This, however, was full of dead bees, wasps, beetles, and leaves, well steeped and simmered, and would, therefore, require boiling and filtering through fresh charcoal before it could be made available.

"I am content," says Sir Thomas Browne, "to understand a mystery without a rigid definition, in an easie and Platonick description," and it is only through such easie and Platonick descriptions that spiritual truth can slowly be filtered into the popular mind.

She left the room, and behind her an impression of breeziness and health, of English girlhood and a certain bright cheerfulness which acts as a filter in social muddy waters.

The moonlight was too dim for Nelly Lebrun to make out the face of Lou Macon, but even the light which escaped through the filter of clouds was enough to set her golden hair glowing.

For tales of him had filtered to her young earsindefinite rumours of unworthy thingsof youth wasted and manhood threatenedof excesses incomprehensible to her, and to those who hinted them to her.

The room into which I was looking was lighted only by the rays which filtered between the slats of a closed shutter.

These spaces are filled with what is called the spleen pulp, through which the blood filters from its artery, just as a fluid would pass through a sponge.

Put the movable filter over this, and screw the lid, inverted, tightly on the end of the centre pipe.

For the determination of starch in barley the finely-ground sample is boiled for three-quarters of an hour with about thirty times its weight of a one per cent solution of salicylic acid, the resulting colorless opalescent liquid filtered with the aid of suction, and the starch therein inverted by means of hydrochloric acid.

I could hear the prisoners leaping from their couches within as the light of his cresset filtered beneath their doors.

Filter off the ether, and place some of it on a perfectly clean watch glass.

When the lecture was over, and the usual vote of thanks had been tendered and accepted, Mary Radford still sat there while the rest of the audience slowly filtered out of the large hall.

The bank had removed itself and its business to the underground vaults, and the large room on the ground floor, with its polished mahogany counters, brass grills and desks, loomed dim and indistinct in the light which filtered past the sandbags piled outside.

Drinking water is drawn from the town main and filtered before use.

Within, soft moss spread its verdant carpet, and in the sultriness a moist freshness breathed there, nourished by a fountain, which, having pierced the wall, fell tinkling behind the stone altar, and, dividing into silver ever-murmuring threads of pure water, filtered among the pavement stones, and crept meandering away.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE Drop by drop, a little brownish river is filtering under the loose window-sash.

The sun filtering across the branches converted the earth, carpeted with ferns and tender mosses, into a delicate golden embroidery.