The tar-stills are set in brickwork in such a manner that there is no over-heating of their contents.
The vapours formed in the various compartments are separately carried away and condensed, yielding at one and the same time those products which are obtained in the ordinary stills at the different periods of the distillation.
The pure phenol crystallizes out and is again distilled in iron stills with a silver head and cooling worm; the remaining oils, consisting mainly of cresols, are sold as "liquid carbolic acid" or under other names.
This is purified by fractionation in iron stills and distillation over caustic soda.
We read that in 1579 distillers were for the first time taxed in Scotland, and private stills forbidden; and the rural population did not altogether forsake their beer for the spirit until about the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Stills 75 The cost of making these seizures, and dealing with them, was put as follows: £ s.
Between this district and the Outer Hebrides, islands where no stills are to be found, a large secret trade is still believed to exist.
Those using heavy oils, such as paraffin oil (kerosene) and the denser constituents of rock-oil left in the stills after the kerosene has been driven off.
Probably most readers have heard of the famous contract with the gardener Philip Bater, who had a weakness for the output of stills such as those mentioned above.
In the widest possible sense it is whatsoever truly stills the hunger of the immortal soul.
If a farmer gave information as to where the stills could be found, his barns were burned.
If a distiller entered his stills as the law required, he was sure to be visited by a masked mob.
Sometimes his grist-mill was made useless, sometimes his stills destroyed, or a piece of his saw-mill carried away, and a command laid upon him to publish what had been done to him in the Gazette.
In due time the two stills arrived, and were shown in the manifest of the ship that brought them.
Bligh had demanded that he should accept from an official a receipt for "two stills with worms and heads complete.
The men at the stills were civil enough; they offered to lend me the still, and let me find a man to work it, &c.
Stills were made to refine the oil, which was sold to the consumer at seventy-five cents a gallon.
Then the worst about life on the river was that each poleman was paid a portion of his wages in whisky, and the rivermen seemed intent on drinking the stills dry.
Of Lowell Hardy, the artistic photographer, and the stills that he had made of the speaker as Clifford Armytage.
Thereupon he handed these Buck Benson stills to the man, whose face would instantly relax into an expression of pleased surprise.
Baird's eyes did not leave him for the stills until he had assumed a slightly Harold Parmalee pose.
The caller idled outside the railing, absently regarding stills of past Buckeye atrocities that had been hung upon the walls of the office by someone with primitive tastes in decoration.
But he liked Western stuff better--a lot better than cabaret stuff where you had to smoke one cigarette after another--and he wished she could see the stills in the Buck Benson outfit, chaps and sombrero and spurs and holster.
These were stills to be one day shown to a director who would thereupon perceive his screen merits.
And these astonishingly proved to be enlarged stills of Clifford Armytage, the art studies of Lowell Hardy.
Anyway, he wished he had his stills here to show her.
Now you just came over here to this desk and look at this fine batch of stills he had taken by a regular artist back in Cranberry.
He was not as attentive to the sermon as he should have been, for it now occurred to him that he had no stills of himself in the garb of a clergyman.
Christ stills the storm at sea, casts out the legion, heals the issue of blood and raises the daughter of Jairus to life.
And when thy hushéd breathing fills The shrine of quiet reverence, Then, too, a freeing angel stills The clanking of the chains of sense.
Full loud calls past eternity, But Lethe's murmur stills its roar, The one vague truth that reaches thee Is this--that thou hast lived before.
There are many modes of setting stills and bringing the fire up by flues variously constructed, but I have found the foregoing plan to afford as great a saving of fuel, and bringing the still to a boil as early as any other.
If wood be plenty, stills ought to be set on an arch, but if scarce, the bottom ought to be set to the fire.
How to prevent the Plastering round Stillsfrom cracking.
The best method of boiling two, three or more Stills or Kettles with one fire or furnace.
Then from his anvil the lame artist rose; Wide with distorted legs oblique he goes, And stills the bellows, and (in order laid) Locks in their chests his instruments of trade.
It seems that there are a lot of stills at work in the neighborhood.
Oh, I fancy there are plenty more stillsto be captured, Stapleton; and that's good fun in its way, though it involves a good deal of marching and hard work.
It is not for me to suggest that you might successfully raid half a dozen stills to-night.
I ain't enough account to own a little share in one o' the stills that does a purty poor business up here in the mountings.
I knew where some stills were of course, for I've seen a lot since I came up here, but I refused to tell them.
I know where some of your stills are, and I can find all the others.
But for myself I can't see why you should deliberately waste two days giving the moonshiners time in which to rip out their stills and bury them where even your sagacity will never find them.
Then they decided to camp there till they could get some provisions from down below, and while they were waiting, they asked me to tell them where the stills were so that they might raid them for meal.
Besides that, I doubt if you have any right to raid stills except under orders of the revenue officers, and they are too badly frightened to undertake anything of the kind.
You were sent up here to break up the illicit stills and you haven't found one of them yet and never will.
There may be no still and only a small company of boys in that cabin, but who knows how many stills there may be hidden around here, or how many moonshiners may be hiding about us, ready to massacre us?
If they are caught their stills and their whiskey are confiscated, they are fined heavily, and worse still they are imprisoned for very long terms.
I think now, as I told you at the time, that then, if ever, was your time to search out the stills and capture them.
We have never spied out your stills and certainly we have given no information to the revenue officers.
How do you know they haven't somestills secreted there?
Now, I know," he said, "that there are many stillsaround here.
Well when I found the stills in full blast I made up my mind to watch their operations for a time.
I should think it was as easy to catch a trader selling stills as selling whisky.
And, as vague forms writhe in despair, A native in phantastic dightStills Torture's hold in weazened tone, Black incense lifts its wand and flies To haunts where mattoids rave and swear.
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