Give them none but warm food, half a peppercorn rolled in a morsel of dough every night, and a little nitre in their water.

The veins of the palate should be opened, and a few drops of mixture composed of six parts of sweet nitre and one of ammonia, poured down its throat.

For this tree, which loves a warm climate, and a sandy soil, is yet wonderfully improved by frequent irrigation, and, singularly, the quality of the water appears of little consequence, being salt or sweet, or impregnated with nitre, as in the Jereed.

The ground here in many places was covered with a substance like the rime of a frosty morning; it tastes like salt, and from it they get nitre.

There is also a nitre and powder-manufactory, the former obtained from the earth by a very rude process.

If neither water of a sufficiently low temperature, nor ice, can be procured, then recourse may be had to refrigerating mixtures, of which the following is a good form: Common water, five pints; Vinegar, two pints; Nitre, eight ounces; Sal ammoniac, four ounces.

The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red.

They tried at the seminary by means of nenuphar and infusions of nitre to quench in you the desires of youth and its rebellious passion.

This, however, does not last long, but gives place in a few months to a taste unpleasantly like sweet spirits of nitre, which renders the wine undrinkable.

As to drink, dogs usually prefer clean cold water, and we cannot do harm by mixing therewith a little plain nitre.

If the cough be very troublesome and the fever does not run very high, the following may be substituted for this on the second or third day: Syrup of squills, 10 drops to 60; tincture of henbane, 10 drops to 60; sweet spirits of nitre, 10 drops to 60, in camphor water.

According to M. Landgerbe, a mixture of two parts nitre, two parts neutral carbonate of potash, one part of sulphur, and six parts of common salt, all finely pulverized, makes a very powerful fulminating powder.

For though thou wash thee with nitre and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.'

In the heart of one of the mummies he found about three drams of pure nitre; the heart being entire, this must have been injected through the blood-vessels.

"Charcoal, sulphur, and nitre, make gunpowder.

Before I quitted Kentucky, I made a point of visiting the celebrated and immense nitre caverns or catacombs of the limestone region.

Syringe with a strong decoction of green leaves and tender branches of the elder-tree, or with a solution of nitre made in the proportion of 1 oz. of nitre to each gallon of water.

Syringe with a strong decoction of green leaves and tender branches of the elder-tree, or with a solution of nitre made in the proportion of 1 oz. of nitre to each gallon of water.

For several months the Convention has recommended, invited, intreated, and ordered the whole country to occupy themselves in the process necessary for obtaining nitre; but the republican enthusiasm was so tardy, that scarcely an ounce appeared, till a long list of sound penal laws, with fines and imprisonments in every line, roused the public spirit more effectually.

For several months the Convention has recommended, invited, intreated, and ordered the whole country to occupy themselves in the process necessary for obtaining nitre; but the republican enthusiasm was so tardy, that scarcely an ounce appeared, till a long list of sound penal laws, with fines and imprisonments in every line, roused the public spirit more effectually.

Of this kind is his first mounting in the Smoke that rises from the Infernal Pit, his falling into a Cloud of Nitre, and the like combustible Materials, that by their Explosion still hurried him forward in his Voyage; his springing upward like a Pyramid of Fire, with his laborious Passage through that Confusion of Elements which the Poet calls The Womb of Nature, and perhaps her Grave.

For instance, the following verses out of Milton's Paradise Lost, b. ii. Of Heav'n were falling, and these elements Instinct with fire, and nitre hurried him taken singly, look low and mean: but read them in conjunction with others, and then see what a different face will be set upon them.

As last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight; and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground Had not by ill chance The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft.

The chief trade is with Britain: exports nitre, wheat, copper, and iodine; imports, textiles, machinery, sugar, and cattle.

Suddenly the king saw a flame at a distance which shone like the morning star; he said to himself, "In this storm and darkness this light cannot shine without art, or it may be a talisman; for if nitre and sulphur be sprinkled in the lamp, around the wick, then let the wind be ever so strong, the flame will not be extinguishedor may it not be the lamp of some holy man which burns?