Staining and coloring matters were well known to the ancients at a very early period, witness the lustrous pigments on Etruscan vases more than two thousand years ago; and inks are often mentioned in the Bible.

Gold, silver, red, blue, and green inks were thoroughly understood in the Middle Ages, and perhaps earlier; and the black writing-ink of the seventh down to the tenth century, as seen in our manuscripts, was in such perfection that it has retained its lustre better than some of later ages.

How do you like my way of writing with two inks?

God bless you, and cause to thrive and burgeon whatsoever you write, and fear no inks of miserable poetasters.

The original letter is actually written in to inks,alternate black and red. LXV. TO MANNING, May 28, 1819, My Dear M..I want to know how your brother is, if you have heard lately.

"I should think I d-d-d-did," said Elia, "for I paid s-s-s-seven and sixpence for it!" Lamb's postscript is written in extremely small characters, and the letters of the two lines of verse are in alternate red and black inks.

" "I am willing to acknowledge they are; but they have nigger blood in them, notwithstanding; and they are, therefore, as much niggers as the blackest, and have no more right to associate with white children than if they were black as ink.

In the excitement consequent upon such a charge, Mr. Stevens, unnoticed by himself, had overturned a bottle of red ink, and its contents had slightly stained his hands.

An expression of intense horror flitted over his face when he observed it; but quickly regaining his composure, he replied, "It's only a little ink.

Some of the lines were written in blue ink, some in red, and others in that pale muddy black which is the peculiar colour of ink after passing through the various experiments of school-boys, who generally entertain the belief that all foreign substances, from molasses-candy to bread-crumbs, necessarily improve the colour and quality of that important liquid.

Some of the lines were written in blue ink, some in red, and others in that pale muddy black which is the peculiar colour of ink after passing through the various experiments of school-boys, who generally entertain the belief that all foreign substances, from molasses-candy to bread-crumbs, necessarily improve the colour and quality of that important liquid.

We must remember, however, that the inks of that period were frequently corrosive, as is proved by the state of many documents now made illegible through the gradual attrition of the paper by mineral acids.

I will go this instant for pen, ink, and paper; and, as you dictate, will I write a will that shall be even more binding than one that might come within the rules of the law.

Furthermore, it is a most important product in the making of linoleum, artificial silk, gunpowder, paints, soaps, inks, celluloid, varnishes, sausage casings, chloroform and iodoform.

Soot or lampblack is a very important material in Japan for making inks, paints, etc.

Printing inks.

Crime in ink, by Claire Carvalho and Boyden Sparkes.

Printing inks.

I haven't a doubt but that my analyses of the inks are correct and on one side quinoline was used and on the other nitrate of silver.

When the rough minutes were discovered years later, they were found to bear evidence, in erasures and the use of different inks, of having been tampered with.

As it was time for the writing-lesson, she stuck her finger in inks of different colors; and, when Bessie asked where her face was dirty, she quickly pointed out the places, each time leaving a large spot of ink.

The cattle were in charge of Ike Inks as foreman, and had been sold for delivery somewhere in the Strip.

One of our men had been taken sick, as we crossed Red River into the Nations, and not wanting to cross this Indian country short-handed, Inks had picked up a young fellow who evidently had never been over the trail before.

You see, my people are not driving this year, which is the reason that I am making a common hand with Inks.

Why, Inks here couldn't have cooked for my outfit that season, let alone rode.