wood-spirit

Kostya cried involuntarily; ‘it is just like a wood-spirit shrieking.’

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

‘The wood-spirit does not shriek; it is dumb,’ put in Ilyusha; ‘it only claps its hands and rattles.’

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

The method is suitable for the estimation of acetone in wood-spirit, the spirit being diluted to 10 times its volume, and 5 c.c. of this solution employed for the determination.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

Thirty to 40 grammes of nitric acid are added to 1,000 grammes of wood-spirit, such as is generally used in photography, and the prepared pieces of glass are dipped into the bath, leaving them afterward to dry.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

On the evening of Shrove Tuesday the Esthonians make a straw figure called metsik or “wood-spirit”; one year it is dressed with a man’s coat and hat, next year with a hood and a petticoat.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 2. Burying the Carnival 1922

On the evening of Shrove Tuesday the Esthonians make a straw figure called metsik or "wood-spirit"; one year it is dressed with a man's coat and hat, next year with a hood and a petticoat.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Polunin dressed up as a wood-spirit, Kseniya as a wood - spirit's daughter -- out of a birch-grove.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

The earth was throbbing: it panted like a thirsty wood-spirit.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

They had learnt to keep their eyes wide open, for each had to hold his own against the wood-spirit, the rumbling forest, famine, and the marshes.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

The wood-spirit seized him roughly by the throat and threw him on the ground with such force that all Peter's bones cracked.

Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903