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This acid exists abundantly in other fruits, but especially in the tamarind; in the grape it exists along with citric, malic, and an acid called vinic, which resembles tartaric acid in many respects, but differs from it in others, and concerning the nature of which almost nothing is known: these four constitute the agreeable tartness of the juice of that fruit. Oxalic Acid.
Dunnaker very shortly; and that respectable individual, still smarting under his bruises, replied with equal tartness. Words grew high, and at length Paul, desirous of concluding the conference, clenched his fist, and told the redoubted Dummie that he would "knock him down." There is something peculiarly harsh and stunning in those three hard, wiry, sturdy, stubborn monosyllables.
With the infinitely delicate sense of youth, Archie avoided the subject from that hour. It was perhaps a pity. But the shadow of a threat of ridicule sufficed; in the slight tartness of these words he read a prohibition; and it is likely that Glenalmond meant it so. Besides the veteran, the boy was without confidant or friend.
"And are you sure you know any better what you say or what you mean, now?" said Dora. The altered look and tone of tartness in which this question was asked produced as sudden a change in Harry's conviction. He hesitatingly answered, "I am " "He is," said Sheelah, confidently. "I did not ask your opinion, Sheelah: I can judge for myself," said Dora.
The necessity to brave society, in the character of honest Defendant, caused but a momentary twitch of the nerves. Her heart beat regularly, like a serviceable clock; none of her faculties abandoned her save songfulness, and none belied her, excepting a disposition to tartness almost venomous in the sarcastic shafts she let fly at friends interceding with Mr.
For their appearance was picturesque of the ancestral time, and their ideas and scrupulousness of delivery suggested the belated in ripeness; orchard apples under a snow-storm; or any image that will ceremoniously convey the mind's profound appreciation together with the tooth's panic dread of tartness.
In the taste of things, sweetness and tartness became insipid and nauseous, the moment they reached his palate. This was by no means a surfeit devoid of appetites; but, on the contrary, such an immense flood of appetites that the insurgent wave of them struck the region of the impossible with fury, because it could not rush over that barrier.
"Haven't some more people arrived, Cousin Isabel? I thought I heard a carriage while I was dressing." "Yes; Miss Vincent and three men came by the late train." "All Labor members?" asked Alicia, with a laugh. Mrs. Fotheringham explained, with some tartness, that only one of the three was a Labor member Mr. Barton. Of the other two, one was Edgar Frobisher, the other Mr.
"My child, your hand is as cold as ice," she said anxiously. "Are you ill." "No," said the girl hurriedly and evidently trying to suppress her emotion, "but this dreadful news! Do you remember what you said?" "Yes but I never expected I would be a true prophetess," sobbed Mrs. Octagon. "Peter," with sudden tartness, "why don't you give me the details.
He answered Brooke, who replied with increased contemptuous tartness. It is admitted that Camden was indiscreet in his manner of reply, and that some genuine holes had been pricked in his heraldry. But the Britannia lay high out of the reach of fatal pedantic attack, and this little cloud over the reputation of the book passed entirely away, and is remembered now only as a curiosity of literature.
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