flask

• In order to renew constantly the air within the flask, the experimenter sucked with his mouth several times a day the open end of the apparatus, filled with the solution of potash, by which process the air entered his mouth from the flask through the caustic liquid, and the atmospheric air from without entered the flask through the sulphuric acid. —  A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
• I then mixed it with about twenty ounces of pure water in a flask, and, after allowing the powder to subside, poured off the water, which had all the qualities of lime-water. —  Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances
• Had I possessed another charge of powder, I might have rescued him, or, at all events, have avenged his death; but my flask was empty I stood in vain expecting to see him reappear, but the monster had got him firmly in his grip. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• The oil-flask was the Athenian's soapbox. —  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
• Then he remembered that he had dropped it when he dropped his silver flask, there in the road where he had first been startled by the Uhlans This train of thought depressed him again, but he resolutely put it from his mind, lighted a cigarette, and moved on Just ahead, around the bend in the path, lay the grass-grown carrefour where he had first seen Lorraine. —  Lorraine A romance

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