Take one pound gum arabic, one ounce gum tragacanth, dissolved in two quarts of soft water, and strained.
To four drachms of lunar caustic, in four ounces of water, add 60 drops of nutgalls, made strong by being pulverized and steeped in soft water.
Then take one pound of cloves, half a pound of cinnamon, half a pound allspice, and boil in two quarts of soft water, and strain.
Take a little saffron, put it into an earthen vessel with a very small quantity of cold, soft water, and let it steep till the color of the infusion is a bright yellow.
Wash on the bottle, soaping and rinsing well, then boil in soft water.
Take twenty grains of cochineal and fifteen grains of cream of tartar finely powdered; add to them a piece of alum the size of a cherry stone and boil them with a gill of soft water in an earthen vessel, slowly, for half an hour.
The head should be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm soft water, and when dry the places should be rubbed with a piece of linen rag dipped in ammonia from gas tar.
For removing spots of grease from boards, take fuller's earth and pearlash, of each a quarter of a pound, and boil in a quart of soft water.
It should arouse an interest in securing a soft water as well as a clear water, and the advantages of the softer water, in so far as soap consumption alone is concerned, are seen to be not inconsiderable.
One must conclude that within reasonable limits there is little to choose between a hard and soft water for drinking purposes, although a change from a soft water to a hard, or vice versa, usually produces temporary derangements.
For washing purposes the value of a soft water is more marked.
This discussion is intended to suggest a comparison between a well of hard water and a surface supply of soft water, when both are available.
For any of these methods, soft water is better than water that contains a great deal of lime.
One-half gallon of soft water, one ounce Gum Arabic, one ounce Brown Sugar, one ounce clean Copperas, three ounces powdered Nut Gall.
When half of it has been used, put two pails of soft water to the rest, and stir it up well, from the bottom.
To make the wash, nearly fill the largest bottle with soft water, and add gum arabic enough to make a thin solution--about a teaspoonful of the lumps.
The head should be afterwards sponged with clean, soft water.
Wet the linen in soft water, rub it well with white soap, then scrape some fine chalk to powder, and rub it well into the linen; lay it out on the grass in the sunshine, watching to keep it damp with soft water.
Bruise and squeeze the juice out of common chick-weed, and to this juice add three times its quantity of soft water.
Put the peas to soak over-night in soft water, and float off such as rise to the top.
If this does not remove all stains, they should be washed a second time in similar water, and, when finished, rinsed in soft water in which a handful of common salt has been dissolved.
Soak dried beans all night in soft water, exchanging this in the morning for lukewarm, and this, two hours later, for still warmer.
Soak the peas all night in soft water, changing it in the morning for warm—not hot.
Soak a quart of dried beans overnight in soft water.
Soft water is best suited for boiling vegetables, and they require plenty of water; a little salt should be put in the saucepan with them, and the water should almost invariably be boiling when they are put in.
Tan may be removed from the face by mixing magnesia in soft water to the consistency of paste, which should then be spread on the face and allowed to remain a minute or two.
Milk of almonds made thus: Take of blanched bitter almonds half an ounce, soft water half a pint; make an emulsion by beating the almonds and water together, strain through a muslin cloth, and it is made.
Take the root and branch of dandelion, and steep it in soft water a sufficient length of time to extract all the essence; then strain the liquor and simmer until it becomes quite thick.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soft water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
