Do we say caster or castor

caster 31 occurrences

"Dice is dull work for long," said one of the young men, indolently throwing himself back, and letting his caster fall upon the floor.

It contained, among other occupants, a certain Alpheus, a physician and caster of nativities, who had prophesied to himself a long life, and a death in the bosom of his family.

He sets his horses at inn and inn, and throws himself out of his coach at come the caster.

The pigeons flew from the platter, the caster rattled and rolled, the salt-cellars bounded to and fro, and the gravies, moved by some invisible disturber, spattered all over Mrs. Elias P. Critique's moire antique.

Rather amused, I spoke more softly, addressing the caster, and intimating in my blandest manner that I and my guests would feel under obligations if we could have the room to ourselves till after we had dined.

[Illustration: Fig. 233.Bell and Cannon Caster.]

"Well, you take the whites of two eggs and beat them up, and while you are beating you sprinkle rum over the egg, from a pepper caster, which you ought to keep clean to use for this and nothing else.

" In reviewing my diary, preparatory to its publication, I have occasionally eliminated an expression that seemed to be too personal,a sprinkling of pepper from the caster of my impatience,and I have also here and there added an explanatory annotation or illustration.

My! how it did jar him up, and shake him, like pepper in the caster, but that wasn't the worst.

After this event occurred, Lionardo Buonarroti received a letter from Jacopo del Duca, a Sicilian bronze-caster of high merit, who had enjoyed Michelangelo's confidence and friendship.

And what chance in the world for either with a waiter? Cake read the name and address upon the envelope freely as the hopeful bread-caster had taught her: Arthur Payson Noyes, National Theatre.

One man in particular is busily engaged in selling his store of blacking in the auction style, in a manner that would do credit to a real Down-caster.

F. M. Kreml, Don F. Striver (A) & Ruby Caster Rice (W); 10Dec64; R350913.

SEE Martin, Harry B. RICE, RUBY CASTER.

F. M. Kreml, Donald F. Stiver (A) & Ruby Caster Rice (W); 19Feb68; R429516.

RICE, RUBY CASTER.

Ruby Caster Rice (W); 1Jul74; R580519. R580520.

F. M. Kreml, Don F. Striver (A) & Ruby Caster Rice (W); 10Dec64; R350913.

SEE Martin, Harry B. RICE, RUBY CASTER.

F. M. Kreml, Donald F. Stiver (A) & Ruby Caster Rice (W); 19Feb68; R429516.

RICE, RUBY CASTER.

Ruby Caster Rice (W); 1Jul74; R580519. R580520.

Having noticed the confusion that often arose from the passing of the bottles about the table he designed when President a sort of silver caster capable of holding four bottles.

I am surprized that none of the Fortune-tellers, or, as the French call them, the Diseurs de bonne Avanture, who Publish their Bills in every Quarter of the Town, have not turned our Lotteries to their Advantage; did any of them set up for a Caster of fortunate Figures, what might he not get by his pretended Discoveries and Predictions?

Alas, that Yudhishthira becoming a dependant and a servant of Matsya, a caster of dice in his court, now calls himself Kanka.

castor 308 occurrences

Some of the most excellent parts of Theocritus are, where Castor and Pollux, going with the other Argonauts, land on the Bebrycian coast, and there fall into a dispute with Amycus, the King of that country; which is as well conducted as Euripides could have done it; and the battle is well related.

Afterwards they carry off a woman, whose two brothers come to recover her, and expostulate with Castor and Pollux on their injustice; but they pay no regard to the brothers, and a battle ensues, where Castor and his brother are triumphant.

Afterwards they carry off a woman, whose two brothers come to recover her, and expostulate with Castor and Pollux on their injustice; but they pay no regard to the brothers, and a battle ensues, where Castor and his brother are triumphant.

We had quinine, castor-oil, alcohol and ipecac in great quantities, as these were the principal drugs used in the limited practice in the home establishment.

Thus a few cloves, or grains of coffee, or a bit of pepper, eaten before a dose of castor oil, renders it less nauseous.

They gave me castor oil last night because you made me whine.

Castor Oil I don't mind lickin's, now an' then, An' I can even stand it when

A feller's life with castor oil.

An' every time if I complain, Or say I've got a little pain, There's nothing else that they can think 'Cept castor oil for me to drink.

I notice, though, when Pa is ill, That he gets fixed up with a pill, An' Pa don't handle Mother rough An' make her swallow nasty stuff; But when I've got a little ache, It's castor oil I've got to take.

thisan' right away!" Let poets sing about the joy It is to be a little boy, I'll tell the truth about my case: The poets here can have my place, An' I will take their life of-toil If they will take my castor oil.

There was one that lined a hatcase with a paper of Benlowes' poetry; Prynne bought it by chance and put a new demi-castor into it.

There are certain legendary names which when spoken or remembered evoke a second image and raise a double personality, Castor implies Pollux; Ninos, Euryalus; Damon, Pythias.

For several days the huge store bottle of castor oil was lost.

Whether they took more castor-oil, or rhubarb and magnesia; whether they squalled on those occasions or were very good.

(Les Petits Pere Castor)

(Albums du Pere Castor)

(Albums du Pere Castor)

Height, 3 ft. Castor Oil Plants.

Height, 2 ft. Ricinus, or Palma Christi (Castor-oil Plant, etc.).The foliage of these half-hardy annuals is very ornamental.

Well, le' me see: Firs',horhound drops an' catnip tea; Den rock candy soaked in rum, An' a good sized chunk o' camphor gum; Next Ah tried was castor oil, An' snakeroot tea brought to a boil; Sassafras tea fo' to clean mah blood; But none o' dem t'ings didn' do no good.

Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner Castor, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru.

The storm, which rose with frightful suddenness, was of short duration, but it left the Castor a helpless wreck.

The Castor was an American merchant-vessel, commanded by Captain Philip Horn, an experienced navigator of about thirty-five years of age.

But when the storm had passed, and the sky was clear, and the mad waves had subsided into a rolling swell, there seemed no reason to believe that any one on board the Castor would ever reach Valparaiso.

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