Soapstone and similar mineral substances are added to the finished soap to increase its weight.
Fry on a soapstone griddle greased with suet, salt pork, or bacon.
A soapstone griddle is best, but an iron one will do, and many a savory pancake has come from a humble frying-pan.
Just then Anthony came in with jugs of hot water and a huge soapstone on which he said the young man was to stand while he dressed himself.
I saw Patty and Mark drive away early this morning, with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson wrapping the girl up and putting a hot soapstone in the sleigh, and consid'able kissing and hugging thrown in.
He warmed a soapstone in the embers, and taking off Mrs. Boynton's shoes, put it under her cold feet.
Ground talc or soapstoneis used as a filler for paper, paint, and rubber goods, and in electrical insulation.
In the United States, Vermont and New York are the leading producers of talc and Virginia of soapstone slabs.
Soapstone is cut into slabs for laundry tubs, laboratory table tops, and other structural purposes.
One could tell by the soapstone lamps in the huts that famine was near.
Some figures of birds rudely carved in a sort of soapstone were fixed along the top of the walls of the Fort, and have been removed to the Cape Town museum.
Fragments of soapstone bowls were discovered, some with figures of animals carved on them, some with geometrical patterns, while on one were marks which might possibly belong to some primitive alphabet.
In former days, food used to be cooked over these lamps in soapstone pots, which hung from the roof.
Iron saucepans, too, bought at the stores in the colonies, are now used instead of soapstone pots.
The room was warm; the soapstone heater was doing effective work.
The former is the common soapstone (specimen 71), which is a confused mass of crystals lying in all directions, and with no visible stratification in the small mass.
The micaceous soapstone rocks on both sides of the trail are covered with petroglyphs, from which the gap takes its name.
From the appearance of ancient soapstone vessels which have been found in the same region there is even a possibility that the Indians had some knowledge of smelting, as the Spanish explorers surmised (oral information from Mr W.
Steatite or soapstone was still fashioned into crude bowls and the perforated net sinkers or pot boilers we have noted previously, as well as into short tubular pipes which are found in the region of central Georgia.
Vessels of soapstone or sandstone were added to the skinlined pit or basket, and the flat pieces of steatite with a large hole bored in them may have been used with these containers for stone boiling.
Illustration: Straight tubes of steatite or soapstoneare the earliest known form of pipe.
Not only were pipes made of soapstone found in these mounds, but two or three were found precisely of the form mentioned by Adair, with the fore part running out in front of the bowl (see Fig.
There was plenty of nice soapstone there that was so soft you could cut it with a pocket knife and could dress it off with a plane for a nice smooth finish.
I shaped two pieces of soapstone to look like round millstones and set me up a little mill that worked just fine.
I wish I had a piece of that good old soapstone from around Franklin, so I could carve some toys like I used to play with for my boy.
The representations of the insect are among the earliest sculpture of stones known, and were cut in various materials, steatite a species of soapstone being one of the earliest used.
There is great abundance of soapstone (steatite) at Broughton; much of it of good quality, and some of it is remarkably pure.
Always use plenty of soapstone in replacing an inner tube.
With the former some pieces of broken soapstone pipes were found, and with the latter one polished celt.
Rather so," replied the Captain, "but hardly more so than the two little drinking-cups we carved out of the same kind of soapstone that we made the lamp and pot of.
Thus you see how important it was that I should have found the soapstone in season, and made a pot of it, else we should not only have been obliged to go without boiled food, but likewise without water.
The spot from which we looked was not far from the summit of the highest peak in the range of the soapstone hills.
We had passed the spring and rivulet of which I before spoke, and were now entering upon a narrow gorge leading through the chain of soapstone hills among which the village was situated.
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