He gave us coffee and showed us maps at his Brigade Headquarters and then sent us on to the Regimental Headquarters, further down the hill, where they gave us rum punch, believing, as all Italians do, that an Englishman is never happy unless he is drinking alcohol.

Pour the milky juice into a clear glass vessel, add a little alcohol, and a white deposit will presently settle to the bottom.

"I gave them enough alcohol to induce stupor.

The berries are capable of undergoing vinous fermentation, and affording alcohol by distillation.

"Ah," says he to himself, "this man takes too much alcohol and tobacco and tea and coffee.

Fires were piled high in the furnaces, automobile-owners poured alcohol into their radiators.

It is quite a mistake to suppose that, when a man desires an alcoholic drink, he necessarily desires alcohol.

Such are Mycoderma aceti, which converts the alcohol of fermented beverages into vinegar; Micrococcus ureae, which converts the urea of urine into carbonate of ammonia, and Micrococcus nitrificans, which converts nitrogenized matters into intrates, etc.

After that it was easy to cut off the alcohol by degrees as he grew to like his eggs in milk the more.

" Similarly, Robert Boyle speaks of a fine powder as "alcohol"; and, so late as the middle of the last century, the English lexicographer, Nathan Bailey, defines "alcohol" as "the pure substance of anything separated from the more gross, a very fine and impalpable powder, or a very pure, well-rectified spirit."

One of the gravest dangers of wine-drinking is the power which the alcohol in it has to create a thirst which demands more alcohol.

Incidentally, the farmer may be the first to solve the fuel problem, for by means of cooperative distilling he could produce denatured alcohol for almost nothing.

[500] A strong alcoholic drink commonly made by diluting low-grade alcohol with water and flavouring it.

If peace of mind be the summum bonum, and religion is merely the science of self-satisfaction, they are right; and your wisest plan will be to follow them at once, or failing that, to apply to the next best substitute that can be discovered alcohol and opium.

We boiled eggs in the Etna the other night, and got too much alcohol in the saucer; and then, in the midst of the blaze and excitement, what should Madam Routh do but come knocking at the door!

It was coffee mixed with rum, but in unequal proportions, having more alcohol than black liquid.

Barrels holding alcohol of inferior quality, but well refined, were emptied into the basin.

It was the humor of the explorers, the first adventurers, and all succeeding ones, to teach them to like alcohol, and to hold their liquor like Englishmen or Americans.

He perspired alcohol.

"Hence, since from must of grapes we procure alcohol and carbonic acid, I have an undoubted right to suppose that must consists of carbonic acid and alcohol.

Upset his alcohol lamp,he said,and spilt the alcohol on his legs.

Had he kept clear-headed he was a smart fellow, and gave promise of doing well, but his head would not stand alcohol, and by it he was undermined in no time.

He told me for hours his dictumsno alcohol, no tobacco, no meat, no fish; merely raw fruit, nuts, and vegetables.

CHLOROFORM, a limpid, volatile liquid, in extensive use as an anæsthetic; produced by treating alcohol with chloride of lime.

Alcohol when spilt on the hand dries almost instantly and leaves a feeling of coldthe warmth of the hand boils the alcohol and turns it into vapour, and in doing so extracts the heat from the skin, making it cold; now, if the evaporated alcohol could be caught and compressed into its liquid form again you would have a refrigerating machine.