Vial

Examples

• Take a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid and put into it little bits of sheet zinc as long as the acid will dissolve them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This second vial appeared to be filled with concentrated provisions and extract of Sink from the pantry. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• After a long look at it he put the vial down on the table, and resting his head in his hands, stared intently at it, as if he expected the vial to make some answer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After a vial was charged, he removed the coating, and found that, upon applying a new coating, the shock might still be received. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Repeated sparks were drawn from the key, a vial was charged, a shock given, and all the experiments made which are usually performed with electricity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Too much, and she would shatter herself, she would fill the fine vial of her soul too quickly, and it would break. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Wet the cork in the vial and with it wet the edges of the place to be mended. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Again he shook the vial. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A visitor to Edison’s laboratory tells how he found him holding a vial of some liquid to the light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Keep the glue in a vial closely corked, and when it is to be used set the vial in boiling water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• These were arranged in boxes, and were accompanied by a vial containing sulphuric acid, into which the match was dipped and thereby instantly ignited. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To avoid cracking the vial by exposure to such sudden heat use a thin green glass vial and hold it in the steam for a few seconds before immersing it in the hot water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• O, for some medicinal vial to purge unwholesome nature, and bring back the earth to its accustomed health! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He never noticed its loss until he reached the patient, and then wondered what could have become of the vial. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The vials of pharisaical wrath will be emptied on our heads for our share in this business, he said; but I defy every calumniator. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No, she added, in a softer tone; God mingles something of the balm of mercy even in vials of the most corrosive woe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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