It was strewed with the wrecks of retorts and alembics, with old crucibles, boxes and phials of powders and tinctures, and half-burnt books and manuscripts.
Don't you get into a bad habit of boasting,' retorts Durdles, with a grave cautionary nod.
He struggles into a sitting posture, and retorts upon her: 'What do you mean?
You know very well how to talk to Miss Fitzgerald," retorts she, provokingly, and with a bold attempt at a frown.
But you will have to take time to hear me," retorts Nevins, and he continues.
And a hundred men within call of us will tell you that Gorman Purdy killed fifty men in his time," retorts a bystander.
We will do nothing that will require your attention," sententiously retorts the miner.
Defiance flashed forth once more from the bath; and the First Consul finally ended their bitter retorts by spasmodically rising as suddenly falling backwards, and drenching Joseph to the skin.
The clearness and precision of Talleyrand's notes, and the telling charge of perfidy against England, made an impression which the cumbrous retorts of Lord Hawkesbury and the sailor-like diplomacy of Admiral Warren failed to efface.
Gas Carbon is formed in the retorts of the gas-house.
To make illuminating gas, fire-clay retorts filled with coal are heated to 1100 degrees or more, over a fire of coke or coal.
After removal from the island it is further purified by distilling in retorts connected with large chambers where it sublimes on the sides as flowers of sulphur (Fig.
Barnard keenly retorts on Vernon for his surreptitious use of whole pages from Heylin's works, which he has appropriated to himself without any marks of quotation.
As well ask, retorts Defoe, what it matters to us who is King of Ireland.
He was not slow to retort their civilities; but the retorts might very easily have sunk beneath the waters, while the assaults were preserved by their mutual support.
When coal is heated in retorts or ovens for making coke or gas a lot of ammonia comes off with the other products of decomposition and is caught in the sulfuric acid used to wash the gas as ammonium sulfate.
I have seen a girl all of a flutter with pleasure in a laboratory when a young chemist was showing her the retorts and the crooked tubes and the glass wool and the freaks of color which the alkalies played with the acids.
So I could have, if I wore boots and skirts like hers," retorts Miss Ethel sullenly.
The styles are quite distinct; you could not possibly compare them," Addie retorts more grandly still.
Wiser than you in yours, Addie," she retorts angrily.
He retorts upon the heathen the charge of infanticide, human sacrifice, and unnatural crimes, and contrasts therewith the purity of the Christian character.
The retorts are first heated to a temperature of about 600° C.
Each set of retortsconsists of six rows of six retorts each, one row above the other.
Experience, however, goes to prove that there is a limit to the diameter of the retorts beyond which the results become less satisfactory.
From this vessel the air passes by the pipe, G, and is distributed in the retorts as rapidly as possible at such a pressure that the nitrogen which passes out unabsorbed at the outlet registers about 15 lb.
As is shown in the plan, two sets of apparatus are worked side by side at Westminster, the seventy-two retorts shown in the drawings being divided into two systems of thirty-six.
The retorts so charged are closed at each end by a gun metal lid riveted on so as to be air tight.
The whole operation of charging and exhausting the retorts can be completed in from three to four hours.
At Westminster the pressure in the retorts is reduced to about 1½ in.
As soon as the evolution of oxygen is finished, the doors, K, and ventilators, L, may be opened and the retorts cooled for recharging.
The pumping now ceases, and the temperature of the retorts is raised to about 800° C.
The air is then forced along the pipe, E, into the small air vessel, F, which acts as a sort of cushion to prevent the baryta in the retorts being disturbed by the pulsation of the pumps.
He jerked his thumb at a complicated nexus of tubes, brass cylinders, coiled wires and glistening retorts which stood at one end of the broad work-bench.
Before them a broad, tiled bench held a strange assortment of test tubes, retorts and complex apparatus of glass and gleaming metal.
Here stood a complete electric power plant, for lighting and heating the works, as well as for current to use in the retorts and many powerful machines of the testing works.
Continuous processes, in which the heat necessary to bring about the interaction of the carbon and steam is obtained by performing the operation in retorts externally heated in a furnace; and 2.
No more safe as an adversary for that," retorts Wirt.
Why," retorts young Aaron, "I believe he was trounced with Braddock.
There is one exception; a popinjay personage named Rawls, retorts in a hectic epistle which, while conveying his resignation, avows a determination to welter in young Aaron's blood as a slight solace for the outrage done his feelings.
Whatever may be the gentleman's pedigree," retorts Hamilton splenetically, "you will at least confess it to be only a New England pedigree.
I should have found him what I tell you," retorts young Aaron stoutly, "a glaring instance of misplaced mediocrity.
Then, sir," retorts young Aaron, "you must permit me to withdraw my application.
Papa says I shall marry an earl," retorts Dorothy, with a toss of her pretty head.
Her nobility, sir, and the riches she draws from her colonies," retorts Master Philip, readily enough.
It is noteworthy that these Champion retorts are honourably free from the personalities of an age incredibly gross in the use of personal invective.
I might say the same," retorts Yorke, with about as mirthless a smile as it is possible to imagine.
Whereas, if the retorts are constantly kept red hot and in action, one half of the coal necessary to produce a given quantity of gas will then be saved.
The retorts are placed over each other in one or more rows; so that a certain number of them may be heated by separate fire-places.
If the operator neglects this, and suffers the fire-bricks to arrive at a bright white heat the retorts will soon be destroyed, and bad gas be produced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retorts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
