Each man and boy received one pound of bread or biscuit daily, with a gallon of beer.
There was a five-gallon keg of water in each wagon, and when all was ready we pulled out of camp, Charlie and Jimmie in the lead.
Put half a gallon of water to boil with two apples, the same as in No.
They had formed two lines, one for the empty and one for the filled pails, and the end man at the latter line was kept busy tossing gallon after gallon of water on the fire.
It was a thing the size of a ten-gallon keg, with a thick tail and flippers on which it crawled, and six tentacles like small elephants' trunks around a circular mouth filled with jagged teeth halfway down the throat.
And when, this morning, I saw the steward struggling with a five-gallon carboy of sulphuric acid, I never dreamed the use he intended for it.
A gallon can of wood alcohol, standing on a shelf in the after- room, had lost quite a portion of its contents.
According to Fulweiler 1 gallon of the liquefied gas will yield about 28 cubic feet of the expanded gas and there will remain a residue that may run up to 9 per cent.
The complete chemical analysis as reported by the North Dakota Pure Food Laboratory is as follows: Grains per gallon Sodium chloride 0.
A plant for domestic use might consist of a 20-gallon tank for containing the softening material and a second tank in which is prepared the salt solution for reactivating the softener.
The output of whiskey, denatured for industrial purposes, is more than three times what is was before the war, and the price has risen from 30 cents a gallon to 67 cents.
To boil a gallon of molasses at a time, and keep it to sweeten pies, is cheaper than sugar, and answers a very good purpose, where there is a large family.
To thicken half a gallon of water with a quarter of a pound of sugar, a little salt and flour, makes very good yeast when you cannot get hops.
Mash and strain the blackberries; put the juice on to boil in a brass or bell-metal kettle; skim it well, and to each gallon of juice put three pounds of sugar and a quart of spirits; bruise some cloves and put in.
After this, you may put in a gallon of cider occasionally, with any that has been left at table, or the settlings of decanters or bottles that have had wine in, but do not put in any water.
A quart or gallon liquid measure is not equal to the dry one.
A gallon of gasoline will give on an average but about five-sixths as much total heat as a gallon of kerosene.
The total heat in a gallon of kerosene is greater than that in a gallon of gasoline because the kerosene is heavier than the gasoline.
If there is sugar in the proportion of seven ounces to a gallon of water, the reading will be at the line marked 5.
In the second table the readings show the specific gravity of the syrup, and from that may be ascertained the proportion of sugar to a gallon of water in it.
An ampere is the unit of electricity flowing thru a wire which compares to the gallonas the unit of water per minute flowing thru a pipe.
One gallon of gasoline, when entirely vaporized, produces about thirty-two cubic feet of gas.
The jelly is obtained by boiling four feet in a gallon of water till reduced to a quart, strained, cooled, and skimmed.
Wet the ashes well, but not enough to drop; let it soak thus three or four days; then pour a gallon of water in every hour or two, for a day or more, and let it drop into a pail or tub beneath.
Boil four feet in a gallon of water, till it is reduced to a quart.
A gallon of strong lye put into a great kettle of hard water will make it as soft as rain water.
One large spoonful of this in a gallon of warm water is sufficient.
Heat a gallon of water, in which dissolve one pound and a half of potash; and a pound of virgin wax, boiling the whole for half an hour, then suffer it to cool, when the wax will float on the surface.
Take a pound of logwood chips, a quarter of a pound of Brazil wood, and boil for an hour and a half in a gallon of water.
For white wine only, mix with the isinglass a quarter of a pint of milk to each gallon of wine, some whites of eggs, beaten with some of the wine.
Boil half a pound of madder and a quarter of a pound of fustic in a gallon of water; brush over the work when boiling hot, until properly stained.
A gallon of strong ley, put into a great kettle of hard water, will make it as soft as rain water.
In each gallon of river or rain water dissolve about six ounces of sea-salt, either by stirring it or suspending it in the water in a linen or muslin bag.
Take a gallonof the above stain, add two more ounces of pearlash; use hot, and brush often with the alum solution.
Cut up the soap and dissolve it in half a gallon of boiling water; pour half a gallon of boiling water over the soda, and enough boiling water over the quick-lime to cover it.
To every gallon of juice add three pounds of lump sugar, and half a pint of brandy, Pour the liquor into a cask, and when it las done working, bung it close for three months, and draw off into another cask.
Family clocks ought only to be oiled with the very purest oil, purified by a quart of lime water to a gallon of oil, in which it has been well shaken, and suffered to stand for three or four days, when it may be drawn off.
Take half a gallon of vinegar, half a pound of dry lampblack, and three pounds of iron rust, sifted.
Imported cauliflowers are brought mainly from Germany and Holland, and come packed in brine in 60 gallon casks.
Spray with kerosene emulsion, made by using two gallons of kerosene, one-half pound of common or whale oil soap, and onegallon of water.
The gallon was therefore poured back again into the landlord's measure, and set aside to be called for.
I can drink a gallon without staggering, and have a bottle at my hand without touching it; but when my duty is done--ah ca!
For myself, as you see, I can drink a gallon without staggering, and hold a fresh bottle always at arm's-length without touching it.
Tark laughed and said that for half a gallon of beer he would go up legs first and take the nest and bring it down in one hand, which he would not use in climbing, and would come down as he went up, head first.
Two or three quarts for breakfast were a trifle to him, and in the evening he would half empty a four-gallon cask and sleep well after it.
For Pale and Amber Ale, one Barrel and a Firkin, at one Shilling per Gallon from the Tun.
It took a long time, and used up a large quantity of fuel to produce even a gallon of fresh water, yet a gallon was sufficient liquid for everybody on board for a couple of days, and we might thus give a larger share to the sheep.
You will hardly get it at two shillings a gallon to-day; and yet it is made of the same materials.
The small ale of the hayfield will give you almost any multiple you like; it is from eightpence to ninepence a gallon now: it was often given away in the sixteenth century as water would be.
So confident was he of success, that he told me he felt certain of being able, in a few months, to go from London to Liverpool with the steam produced by a gallon of oil.
The third said, I am profitable in sparing bread, for I drink a gallon of ale, care not how much meat and drink at home, so I go to the tavern at Nottingham and drink wine and such other things, as God sends me.
I'll wager a gallon I bring him to this house within four hours of the present time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gallon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
