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Example sentences for "equal quantities"

  • After it has boiled four hours, pour off the water, season the tripe with pepper and salt, and put it into a pot with milk and water mixed in equal quantities.

  • Rub it well inside and out with a mixture of salt and fine Havanna sugar, in equal quantities, and a small portion of saltpetre.

  • Mix vinegar and treacle in equal quantities, and let a tea-spoonful be taken occasionally, when the cough is troublesome.

  • Dip your hands in warm water, and rub on the stain a small portion of oxalic acid powder and cream of tartar, mixed together in equal quantities.

  • Equal quantities of sweet oil, lime water, and spirits of wine, are also an excellent remedy for chilblains.

  • For this purpose, sprinkle on flour, or apply a liniment, made of linseed oil and lime-water, in equal quantities.

  • Equal quantities of salt and saltpetre, put around the trunk of a peach tree, half a pound to a tree, improves the size and flavor of the fruit.

  • Strawberry or raspberry jam may be used instead of the fresh fruit, or equal quantities of jam and fruit employed.

  • Equal quantities of beef tea and whey are good for delicate infants.

  • Rye and wheat flour, in equal quantities, make an excellent and economical bread.

  • Brown amber and pale malt, in equal quantities; turn them into the mash-tub.

  • Make a fine puff-paste of equal quantities of fresh butter and sifted flour; mixing into the pan of flour a heaped table-spoonful of powdered sugar, and wetting it with a beaten egg.

  • Stir together (as in making pound cake) equal quantities of fresh butter and white sugar.

  • Dip each slice of egg-plant first into the beaten egg, and then into the bread-crumbs, and fry them brown in a pan full of boiling lard, or else lard and fresh butter mixed in equal quantities.

  • Mix together as much cold water and sweet white wine, in equal quantities, as will well cover the fish.

  • Physics) Defn: Pertaining to the reception or the giving out of equal quantities of heat by a substance.

  • Defn: A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids.

  • Equal quantities of vinegar and the liquor the fish was boiled in.

  • Ingredients--Equal quantities in weight of beef and cold water.

  • Equal quantities of beef-steak or beef-skirt and potatoes.

  • When the hornblende and felspar are nearly in equal quantities, and the rock is not slaty, it corresponds in character with the greenstones of the trap family, and has been called "primitive greenstone.

  • But there are mixtures of the two elements in every possible proportion, the mass being sometimes exclusively composed of felspar, at other times solely of augite, or, again, of both in equal quantities.

  • In answer to this, it may be observed, that if a number of strata differing greatly in composition from each other be subjected to equal quantities of heat, there is every probability that some will be more fusible than others.

  • When done enough, beat it to a pulp, work this pulp through a colander, and stir to every pint the above proportion of milk, or equal quantities of milk and cream.

  • A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

  • A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids.

  • Beat up equal quantities of juice and cream, and as the froth rises put it into glasses.

  • Then put them boiling hot into the pickle, which must be made of equal quantities of white wine and white-wine vinegar, with white pepper and allspice, sliced ginger and nutmeg, and two or three bay leaves.

  • Yellow basilicon is made of equal quantities of bees-wax, white rosin, and frankincense.

  • When caterpillars attack fruit trees, they may be destroyed by a strong decoction of equal quantities of rue, wormwood, and tobacco, sprinkled on the leaves and branches while the fruit is ripening.

  • Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer.

  • Equal quantities of corn, therefore, will, at distant times, be more nearly of the same real value, or enable the possessor to purchase or command more nearly the same quantity of the labour of other people.

  • Put into boiling milk and water, equal quantities, and cook until the main stalks are tender.

  • The old-fashioned plans of pickling in salt, alcohol, or vinegar, or preserving in equal quantities of sugar, are eminently unhygienic.

  • Equal quantities of cold boiled beets and cold boiled potatoes, chopped fine, thoroughly mixed, and served with a dressing of lemon juice and whipped cream, make a palatable salad.

  • They are very nice served with a sauce made of equal quantities of lemon juice and whipped cream, with a little salt.

  • Take a mixture of milk and lime water, or soda water in equal quantities.

  • Equal quantities by measure of powder and shot form a charge almost universal in its usefulness.

  • These are to be placed in a pot or other convenient vessel, containing a mixture of vinegar and water in equal quantities; they are then to be covered down and allowed to stand about twelve hours.

  • Equal quantities of grape fruit or oranges, bananas, apples and celery.

  • Brass is composed of two parts of copper to one of zinc; or copper and calamine, (an ore of zinc,) equal quantities.

  • Then if mahogany is to be imitated, stain the work over with boiled linseed oil, coloured a little with venetian red and burnt terra-de-sienna, equal quantities.

  • Powder separately, equal quantities of muriate of ammonia and newly burnt lime; put them together into a flask and apply gentle heat; ammoniacal gas will be evolved.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equal quantities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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