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Just fancy, there isn't a place anywhere around where we can even get an ice-cream soda!" "Dolly!" said Bessie, in a low voice, reproachfully. "You mustn't " "What a tragedy!" said Holmes, laughing. "Oh, of course, you don't know what it is to have a craving for soda and not be able to get it!" said Dolly, pouting. "So you laugh at me " Holmes was all regret in a moment.
If there was a bit of chaff left unchaffed in all Ireland, from Malin Head to Barley Cove, I believe it came into Dennis's head on this inappropriate occasion, and he forthwith discharged it at Alister's. To put some natures into a desperate situation seems like putting tartaric acid into soda and water they sparkle up and froth.
"The water is pungently salt, like oxymuriate of soda. It is incredibly buoyant. G bathed in it, and when he lay still on his back or belly, he floated with one-fourth at least of his whole body above the water. He described the sensation as extraordinary, and more like lying on a feather-bed than floating on water.
Just give them their head an' let them drift that's all I could do. If the storm lets up you'll see the Split Rock water-hole you can't miss it if you're in sight of it, there's a long black ridge with a big busted rock on the end of it, an' just off the end is a round, high mound the soda hill, they call it, and the water-hole is between. If you pass the water-hole, you'll strike the Miszoo.
The four men at the table were strangers to each other, but as they picked at the grilled bones, and sipped their Scotch and soda, they conversed with such charming animation that a visitor to the Club, which does not tolerate visitors, would have counted them as friends of long acquaintance, certainly not as Englishmen who had met for the first time, and without the form of an introduction.
A rather amusing thing happened once when the two were together in London picking out furnishings for the house he had bought for her at Bournemouth. One afternoon they dropped in at a hotel for tea. It had been ordered by the doctors that he should have bicarbonate of soda in his tea, which it seems he did not like if he saw it put in, but if he did not see it never knew the difference.
But when "school was out," James's spirits foamed over as naturally as a tumbler of soda water, and he could jump over benches and burst out of doors with as much rapture as the veriest little elf in his company.
Sour milk is used in the recipe here given, but if there is no sour milk in supply, sweet milk and baking powder may be used instead, with merely the correct proportion of soda for the molasses. If the taste of molasses is undesirable, liquid, which may be either sweet or sour milk, may be substituted for it.
The thing is as certain as that we two are here arsenate of soda in the stains on the two napkins and traces of arsenate of soda in two of the four glasses; none in the carafe, none in the little bottle, none in the two glasses. I say it before you and before God." "So it is really true. Thank you, Alexis Hutch. Koupriane has not tried to deceive me. There has been nothing of that sort.
I don't agree with you, Brimberly." "Stevens, sir!" "Ah! And you showed him my pictures, did you?" "Yes, sir, I did take that liberty no offence, sir, I " "Hum! Did he like 'em?" "Like them, sir! 'E were fair overpowered, sir! Brandy and soda, sir?" "Thanks! Did he like that, too?" "Why, sir I indeed " "Oh, never mind to-night is an occasion, anyway just a splash of soda!
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