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Updated: May 18, 2025
In this way you will find out if the glass has been properly annealed; for we consider glass jars with stoppers screwing down upon India-rubber rings as the best for canning fruit in families. They should be kept in a dark closet; and although somewhat more expensive than tin in the first instance, are much nicer and keep for years with careful usage.
You notice that the Ushabti figures and the heads that form the stoppers of the Canopic jars are quite finely modeled. The mummy itself, too, is rather handsome, though that coat of bitumen on the back doesn't improve it. But Sebek-hotep must have been a fine-looking man." "The mask on the face is a portrait, I suppose?" "Yes; in fact, it's rather more.
When the time comes with such men they are ready to furnish us the best "copy" in the world. Kennedy quickly rejoined us, carrying a couple of little glass bottles with ground-glass stoppers. Morowitch & Co. was, of course, closed when we arrived, but we had no trouble in being admitted by the Central Office man who had been detailed to lock the barn door after the horse was stolen.
The black brocade mules by her bed were characteristic of her useless charming objects that had cost twenty, thirty, dollars. Their sliding tap on the glazed floor was an appreciable part of his happiness; Savina's bottles on a dressing-table were engraved crystal with gold stoppers: it was all as it should be.
'That's just what Gillian said when she was afraid it was you, said Mysie. 'I suppose that's it? And that makes it real right. 'And the golden stoppers! said Valetta innocently, but almost choking Jasper with laughter, which must be suppressed before his aunt. 'May one know it now? asked Gillian, sensible of the perilous ground.
Takes one of these old-fashioned beer bottles with patent stoppers, fills it up with unslaked lime, pours in a little water, stops it up, drops it in a likely looking trout pool, and in one minute it explodes as good as something made by a Russian patriot; all the trout in the pool are knocked out and float on the surface, where this old highbinder gathers 'em in.
"Did you break those stoppers by firing at them with that pistol?" he at length demanded, in a tone of mingled apprehension and rage. "Certainly," answered the professor, placidly. "Did you not see me do it, or was I rather too quick for you? Shall I do the trick again? Just watch the necks of the decanters this time " "Stop!" shouted Vasilovich, springing from his chair in a paroxysm of fury.
These kedges lay on the poop, where they were habitually kept, and two men had no great difficulty in getting them over the stern, suspended by stoppers. Now Mark had ascertained that the rock of the Reef rose like a wall, being volcanic, like all the rest of the formation, and that the ship could float almost anywhere alongside of it.
On examination, Hsi Jen saw two small glass bottles, no more than three inches in size, with screwing silver stoppers at the top. On the gosling-yellow labels was written, on one: "Pure extract of olea fragrans," on the other, "Pure extract of roses." "What fine things these are!" Hsi Jen smiled. "How many small bottles the like of this can there be?"
The main-topsail was clewed up and fortunately saved, the mizzen-staysail was set. "Stand by, to cut away the stoppers of the best bower anchor to let it go, stock and fluke," said Captain G. "Man the fore-topmast-staysail down-haul; put your helm down! haul down the staysail."
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