24 examples of lime-juice in sentences

He was smoking a great cigarro of tobacco, and a goblet of lime-juice and water and rum stood at his elbow on a table.

Thither gentlemen and ladies used sometimes to go of an evening to sit and drink lime-juice and sugar and water (and sometimes a taste of something stronger), and to look out across the water at the shipping and so to enjoy the cool of the day.

After breakfast they had water to wash themselves, while their apartments were perfumed with frankincense and lime-juice.

{27b} The Messrs. Sturge have established there a large plantation of limes, and a manufactory of lime-juice, which promises to be able to supply, in good time, vast quantities of that most useful of all sea-medicines.

Before using the arrow, its poisoned point is dipped in lime-juice to quicken it.

"Wilkes," said the First Lieutenant, "one large whisky, one dozen soda, one dozen ginger-beer and two large bottles of lime-juice.

"Fresh lime-juice is better when one is feverish.

While the scourge continued weekly to extend its ravages throughout the city, it never crossed his threshold; and, except suffering in a slight degree from scorbutic affections, occasioned by the salt meats to which they were now confined, and for which the lemon and lime-juice, provided against such a contingency, proved an efficacious remedy, all the family enjoyed perfect health.

Arrack, Shiraz wine, and 'pale punch,' a compound of brandy, rose-water, lime-juice, and sugar, were drunk, and, at times, we hear of Canary wine.

This fish was cut in small pieces thicker and bigger than a domino, and steeped in fresh lime-juice for half a day.

I have seen a native take his fish by the tail and devour it as one would a banana; but the Tahitians cut up the fish, and, after soaking it in lime-juice, eat it with the taiaro.

There are two other epicurean sauces, one made of the omotu, the soft cocoanut, which is split, the meat dug out and put in the hue, the calabash, mixed with a little salt water, lime-juice, and the juice of the rea, the saffron, and allowed to ferment.

The fish was steeped in lime-juice, not cooked, and flavored with the cocoanut sauce and wild chillies.

As scurvy spread and deepened, the doctors made eager demands on Government for lime-juice, and more lime-juice.

As scurvy spread and deepened, the doctors made eager demands on Government for lime-juice, and more lime-juice.

Government had sent plenty of lime-juice; but it was somehow neglected among the stores for twenty-four days when it was most wanted, as was the supply of rice for six weeks when dysentery was raging.

The lime-juice was a medicine, a specific; but it could be of no real use till the frame was nourished with proper food.

I have shown certain British doctors demanding lime-juice when food was necessary first.

With the bedding the case was the same as with the lime-juice and the rice: there was plenty; but it was not served out till too late.

No more bedsteads, no more lime-juice, no more rice, no more beer, no more precious medicines were then locked away, out of the reach or the knowledge of those who were dying, or seeing others die, for want of them.

Unfortunately, their stock of lime-juice was now getting low, and the crew had to be put on short allowance.

We offered soap and candles as premiums to anybody who would buy our salt pork and dried apples, and taught the natives how to make cooling drinks and hot biscuits, in order to create a demand for our redundant lime-juice and baking-powder.

The market at last refused to absorb any more brackets and pickaxes; telegraph wire did not make as good fish-nets and dog-harnesses as some of our salesmen confidently predicted that it would; and lime-juice and water, as a beverage, even when drunk out of pressed-crystal insulators, beautifully tinted with green, did not seem to commend itself to the aboriginal mind.

I expected to have to return to the United States through Siberia, and I did not propose to put myself in such a position that I should be compelled to defray my travelling expenses by peddling lime-juice, cucumber pickles, telegraph wire, dried apples, glass insulators, and baking-powder along the road.

24 examples of  lime-juice  in sentences