And how that "blue and copperas check" did wear, and how it did shine when it was freshly washed and ironed!
If Copperas chooses to part with them for half their value, is it my place to tell him he's a fool?
Captain Copperas owed no "small accounts" that she knew of, she said; and she had lived with him and Miss C.
Captain Copperas had forgotten to settle for it, he said--if he had gone away.
Captain Copperas brought out a bottle of champagne, which tasted uncommonly good to our thirsty throats.
Miss Copperas recommended her, hearing Tod say he did not know where to look for one.
Miss Copperashad said, when I hinted so to her on first trying it, that it wanted "age.
Miss Copperas of Tod, when we went down on the following morning, and found her equipped for departure.
The grenadier had a choice supper ready; and, in answer to me, said the trunks of Miss Copperas were packed and gone.
Down he went to Captain Copperas ere his dinner was well swallowed, and told him he would take the house.
Any way, Captain Copperas put me off, saying I was to call some evening, and he'd pay it.
Would an honest man like Copperas conceal such a thing if he did not forget it?
Then I should say that Captain Copperaswas a swindler.
To make it worse, he had heard of the new complications, touching Copperas and the furniture, at the Whistling Wind.
I am tired of nosing drains and buying copperas and hounding the latent plumber that he adjust the water-pipes.
I am tired of being told that my neighbor's calf and my neighbor's pet cat, and my neighbor's blooded stock of poultry are dying because of the copperas I scatter broadcast about the mouth of drains.
He then stepped into his house and took somecopperas from a little bag, and mixed it with water.
I believe copperas was mingled with the potion the doctor gave me.
To extract the Vitriolic Acid from Copperas or Green Vitriol 170 5.
Enter feathers, rub around in bath between the hands, take out and add a few drops of diluted safranine, and copperas about the size of a pea.
Prepare your bath of about one teaspoonful of turmeric and copperas about the size of a bean in a gallon of boiling water.
If a rather dull shade be desired, which in this color is quite frequently the case, a small pinch of copperas about the size of a pea will have the desired effect.
If a very dark shade is wanted, a few drops of diluted logwood added to bath at the time you add the copperas will have the desired effect; or a few drops of violet will answer in its stead.
The direct uses of copperas have very much diminished in feather dyeing; as for dyeing black in conjunction with logwood it has been almost entirely superseded by bichromate of potash.
Prepare your bath of one gallon of water at boiling temperature; add thereto a teaspoonful of turmeric and a small pinch of copperasabout the size of a bean.
Enter your feathers and rub around between the hands for a few seconds; then add to bath a few drops of diluted safranine and copperas about the size of a pea.
Then take them out, rinse, lay them down for five minutes in a cold solution of about six ounces copperas in one-half gallon of water, take them up and rinse in cold water.
If wanted a very dark shade of gold, a few drops of diluted logwood added to bath will have the desired effect; and if wanted lighter, a smaller quantity of copperasin bath.
If wanted a very yellowish shade of gold, use more turmeric, less copperas and no logwood, and be particular to have your bath at all times at a boiling temperature.
Prepare a bath of about one cupful of logwood liquor and a small pinch of copperas in a gallon of hot water, not quite boiling, however, and pass feathers through for a couple of minutes.
It was at one time prepared by distilling dried copperas at a high temperature.
In the first bath, should a very dark shade be required, add a little more logwood and copperas than directed in the recipe, and if a very light color, a little less.
Indian red is the term applied to natural hematite ore pigments and to those produced by the roasting of copperas (iron sulphate).
On oxidizing the precipitate resulting from the interaction of solutions of prussiate of potash and copperas (iron sulphate), Prussian blue as used in the paint trade is prepared.
Copperas gives a fast nankeen-colored dye, and this is very useful in making a dull green by an after dip in the indigo tub.
Alum and copperas have been known in the Highlands for long ages.
Probably the commonest way of applying copperas in cotton dyeing is to prepare the cotton with tannin, pass through clear lime water and then through a copperas solution.
Copperas is mostly used for the fixing of wool colours (Fustic etc.
A general method of dealing with copperas is to boil the wool first in a decoction of the colouring matter and then add the mordant to the same bath in a proportion of 5 to 8 per cent.
By dissolving different proportions ofcopperas or copperas and alum in the warm decoction of bark, silk may in the same way be dyed of all the different shades of olive and drab colours\.
