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Example sentences for "logwood"

Lexicographically close words:
logon; logou; logous; logs; logue; logy; lohe; lohn; loi; loiall
  1. He has promised the living of Logwood to Lady Ann's husband, and given her a splendid present on her marriage; and he rushed to fling himself at Blanche's feet the instant he found he was free.

  2. Logwood Hall, at Pau, in the Pyrenees, on the 15th ult.

  3. Logwood and other houses, the principal partner in the great brewery of Foker and Co.

  4. The portal channels are everywhere characterised by a crowd of small nuclei which stain with logwood deeply.

  5. Logwood and other dye materials are common.

  6. Allow a pound of logwood to each pound of goods that are to be dyed.

  7. Dip the goods in--when saturated with it, turn the whole into the logwood dye.

  8. Boil ground logwood with bruised nut galls and a small quantity of copperas, according to judgment: you may have a pigeon dun, lead colour, light, or dark dun.

  9. You may have raven grey, or duns of various shades, by boiling with the logwood a small quantity of alum and copperas.

  10. You can easily make the Madeira of neutral spirits, sugar, raisins, and logwood to color it.

  11. We breakfast on aloes, dine on quassia, sup on logwood and myrrh, and sleep on morphine and prussic acid!

  12. Whether the King of Great Britain will admit the citizens of the United States to cut logwood on the district allotted to his Majesty by Spain, and on what terms?

  13. Ink gives various shades of gray according to its strength, but it would be cheaper to purchase it in the form of logwood than as ink.

  14. Logwood chips boiled in water give a good yellow brown--deep in proportion to the strength of the decoction.

  15. You other fellers can come back to Logwood and I'll pay ye as I agreed.

  16. Now they could observe Logwood better, and its surroundings.

  17. They were in the midst of the meal when Mr. Tingley himself arrived, having reached Logwood on the early train and driven across the ice in a sleigh.

  18. It was still snowing heavily, there were not many trains passing through the Logwood yard, and no switching during the early part of the day.

  19. The property had been found in an old shed at Logwood where the boy had slept for a few nights after he had first been driven from Cliff Island.

  20. The constable had to go back to Logwood without his prisoner, and he evidently feared the anger of Rufus Blent.

  21. This Blent," said Bobbins, seriously, "seems to have everybody about Logwood buffaloed.

  22. He came directly to the island, when I hired him, from the neighborhood of Lumberton, and Preston assures me he hasn't been to Logwood since arriving.

  23. I tell ye, Preston, I gotter take that boy back to Logwood with me," shouted Blent, who seemed greatly excited.

  24. While they slept, the car was shunted to the sidetrack at Logwood and the western-bound train went hooting away through the forest.

  25. Joseph Pearse petitions to remove his license from the house where he lives, the Sign of the Logwood Tree in Lynn Street, to the house near Scarlett's Wharf at the Sign of the Queen's Head, where Anthony Young last dwelt.

  26. Logwood Tree, Sign of=, south side of Commercial Street, between Hanover and North streets.

  27. The logwood and fustic are exported for dyeing.

  28. There is an important establishment at Spanish Town for the production of logwood extract.

  29. Meantime have a medium strong bath of logwood boiling, and enter your feathers, letting them remain in about one minute, take out and rinse.

  30. If found to be too light, return to bath, first adding more logwood liquor and Bismarck brown, and let them remain in bath about one minute.

  31. A good reseda is also easily obtained by adding to the acidulated bath small quantities of decoction of logwood and turmeric, so as to give a feeble bath.

  32. If a very dark shade be required, you will add to bath about a tablespoonful of logwood liquor at the same time you add the violet, and allow them to remain in bath a little longer.

  33. 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 copperas in bath.

  34. 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.

  35. Take your old logwood bath that has been used for black and other colors, or else boil a fresh bath of the same proportions, about a pound to the gallon.

  36. I taught him how to make every color and shade of color known, and my logwood bath that was used during the whole day's work was boiled in a small sauce-pan that held about two quarts.

  37. In the meantime boiling a bath of logwood about one pound to a gallon of water.

  38. Mix a bath of one ounce of turmeric to one ounce of archil and half the old logwood bath; bring to a boil and enter feathers, letting them remain in bath about six minutes; take out and rinse.

  39. Should you desire a darker shade, rinse off starch, and return to logwood bath for a few seconds, rinse off and repeat bichromate of potash bath; then rinse, starch and dry.

  40. The strength of the solution will vary with different samples of logwood and must be estimated by trial.

  41. Their presence, even in small quantity, in the gallo-tannate of iron and logwood inks can be generally detected by an iridescent and semi-metallic luster.

  42. Nutgall, and logwood inks, of course, should not be tested comparatively by this method, as the logwood ink will respond to the ammonia sooner than the nutgall ink.

  43. In case of inks of different kinds this test is not serviceable, for characters written in logwood ink, for instance, will always give up their soluble material sooner than nutgall inks, even if the last named be later applied.

  44. The colouring principle of logwood exists in the timber in the form of a glucoside, from which it is liberated as haematoxylin by fermentation.

  45. Mr. Thomson had further alluded to the color obtained with logwood or logwood extract and wool mordanted with bichromate of potash, and seemed to be under the impression that the color thus obtained was not black, but blue.

  46. But with larger proportions of logwood the color obtained was a fine bluish-black, and with the addition of a small proportion of fustic or quercitron bark to the logwood a jet black was readily produced.

  47. Extracts made from logwood roots are now largely manufactured and often substituted or mixed with the extracts of real logwood, and have in some instances been palmed of as logwood extracts of high quality.

  48. His friend and messmate Logwood lay helpless not far from the depot, and Ferguson approached him under the galling fire from the windows, lifted and bore him off.

  49. Of these were killed Lieutenant Gardner and private Worsham; and Sergeant William Jones and privates Logwood and Hawkins were badly wounded, all very brave men and excellent soldiers.

  50. I remember grass and wheat colored eggs in such trials of strength, and onion and logwood colored eggs; but never calico eggs; they were too precious to be risked; it would have seemed wicked.

  51. Some mothers would let the boys get logwood from the drug-store, and that made the eggs a fine, bold purplish black.

  52. Besides, this hold is filled with logwood and mahogany.

  53. Everything is pretty soggy down there, but we'll hold together, I guess; and I don't believe the logwood will suffer a bit.

  54. For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result.

  55. Two things are of great moment to us, one of which at least would meet with no difficulty, if France and England understand their true interests; I mean the West India trade, and the right to cut logwood and mahogany.

  56. The logwood trade we have some claim to, from our continued exercise of the right.

  57. In the same way logwood and extract of logwood will tinge the bones of young pigeons purple.

  58. Logwood is one of the cheapest and most easily managed of the dye stuffs.

  59. Decoction of logwood and alum; also blues tempered with bright red.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "logwood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ebony; oak; tree; wood