We always carry tea, preserved milk, and preserved cocoa, and two or three gallons of paraffinfor cooking with.
It was a capital idea bringing that large spirit stove and the paraffin with us; even a native could not find any dry sticks this morning.
Bore out one end and fill the opening with lead and seal with paraffin so that the rod will float vertically when placed in water.
Mark upon one side of the rod a centimeter scale, and dip the rod in hot paraffin to make it waterproof.
It may require a few weeks of special care, during which cold water enemas at night, following evacuation by paraffin oil injection, may be needed.
He picks up the paraffin can briskly and goes towards the kitchen.
A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series.
A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.
A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.
It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin series.
Throw a sup more paraffin on, you, Pat; now stand back all of yous, an' look at the fine blaze.
Run round to the kitchen an' fetch the big bottle of paraffin off o' the long shelf there.
The theory of the use of oil and paraffinwashes is that the material soaks into the concrete and closes the surface pores against the penetration of water.
Paraffin has been quite widely used for preserving stone masonry walls for buildings.
Somebody had found a cheap paraffin lamp and lit it in the sitting-room, where they were all assembled, the front door having been closed.
One tiny portion only had been preserved from the flames--paraffin having been poured over the heap to render it the more inflammable.
I also invented devices for making, and introduced, paraffin paper, now used universally for wrapping up candy, etc.
The paraffin solidifies after 30 to 40 minutes, and then the bag with the radioactive contamination can be removed from the contents.
Another method involves using melted paraffin to uniformly coat the outside of the bag.
Paraffin oil in Unst was retailed in January at the rate of 2s.
What is the selling price of paraffin oil at your store?
I may say that I supply the women with sugar and tea, and with paraffin oil when have it.
We lighted the paraffin flare; supped on sandwiches and oily tea.
And how good the tea, though it tasted of nothing but sugar, smoke, paraffin and herring.
At one point I found a great pile of rifles over which paraffinhad been freely poured and then set on fire.
There were long trains of trucks filled with flour, sugar and coffee, over some of which paraffin had been freely poured and set alight.
I should say it's hydrophoby, from the bite of a dog; and he's been doctoring himself with that paraffin stuff till he's madder than ever.
One and seven to the greengrocer for potatoes, cabbage, and paraffin oil.
He was at the window, burning off with a paraffin torch-lamp those parts of the old paintwork that were blistered and cracked.
In addition to the articles already mentioned, they had to spend fourpence for half a gallon of paraffin oil, and to put sixpence into the slot of the gas-stove.
The light was dim everywhere, for there were only paraffin lamps, and by their feeble illumination many a difficult operation had to be performed by those London surgeons who one and all had come forward, and were now working unceasingly.
Hot water was tried, paraffin was poured into the lock, and it was only after a hammer had been used and a fire in a movable grate had been applied for a time that the lid could be opened.
She even poured paraffin into the letter box at a post office, and dropped an ignited match in after it.
The present-day tendency is to discard the use of subcutaneous paraffin injection and to employ grafts of cartilage or bone.
We have met with a case of paraffin epithelioma on the neck, and a similar type of epithelioma may be met with in a lupus or a burn of long standing.
The rear stairway was associated with the thought of Burke's cowardice, for he had chosen that way to accompany Stodger: whose shoe-sole had left the flattened fragment of paraffin there?
I followed the stairway to the bottom, and about half-way down found a bit of flattened paraffin about the size of my thumb nail.
The taper in the heavy iron candlestick must burn long enough to account not only for the drops of paraffin scattered about over the floor, but those that ran like congealing tears down the side.
Atkinson notes that here he found, as we had done before, an oil shortage from paraffin tins in the depot leaking, although there was no hole discernible.
The end had nearly come, and I was past caring; we had no food, except a few paraffin saturated biscuits, and Lashly in his weakened state without food could never have marched in.
A new stove was put in the galley, a lamp room and paraffin store built, and store-rooms, instrument, and chronometer rooms were added.
We had landed all our spare paraffinfrom the ship, and this gave us enough oil to use the primus for breakfast, provided we melted the ice over the blubber fire the day before.
Paraffin and oil drums filled up most of the hatch spaces, for the poop had been rendered uninhabitable by the great wooden cases containing two of our motor sledges.
The green tents just peeping through the snow, mottled and beaten in, as it were, all sledges well under, except for here and there a red paraffin oil tin and the corner of an instrument box peeping out.
Scott thought all this out and certainly overcame preliminary difficulties by getting so much pony food, provision, and paraffin out to One Ton Camp and Corner Camp.
Inside all had lashed up their bags and converted them into seats, the primus stove burnt with a curious low roar, and peculiar smell of paraffin permeated the tent.
The Norwegians use different kinds of paraffin wax and compositions of tar and other ingredients for overcoming this difficulty.
We have just made an arrangement with the Repettos to let us have meat twice a week for him in exchange for paraffin oil.
Ellen lit the paraffin stove and warmed the milk and I made the bread and then retired to bed again.
On special occasions we have requests for paraffin oil, of which, fortunately, we brought a good supply.
It was evening, and the big lamp that hung from the ceiling in the middle of the drawing-room breathed a faint fragrance of paraffin upon the inhabitants of the Sanatorium assembled beneath it.
In her dust-caked best clothes, she sprawled among the food and slept, and the paraffin lamp on the wall shed its uncharitable glare on her unconscious back.
The paraffin lamp shed its unwinking light on a scene that challenged irresponsible fancy with the reality of crazy fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paraffin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
