. Arastra. Quartz is pulverized either in an arastra, or Chilean mill, or by stamps.
"Just look here!" she said accusingly, as she drew out a crumpled paper bag. Alan caught it from her hand and peered down into it. "Pulverized gingersnaps!" he exclaimed. "Want some, Jessie?" "I'm so hungry, I'm thankful for anything," she replied. "Let's eat up the largest pieces ourselves, Polly, and make Alan take the dust for his share, for he was the one to blame."
With their great 42 centimeter howitzers the Germans pulverized the forts that held out against them and soon compelled King Albert to shift the seat of Belgian Government to Antwerp. Albert himself, however, stayed in the field with his army and when it fell back he was among the brave men that covered the retreat.
It was a powerful piece of equipment which would attack jungle on a thirty-foot front, knock down all vegetation up to trees of four-foot diameter, shred it, loosen and sift the soil to a three-foot depth, and leave behind it smoothed, broken, pulverized dirt mixed with ground-up vegetation ready to break down into humus.
The child shook her head, perplexedly. "I don't think we have that kind," she ventured. "We have powdered sugar, and loaf sugar, and gran granulated," she syllablized it, calling it "gran-u-lat-ed" "and we have pulverized sugar, too. But I don't believe we have fig the kind you said.... I'm sorry." He smiled a little a smile of the lips. "It doesn't matter," he said, slowly. "Really it doesn't.
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