Extracts
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Examples
- We shall offer a few brief extracts from some of these decisions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The blood is largely used for making albumen for photographic uses, as well as in sugar refining, for meat extracts, and for fertilizers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We copied it from the Elegant Extracts. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These will be found in the following extracts from one of the note-books, and consist of Edison's instructions to be carried out in detail by his experimenters: Take, say, 25 lbs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client is. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The following extracts from Bulletin No. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Her Extracts have been returned, and the expression of her matured views on the subject of the Moonstone has been forbidden. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The following will make a splendid article, and you know what you are getting without paying high prices for weak extracts put up in deceptive little panel bottles. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Here are some extracts from Carlyle descriptive of that unfortunate feast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of the vanilla extracts sold for flavoring purposes are adulterated with Tonka beans and other adulterants, some containing not a particle of vanilla. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With the above our extracts must close, although we have given but a few of the interesting experiments tried at the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then turning round its body, it extracts the white albuminous substance with its posterior and narrow pair of pincers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE (in Extracts from her Diary) LIMMERIDGE HOUSE, Nov. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Extracts of lemon and vanilla are most frequently used; nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Such culture media are found in beef blood, gelatine, beef extracts, meat broth, milk, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have set these extracts down, as I found them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And may those Extracts (Miss Clack fervently hopes) sound as the blast of a trumpet in the ears of her respected kinsman, Mr. Franklin Blake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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