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She pinned the piece of paper in the cuff of her dress; it would not be found there if, by ill luck, she was caught and searched later on. Next she went to the kitchen cupboard; there were several wide-necked stoppered bottles there, doubtless without the chemist's knowledge, but Marthe found them convenient for holding spices, and ginger, and such things.
At last the transfer was effected and the receptacle securely stoppered and sealed. "In formeryore-time," Hoku explained to me, "old pliests sucked ghost with mouth and spit him to inside of vase with acculacy. Modern-time method more better for stomach and epiglottis." "How long will this ghost keep?" I inquired. "Oh, about four, five hundled years, maybe," was his reply.
"For mother, I have given you some well-roasted coffee," she said, "and in the little bottle that is stoppered and tightly wrapped up there is also some black coffee, better than mother usually makes over at your house.
As for dates, their nutritive value is shown by the fact that they form the chief food of the Arabs; while prunes and figs are used for their laxative tendency. Compotes of all sorts of fruits and stewed Normandy pippins may be easily introduced into the luncheon basket, if put into a wide-mouthed, well stoppered bottle. Now for two or three recipes: Baked Custard Cup.
"Let the yards be slung; the sheets and halyards stoppered," he said to the first lieutenant, who now displayed as intimate an acquaintance with the military as he had hitherto discovered with the nautical part of his profession; "Give the boarders their pikes and boarding-axes, sir; we will now show these fellows that we dare to trust them with arms!"
Two drops of that would kill the strongest man in a moment." "In a moment?" asked Learn. "Yes: he would fall dead directly." "Would it be painful?" "No, not at all, I believe." "Show it me," said Learn. He took the bottle from the shelf. It was a sixty-minim bottle, quite full, stoppered and secured. She held out her hand for it, and he gave it to her. "Two drops!" mused Leam.
A stoppered bottle covered with India-rubber was exhibited as indicating a suitable preserver of the salt, as it affords protection against light, air, and breakage.
None of the halyards were racked, nor sheets stoppered. This was a precaution we always took, on account of the craft's being so tender. We first spliced the main-brace and then got our suppers, eating between the guns, where we generally messed, indeed.
The metal cylinders, neatly cut open, might have contained food dried leaf-like dregs still remained inside. There were small bottles made of pearly glass, too empty except for gummy traces. They were stoppered with a stuff like rubber. There were also crumpled scraps, like paper or cellophane, most of them marked with designs or symbols.
Julia picked up the pieces alone, and carried them out on the tray, and on the tray also she carried a bottle wrapped into a duster. It was a wide-necked stoppered bottle, two-thirds full of white powder; very much like the one she had brought in, but also very much like the one that stood five from the end on the second shelf of the cupboard.
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