Quart

Examples

• Capacity may denote mere receptivity, like the capacity of a quart measure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He got a quart of ether and started to boil it over a naked flame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Pepper, 1 quart white Vinegar, 1 Gloucester Cheese, 1 keg containing 20 lbs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If a piece of potassium permanganate about the size of a grain of sand is put into a quart of water, the solid disappears and the water becomes a deep rich red. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These should all be in powder and dissolved in 1 quart of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Will somebody give me a quart pot? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Take two ounces of the tea and steep in a quart of water, with gentle heat, for two hours; strain off 1-1/2 pints into a quart bottle and add half a pint of alcohol and 4 ounces of sugar. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Dissolve the negrosine in a quart of hot water; dissolve the corrosive sublimate and dextrine in the remaining quart, and pour all together. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They took another quart apiece to drink each other's health in, and were staunch friends ever afterwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each other half an hour, who should brew the best quart of punch and drink it the quickest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Use two tea-spoonfuls to a quart of flour. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Cream in London costs from four to five shillings per quart; it can be bought in country places for two shillings, and even for less. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Quart of double stout a head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The first one-quart pump type of extinguisher appeared in the United States in 1907. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cider will be kept sweet if there is added to each barrel 1 quart of the solution immediately after the cider comes from the press. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Oh yes, he said, I have a couple of quarts more up at the house! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A good black ink can be made by boiling 3 pounds of logwood with sufficient water to leave a residue of 5 quarts. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Of these 15 had ensilage and straw only; 8 had ensilage and straw with grain, usually four quarts of bran added daily; and 9 ensilage, hay, and grain. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They sat still as mice, and Susie cried quarts, I know she did. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A single plant of this species will give eight or ten quarts of milk per day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I sent men out and culled two quarts of bugs, and tried every chemical I had to destroy them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I'll buy you quarts if you want it, but for heaven's sake don't have hysterics, for I've brought Jack Scott home to dinner, and. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The hermit only replied by a grin; and returning to the hutch, he produced a leathern bottle, which might contain about four quarts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• After he had been in the box an hour and a q uarter, he respired twenty quarts of pure nitrous oxide. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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