Streams of boiling oil were poured upon the heads of the assailants, and red-hot hoops of iron were dexterously tossed over their shoulders.
When the weather was fine, and the sap running fast, it was often necessary to spend a good part of the night in boiling sap.
After boiling for a while, the syrup begins to thicken, and the bubbles to rise higher and higher in the pan, like boiling soap.
The earliest method of boiling sap of which I have any recollection was in a huge caldron kettle suspended from a heavy pole, which was supported at each end by the limb of a tree or on top of a post.
The density of this boiling portion of the liquid is constantly increased by evaporation; and the fresh sap, instead of mixing intimately with the boiling mass, acts as a pressure in the rear, forcing it steadily towards the front.
Thenceforward it enters slowly, and is heated gradually in the rear compartments, while the boiling is confined to the front portion of the pan.
Thenceforward it must be watched with care, to prevent its boiling over, or burning on the bottom of the pan.
Ice and boilingwater represent merely the opposites of a certain scale in the condition of matter, just as we speak of light and darkness, up and down, and like expressions.
Devices of this character are so effective that temperatures much above the boiling point of water have been obtained.
Put the gelatine into the cold water, stir it well and let it stand for ten minutes; then stir again and add the boiling water and the hot jelly; stir till it is smooth and strain through a coarse bag into two or more small glasses.
Cut the beef up into tiny bits; pour boiling water over it and let it stand one minute; pour it off and squeeze the meat dry.
Voltaire mentions one for undergoing the ordeal of boiling water.
Therefore let him be stripped and put into a great caldron of boiling oil.
St. John dies a perfect martyr, resigned to the boilingoil and gross jests of Patroclus and Longinus.
We are not in accord with those pessimists who speak of New York as a boiling caldron of crime, without any redeeming features or hopeful elements.
Then the Husband appeared on the scene, boiling with indignation and "breathing threatenings and slaughter" until money was paid.
Enough for spraying a large orchard is prepared as follows: Add three gallons of boiling water to fifteen pounds of lime.
Boiling absolutely destroys typhoid and other germs, and well repays the extra work it makes.
One case of typhoid fever causes more work than boiling the water for years, if we consider the work only.
Moissan); it has been liquefied, the liquid also being of a yellow colour and boiling at -187 deg.
The preventive measures recommended are, isolation of the diseased animals, boiling the milk before use, and thorough disinfection of all places and substances which are capable of conveying the infection.
She was used to rising in the middle of the night in order to oversee the breakfasts of the peons, the distribution of biscuit, and the boiling of the great black kettles of coffee or shrub tea.
A young half-breed would set the water for his shrub-tea to boiling on the hearth, and the old man would wonder confusedly if she were his daughter.
Among cooks a great difference of opinion exists as to whether meat should be put into cold water and gradually brought to the boiling point, or should be put into boiling water.
Next to boiling or stewing it is the most economical method of cooking.
The effect of boiling water is to coagulate the albumen on the surface of the meat, which prevents, but not entirely, the juices from passing into the water, and meat thus boiled has more flavour and has lost much less in weight.
It is soluble in boiling hydrochloric acid, but it is not reprecipitated by water, as is the case with cuprous chloride.
The blood is boiling in the scalded veins of that boy.
The engine was boiling hard, a dull roaring under the hood that threatened trouble.
And when old Adelbert brought forth from his basket a sausage and, boiling it lightly, served him a slice between two pieces of bread, an odd friendship was begun that was to have unforeseen consequences.
The anchorage was crowded and a boiling six-mile tide made it difficult at best to avoid collision.
The enthusiasm which was kept thus at boiling heat by imagination, cooled down rapidly when brought into contact with reality.
Two of them moved away from the fire to make room for our wet misery and they gave us a pot of boiling water, two bivouac cocoa tablets and a loaf of black bread.
They spit on their hands to keep the dough from sticking, and bake in a pan of hot grease, kept boiling by a few lumps of charcoal.
Every here and there along the shore are large copper kettles filled with boiling water.
On the other hand it may be due to statements about volcanoes and boiling springs which have been confused with it.
Cuir-bouilli was leather softened by boiling (generally in oil), and stamped or moulded into a definite form when in that condition; upon drying it became intensely hard and tough.
This was probably effected by boiling the leather and subsequently pressing it into shape.
The latex exudes and fills these channels, from which it is removed and converted into gutta by boiling in open vessels over wood fires.
Linseed does not give the latter reaction; by treatment with boiling nitric acid it yields mucic and oxalic acids.
The crude material is dissolved almost to saturation in boiling water: on filtering and then cooling this liquor to about 30 deg.
Captain Tartar, now boiling with rage, and striking his fist on the table so as to set all the glasses waltzing.
Mesty was right; in a few minutes the captain himself came up, boiling with indignation.
The heating andboiling of the flip with the red hot "loggerhead" hardly came under the head of "unnecessary Sabbath cooking" even in the minds of the most straight-laced descendants of the Puritans.
