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Example sentences for "carboys"

Lexicographically close words:
carbons; carbonyl; carborundum; carboxyl; carboxylic; carbre; carbuncle; carbuncled; carbuncles; carbuncular
  1. The two remaining carboys I emptied down without particular result, and after a time I felt it safe to shovel the earth back into the pit.

  2. At length I climbed out of the hole and dispersed the heaped-up dirt, then arranging the great carboys of acid around and near two sides, so that when necessary I might empty them all down the aperture in quick succession.

  3. This is best done by weighing the carboys in which the acids are generally stored before the acids are drawn off into them from the condensers, and keeping their weights constantly attached to them by means of a label.

  4. It is then a simple matter to weigh off as many carboys of acid as may be required for any number of mixings, and subtract the weights of the carboys.

  5. Yes, and those plugs remained in place for days, if not weeks or months, after the carboys burst, as indicated by the greater charring of the larger end of the plug.

  6. Another similar treatment with seven carboys of acid follows, and occasionally a fourth addition of acid is made.

  7. The tarry acid having been allowed to settle is drawn off, and seven carboys more of acid is added.

  8. To this quantity of distillate two carboys of oil of vitriol is added, and the oil and acid are agitated together for 20 minutes.

  9. The full carboys remained uninjured by the fire.

  10. The acid which condenses in the carboys of that row is apt to be somewhat contaminated with sulphuric acid, muriate of iron, or even sulphate of soda; but that in the second and third will be found to be pure.

  11. Three weeks ago twenty carboys of carbolic acid, with a considerable consignment of other antiseptics, surgical necessaries, drugs, and so forth were delivered to Dr.

  12. And now, if you please, as I have just five minutes left to spare, we will have a look at those carboys of carbolic.

  13. I can only protest against what I am free to regard as an act of brigandage, reflecting small credit upon your Service, and leave you, sir, to discover the whereabouts of the carboys for yourself!

  14. At first large glass carboys were used, but in 1746 the carboys were replaced by chambers of lead containing water at the bottom, and in these lead chambers the mixture of sulphur and nitre was burnt on iron trays.

  15. As it happens, Mr. Carboys did make a will.

  16. Upon Miss Morrison's acting on this suggestion, Van Nant told of an adventure Carboys had had in Persia some years previously.

  17. Lay you a sovereign to a sixpence, Mr. Van Nant, he gets to the bottom of it and finds out what became of George Carboys in forty-eight hours after he begins on the case.

  18. From the first I felt sure he was at the bottom of the affair, that he had lured Carboys back to the house, and murdered him; but it puzzled me to think what could possibly have been done with the body.

  19. It happened that on the night Miss Morrison got this book, and read it aloud for the amusement of her father and lover, Carboys had persuaded Van Nant to spend the evening with them.

  20. You said there was no motive, and, provided Carboys fell heir to something of which we know nothing as yet, here are two!

  21. They took the loaded carboys to the grounded craft and the professor sealed and soldered a cover on each of them.

  22. We'll load the lead carboys on the Wondership and then knock off.

  23. Also, there was carried a part of the leaden carboys which they had filled.

  24. We all do foolish things sometimes when we are young, Mr. Narkom, and George Carboys was no exception when he wrote the little thing I have just burned.

  25. Of course, Carboys treated it as the veriest rubbish--who wouldn't?

  26. Carboys succeeded in getting a clerk's position in town; Van Nant set about modelling clay figures and painting mediocre pictures, and selling both whenever he could find purchasers.

  27. But, in spite of this promise, he had walked away, and Carboys had never heard another word from nor of him from that hour until three nights ago.

  28. First thing I did I put those two carboys in the window with the lights behind them.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.