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Example sentences for "three gallons"

  • Take about three or four pounds of lean beef; cut it in pieces and set it on the fire in three gallons of water, with nearly one pound of ham, a small bundle of sweet herbs, another of mint, and forty peppercorns.

  • Bone the head and cut it in pieces; wash it extremely clean from the blood; set it on the fire in three gallons of water.

  • When dry, set the color by, put them into scalding hot water, that has salt in it, in the proportion of a tea-cup full to three gallons of the water.

  • The roots should be boiled five or six hours--the liquor should then be strained, and a quart of molasses put to three gallons of the beer.

  • Boil alum and salt in the vinegar, in the proportion of half a tea cup of salt, and a table spoonful of alum, to three gallons of vinegar.

  • This quantity took up three Gallons of honey; therefore be sure to have four in readiness.

  • To three gallons of water put six pounds of the best raw sugar; boil the sugar and water together for the space of half an hour, and keep skimming it as the scum rises.

  • These are pounded small and mixed together; three gallons of alcohol are then placed in an earthen vessel to receive the pounded gums, and the vessel is then to be frequently agitated.

  • Cut a leg of beef into pieces, and boil it in three gallons of water, with a sliced carrot and crust of bread, till reduced to half the quantity.

  • Mix this solution in three gallons of cold water, immerse the wool in it for several days, and then let it be washed and dried.

  • Then to the idle and careless habits of distillers, must be attributed any yield short of three gallons to the bushel of rye.

  • I have known potatoes distilled in this way to yield upwards of three gallons to the bushel.

  • Should, however, this not be the case, the liquid may be fined with whites of eggs, allowing one egg to three gallons.

  • Three gallons of claret-cup, allowing for each gallon four bottles of claret and four bottles of soda-water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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