As soon as the big white lump had melted over a rose and azure flame of alcohol, I added more snow, and still more, until the kettle was filled with water.
I wouldn't kiss you if you were made of gold and diamonds, and I could have you melted down to spend!
We were slipping past the banks of a little river, clear as sapphires and emeralds melted and mingled together.
In passing through the liver, the blood is purified of some irritating substances picked up from the food-tube, and the melted food which it contains is further prepared for the use of the cells of the body.
Slow frying, which means stewing in melted grease for twenty or thirty minutes, is one of the most effective ways ever invented of spoiling good food and ruining digestion.
When the food has been sufficiently melted and partially digested in the stomach, it is pushed on into a long tube called the intestine, or bowel.
This is boiled, and packed into skin bags; thenmelted fat is poured in, so as to fill up all the chinks and form a thick layer over the surface.
Red beets are usually dressed with vinegar; the white or pale ones with melted butter.
Have over the fire a large pan of boiling water, in which has been melted a piece of fresh butter the size of an egg.
In France, where they do not salt any butter, large quantities are melted in this way for winter use.
Then take them up, drain them well, and pour melted butter over them; touch the top of each with a spot of black pepper.
Then put it into a pot of boiling milk and water that has had a little fresh butter melted in it.
Still worse, when melted butter is added to a cabbage already saturated with the fat of corned beef.
At good tables they are only used as sauce for large fish, squeezed out of the shell, and stirred into melted butter.
To make it, mince the meat of a boiled lobster, mashing the coral with it, and mix it with melted or drawn butter, made very thick, and having but a very small portion of water.
Add also to the egg a tea-cupful of ground ginger, and a table-spoonful of powdered cinnamon, with a tea-spoonful of sodamelted in a little warm water.
To two large pine-apples allow a half pound of sugar, which has been melted in a quart of boiling water.
When the sugar is all melted set it over the fire, put in the grated yellow peel of the lemons, and boil and skim it till no more scum rises.
Her face marked with tears, the long braids of her hair over her shoulders, she looked so like a sad and chidden child that the piteousness of her would have moved and melted harder hearts than ours.
He looked down at me; and his eyes grew wide, his face melted into a whimsical tenderness.
So the last shadows of distrust melted away out of our lives.
His soft blue eyes melted into an expression of piteous entreaty.
She straightened herself and favored me with a curious look that melted at last into a puzzling smile.
Miss Lansdale relaxed--she melted before my eyes to an aspect that no victor who knew his business could afford to despise.
Mushroom Stew= Put about two ounces of butter into a stewpan; when thoroughlymelted add a teaspoonful of salt, and from a quarter to half the quantity of black pepper, according to taste, and a small bit of mace or a pinch of powdered nutmeg.
It is by many considered as the choicest of all mushrooms, and is indeed a delicious morsel when quickly broiled over coals, seasoned to taste with salt and pepper and butter melted in the gills, and served hot on buttered toast.
The baffling I had been treated to by Scipio melted to nothing in this.
When used to stir the contents of the crucible the wax melted and allowed the gold or silver to fall out.
Sometimes they whitened gold with mercury and made it pass for silver or tin, and the gold when melted was exhibited as the result of transmutation.
The moment the ice touched the mercury, the latter melted and fell down in drops in the same way that a bar of lead or solder melts when it is touched with a red-hot iron.
The tin wasmelted in the fire and the mercury heated.
Owing to the fact that the specific heat or thermal capacity of mercury is only about one-thirtieth of that of water, it requires a considerable amount of melted mercury to produce the desired result.
The melted mercury was allowed to fall into a tall ale-glass of water, the temperature of which had been reduced as nearly as possible to the freezing point.
It was then poured into the melted tin, and at the same time a red powder enclosed in wax was projected into the amalgam.
To clean your traps, boil them in ashes and water, rinse clean in hot water, then dip in hot water with melted beeswax floating.
Some boil their traps in willow bark; others dip their traps in melted tallow or beeswax.
The trap had been a dry set one, and by reading the signs I found some snow had melted and dripped from an overhanging branch on to the junctions of the jaws.
At Nanterre a woman had had a baby born with a serpent's head; the lightning had struck the church at Rueil and melted the cross on the steeple; a were-wolf had been seen in the woods of Chaville.
And, at the thought of the knife at her neck, all her flesh melted in an ecstasy of horror and voluptuous transport.
And so they were; the citoyenne Rochemaure proved tender-hearted and wasmelted to think of Évariste's and his mother's sufferings.
The gentle melancholy in the tones of her voice would have melted a stone.
It seemed as though joy and woe no longer moved side by side, but meltedtogether into one.
He spoke to her in gentle tones, and her heart, paralyzed with suffering, melted at his addresses.
A broad, well-kept path led through the forest, which melted imperceptibly into the park.
When the sun poured his fierce rays, like melted lead, upon the open parts of the park and garden, this spot was always refreshingly cool.
She seized his hand and would have kissed it; he snatched it angrily away, but the tears that she had shed had melted her very heart.
At Mutra he found five great idols of pure gold, with eyes of rubies; and a hundred idols of silver, which, when melted down, loaded a hundred camels with bullion.
Here we have, at the time of a great catastrophe, Scriptural truth come down to us in the burning matter whichmelted and preserved it, in the persecuting language of Epiphanius and Jerome.
A modern German writer is much melted by Sastrow's Protestantism, and apparently finds it quite a touching spectacle.
I subsequently disposed of one of my two shirts for what it would fetch; the six florins had melted away, and I wanted the wherewithal to buy dry bread.
That fortune, nevertheless, melted away, and Leveling, worried by her creditors, was obliged to quit her house with nothing but what she stood up in.
The Coyotes yelped their dawning song, but they melted into the hills when the light was strong.
Now spreading his national colors and his honor-marked ears, he bounded into his hard-won freedom, strong as ever, and melted into the night of his native plain.
Just so; and in this very furnace of affliction has my heart of flint, and my loose sand of character, that would not fix itself to any good, been melted down by God, to what you see.
The greater his struggle the more swiftly the treacherous soil melted under his pounding hoofs.
With consummate tact, Hervey had chosen those of his men who were the oldest, the hardest, the least liable to be melted by her persuasions.
Miss Virginia and I shook hands over it, and between us we got the old lady back to the hotel, nearly melted with fright.
Bees hummed in the clover, and she began to sing with them, and her low, humming song melted into the roar of the storm.
The sun rose swiftly, and the thin scarf of morning cloud melted away, leaving an illimitable sweep of sky arching an almost equally majestic plain.
Monica turns upon him an appealing glance from her large soft eyes that would have melted any heart but that of a brother's.
