In course of time the doles given took the form of money and food, including perhaps a pint of wheat for making frumenty.
For Rheumatism: Get a ha’porth of mustard and boil it in a pint of beer; find a dunderbolt (Cor.
Boil a pint of ale with a lump of butter in it, beat up two eggs with sugar and spices, then pour the boiling ale upon the eggs while stirring briskly.
Then he went to the Khedivial Club and ordered himself four courses, a pint of champagne and a glass of '48 port, his usual dinner being one course, double portion, and a pint of claret.
That thar pint's the very identical pint that I don't feel at all clear about, an' would like to have settled.
To every pint of water add either five grains of corrosive sublimate, or two and a half teaspoonfuls of carbolic acid.
A traveler by briskly stirring a tablespoonful of the charcoal into a pint of water, allowing it to stand five or ten minutes, and then filtering it through the paper, may venture to relieve his thirst in almost any part of the country.
Where walls are unpapered, re-whitewash with pure, freshly slacked quicklime, adding one pint of the best fluid carbolic acid to every gallon of the fluid whitewash.
Take a teaspoonful of hartshorn in a pint of water.
Gargle the throat frequently with a solution of a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of water, or thirty grains of chlorate of potash in a wineglass of water.
I had a pint o' mulled port ready, and I asked him if I should send for the doctor, and he only shook his head and shrugged his shoulders, as he might turn up his nose at an ugly physic.
The one who has still some money left starts them with a pint or half a pint of gin.
The Russian czar was a hard drinker, and on one occasion is said to have drunk a pint of brandy, a bottle of sherry, and eight flasks of sack, after which he calmly went to the play.
For twenty years he dined daily at Dolly's Chop-house, and at his solitary meal he always took a tankard of strong ale, a quarter of a pint of brandy, and a bottle of port.
Their frugal supper often consisted of nothing but half an anchovy, a small slice of bread and butter each, and half a pint of ale between them.
A pint of this liquor will make a pipe the colour of port wine.
Boil a pint of cream and give it any flavour you like.
Break up a cauliflower into separate little bunches, blanch them, and put them in butter, and a quarter pint of reduced stock.
New Century sauce in a quarter pintof good stock or gravy.
Reduce a pint and a half of cream to half its quantity, add a little pepper, and pour it over the potatoes.
Boil one pound of broad beans in salt and water, skin and cook them in a saucepan with a quarter pint of reduced stock and a hunch of herbs.
Put three-quarters of a pint of white sauce into a saucepan, and when it is nearly boiling add half a cup of concentrated fowl stock.
Bruise five ounces of freshly roasted Mocha coffee, and add it to three-quarters of a pint of boiling cream; cover the saucepan, let it simmer for twenty minutes, then pass through a bit of fine muslin.
Fry a small onion slightly in butter, then add half a pint of very good stock.
A dessert-spoonful of New Century sauce mixed with quarter of a pint of good thick stock makes a good sauce.
Two dessert-spoonsful of New Century Sauce to half a pint of game gravy or sauce, and a small teaspoonful of red currant jelly.
Fish Sauce Add one dessert-spoonful of the sauce to a quarter pint of melted butter sauce.
It had been the good old English dinner of Simpson's, preceded by two vermuths, accompanied by a pint of claret, and covered in the retreat by four maraschinos.
For you might as well take away a navvy's half-pint of beer as deprive a Chink of his shot of dope and his gambling-table.
Locked in a pint measure of air, there exists sufficient heat to raise several square inches of metal to glowing redness.
Now, if this pint of water is connected with the wires of a galvanic battery, although their extremities may be some inches apart, for every atom of oxygen liberated at one pole, an atom of hydrogen is set free at the other.
If a pint measure of oil of vitriol and an equal quantity of water are mixed together, the combined fluids will not fill a two pint measure.
Thick imperial pintglasses of mild ale stood on the counter before them.
A man who had neither wife nor child to support could manage even in these hard times to pay for his quart or two of liquor of an evening; but a pint mug was the utmost that those who had other mouths than their own to fill could afford.