Fustic in water; enter cotton, give 10 turns, sadden with a little copperas in the same liquor.
If used for darkening colours, copperas is added to the bath, after the dyeing, and the boiling continued for 15 to 20 minutes.
Logwood is used with galls and copperas for the various shades of greys, inclining to slate, lavender, dove, and lead colour, etc.
Sumach, pass through lime liquor and sadden with copperas; repeat in each of the last 2 tubs, adding more lime and copperas to each.
The most promising simple washes for protecting large trees from rabbits are those containing lime mixed with sulphur or copperas in various combinations.
When mixed with sufficient copperas it has a deep green color and sticks much better.
Her dress was made of thick cotton and woollen goods, all rough with little knobs,--the same Rachel had woven in "blue and copperas checks.
The desired effect of abbreviating the messenger’s story was produced, as that prolix personage in copperas pants, was seen to take Polly aside, and whisper something in her ear.
I war wus skeered than hurt, and if you’ll go to the house and beg me off from the old folks, I’ll never let on you cuddent tell copperas breeches from bar-skin.
Aluminum salts give with cutch a yellowish-brown, tin salts give a lighter yellow, copperas gives a brownish-grey, and chrome and copper salts give brown shades.
The old man did not know enough of chemistry to understand how copperas could be developed from silver, but he was seriously alarmed.
Why, simply because some of her food, preserve, for instance, has been allowed to stand too long in a copper or silver vessel and copperas has been developed.
Copperas is a very dangerous poison, and if it gets into one's food in large quantities there is practically no antidote.
The copperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a basket containing about sixty pounds of copperas in a barrel of water.
All discharges should either be received in vessels containing copperas solution, or, when this is impracticable, should be immediately covered with copperas solution.
Put copperas in a pail of water, in such quantity that some may constantly remain undissolved at the bottom.
Fill earthenware jar with about 5 gallons cold water and add the Indigo, copperas and slaked lime in that order.
If used for darkening colours, copperas is added to the bath after the dyeing, and the boiling continued for 15 to 20 mins.
Copperas is mostly used for the fixing of wool colours (Fustic, etc.
The disadvantage which it shares with the copperas vat, though in a less degree, is that there is a sediment which must not touch the stuff during the dyeing.
Add the indigo and copperas solutions to 5 gallons water, stir well, let vat rest, stir once or twice during 24 hours or until it appear ready for dyeing.
Sulphate of iron or copperas is the chief ingredient in colouring calf black.
Put some fresh copperas into a pan, and some solution of salts of tartar into another, and soak each brush in its liquid.
The name copperas is probably from the old and mistaken idea that the crystals contain copper.
In all operations with the copperas care must be taken that it does not get on the clothes, as it leaves an iron stain that cannot be easily got rid of.
Now put into a round pan some of the copperas fluid, and into another some of the solution of salts of tartar.
Continue washing in this manner till there is no acid or copperas taste; then add to the gold in the bottom of the dish from 1-1/2 to 2 oz.
Dark colours should be boiled in iron, and set with copperas; too much copperas rots the thread.
A lime-zinc vat, with occasional additions of new materials, keeps good for three months, and even then is in a better condition than the copperas vat.
It gives good shades of indigo, although some dyers consider that these have not the rich bronze hue got from the lime and copperas vat.
This vat is used in precisely the same way as the copperas vat; as it contains no sediment, or but little, it works cleaner than the copperas vat and as a rule the indigo blues dyed in it are faster to rubbing.
The amount of copperas should be from one and a half to twice that of the indigo.
It is usually sufficient to pass the cotton through a bath of either copperas or iron liquor, hang up to dry or age, and then pass into a bath of lime, soda or even phosphate of soda.
Generally a lime-copperas vat will remain in good working order for about a month, when it will be necessary to throw it away.
Mr. Copperas has had two other servants of the name of Bob before, but this is the biggest of all, so he humorously calls him 'Triple Bob Major!
We got a little paper at the country town, and I made some ink out of blackberry briar-root and a little copperas in it.
It was black, but the copperas ate the paper after a while.
Weathered oak stain is made by taking two ounces of copperas and the same quantity of dry tannin, dissolving them separately in about a quart of water, and when thoroughly dissolved mixing them together.
A permanent and fine nankeen colour may be made from a pail of lye with a piece of copperas half the size of an egg boiled in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copperas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
