ebullition

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• All the country round here was once in a high state of ebullition, and the lakes I have mentioned are the craters of extinct volcanoes CHAPTER XIII JOURNEY UP COUNTRY--ANECDOTES OF BUSH LIFE Our friends accepted an invitation to go up country to visit a cattle station and also a sheep run, and to spend a week or so in the bush. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• As soon as the ebullition is established, the grain is taken up with a large skimmer, and put to drain into a large basket hanging over the kettle; and when the grain has been totally taken up, the fire is increased so as to bring the water to boil again, until reduced to two-fifths, which degree of concentration is not rigorous, and the distiller may augment it as his experience shall direct. —  The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain
• The volcanic substances are no longer in a state of ebullition, they have caught fire, and we are undoubtedly menaced by an approaching eruption Well, captain," said Pencroft, "we shall witness the eruption; and if it is a good one, we'll applaud it. —  The Secret of the Island
• Four truculent bands had joined in the outbreak at the agency and lost their leader, half a score of mad-brained young warriors, scores of their best war ponies, but, what was of most consequence, had burned up the whole store of agency provisions and, with their squaws and children, were now lurking among the trackless Bad Lands to the north, outcasts upon the face of the frozen earth The only Indians whose condition was not made materially worse as a result of this ebullition were the Brulé band of Two Lance, who had taken advantage of the general confusion to slip away to their old head chief Sintogaliska. —  Under Fire

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