Oi doan't believe as they will venture to attack the mill as long as the sojers be in Marsden; but oi wouldn't give the price of a pint of ale for Foxey's loife ef they could lay their hands on him.
The standard measuring cup referred to in modern cook books holds half a pint of liquid.
Alcohol irons have a tank attached to them which holds about a halfpint of alcohol.
When this is done, there is less than a pint of oil left in most stoves, and this will soon burn out without doing much harm, if clothing and water are kept away from the blaze.
He's been here before and he says you can always tell it by the soldiers walking around with little pint measures on their heads instead of hats, and little boys in beaver hats with no tails to their coats.
Each would have a pint of beer or claret, and be allowed one bottle of whisky a week.
But, brandy proving insufficient, he had recourse to opium, chloral, and bromide of potassium, a pint and a half of laudanum barely sufficing for the week.
If a Frenchman only sits down to a bite of bread and cheese he usually consumes a pint bottle of vin ordinaire with it.
They likewise frequently consume as much as a pint before each meal to create a false appetite and make themselves feel boozy while eating.
The Khan consumes not less than a pintof raw arrack during the dinner hour, and, not unnaturally, finds himself at the end a trifle funny and venturesome.
It was discovered that his only meal in the day had been the nightly supper at the "Chapter," at the fixed price of a shilling, with a supplementary pint of porter.
Towers, a political writer, who over his half-pint of Lisbon grew sarcastic and lively.
Put half a drachm of solid phosphorus into a large pint Florence flask; holding it slanting, that the phosphorus may not break the glass.
One cup of cooking molasses; one teaspoon of soda; one small teaspoon of salt, one pint of sour milk or buttermilk, one quart of bran, one pint of flour.
One tablespoon of barley flour in one pint of water.
Four tablespoons of oatmeal, one pint of water; boil for three hours in double boiler, adding water from time to time; strain.
One tablespoon of (washed) rice to onepint of water.
A weak antiseptic solution, prepared by putting two small antiseptic tablets into one pint and a half of warm water, is now applied to the body from the breasts to the knee.
Wet two teaspoons of arrowroot with a little cold water, and rub until smooth; then stir into one pint of boiling water and boil for five minutes, stirring all the while.
One tablespoon of flaxseed, one pint of boiling water; let stand and keep warm for one hour; strain.
Away from such conveniences, use the following method: Place two ounces of crystals of permanganate of potash in a pan and have a pintbottle of formalin near by.
Just before confinement send for one ounce of fluid extract of ergot and an original pint bottle of Squibb's Chloroform.
Mix onepint of bran, one-half pint of flour, and one level teaspoon of baking soda.
Whey is sometimes used in the preparation of sick babies' food and is prepared as follows: To a pint of fresh lukewarm cow's milk are added two teaspoons of essence of pepsin, liquid rennet or a junket tablet.
One tablespoon of oatmeal to one pint of boiling water, cover and let simmer for one hour.
Mix one-half pint of milk and four tablespoons of molasses.
That night some of the gruel was sent up in a half-pint mug by Mary for her father's supper.
On the Monday the 5th, as has been said, I mixed the powder in his gruel, and at night it was in a half-pint mug, set ready for him to carry to bed with him.
Did you observe anybody meddle with that half-pint mug afterwards?
I gave him a half-pint mug of it on Monday evening for him to take before he went to bed.
The old attorney rose early with good heart to speed the parting guest, and furnished him with a half-pint bottle of rum for the journey.
He wasn't to be comforted till they sent for a pint o' ale and showed him that his glasses had been took out.
Tommy Budd,' exclaimed Abraham, 'was that sort of man that he never took a pint himself without asking a chap to have a glass tew, if so be as he had the valley of it on him.
But it's wery himportant, me boy, vot you horders a pint of.
Remember, you have a 3-pint vessel and a 5-pint vessel and you must bring back exactly 7 pints.
In the third problem 4 and 9 are given, to get 7, the instruction being to "begin by filling the 4-pint vessel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
