Distilled

Examples

• A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A dangerous but very extensively used illuminating liquid before coal oil was discovered was camphene, distilled from turpentine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They taught also how the gas should be distilled, condensed, cleaned, scrubbed, confined in retorts, and its flow measured and controlled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Peppermint, spearmint and other oils used are triply distilled and absolutely free of all impurities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'll be a double distilled saint. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• During the process of filtration the chicle is also sterilized, and comes from the machine as pure as distilled water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Priscus mentions mead in the place of wine, millet for corn, and a drink either distilled[272] or brewed from barley. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is thus described:--Dissolve 100 grains of crystallized nitrate of silver in 6 ounces of distilled water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Doesn't it look as if it were distilled from snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This yields one of the varieties of the spirit called arack when distilled. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What bitterness her mind distilled should and would be poured on her own head. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus Dr. Clayton, Dean of Kildare, Ireland, in 1688 distilled gas from coal and lit and burned it, and told his learned friend, the Hon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This crude liquid is collected in barrels and taken to a distillery, where it is distilled into turpentine and rosin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Water freed from impurities in this way is called _distilled water_, and the process is called _distillation_ (Fig. 19). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The image is latent, until it is developed by pouring over the plate a mixture of pyro-gallic acid in distilled water, acetic acid, and nitrate of silver. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Fermented liquors brewed, and spiritous liquors distilled, not for sale, but for private use, are not in Great Britain liable to any duties of excise. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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