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  • Shape balls into rings, and 2 at a time, drop into the boiling honey-water.

    Going Around in Circles Sarah 2009

  • Beautiful honey-water sliding out of long bleak skies, aloud the howling out of legendary youth, reading out its demands, its chain of truths.

    let out of my cage Jerry Ratch 2011

  • Shape balls into rings, and 2 at a time, drop into the boiling honey-water.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Sarah 2009

  • Psyllium seed husk can also be taken in the evening with dark grape juice or warm honey-water.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • For in fact honey-water is no more wholesome if it is mixed in the proportion of three times three, but it would do more good if it were in no particular ratio but well diluted than if it were numerically expressible but strong.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • To form this bottle of honey-water into _pulque_, all that is necessary is to put into it a little of the same material which has been laid aside till it became sour, which operates like yeast, causing the honey-water to ferment.

    Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

  • Then, after waiting upon my father, I soothed my throat with honey-water, ejecting it without swallowing: I might say gargle, but I won't, though I think the word is found in Novius and elsewhere.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • The _pulque_ gatherer, with his long gourd collecting-tube, and skin carrying-bottle, goes from plant to plant and gathers the _agua miel_ -- honey-water.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • This was not the only result of the experiment, for the honey-water which I boiled appeared so clear and tempting, that it struck me that I might prepare from it an excellent drink.

    Swiss Family Robinson 1882

  • The Water King flung himself on the _kissel_ and honey-water, and ate and ate, and drank and drank until he burst!

    Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

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