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Examples
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Richard watched in the light of the linseed-oil lamp sitting beside her as she took a few more stitches in the patch to the knees of a pair of his pants.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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Everywhere there is the smell of kvas, of apples, of linseed-oil and of leather.
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The finishes applied to the woodwork were surmised to be linseed-oil based stains and varnishes, "industry standards" of the day for fine woods.
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_ -- Give one pint of linseed-oil and ten drops of castor-oil, mixed together; follow this with small doses of salts once a day, for three or four days; give injections of water, one half a gallon to two ounces of tincture of arnica.
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When costiveness is present, give Barbadoes aloes, one ounce; croton-oil, ten drops; mix together; or give one pint of linseed-oil, to which add from ten to twenty drops of castor-oil.
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It is simply half linseed-oil and half lime-water shaken together.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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An acre of ripened flax yields from ten to twenty bushels of seed, and each bushel affords nearly or quite two gallons of linseed-oil.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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_ -- Give one pint of linseed-oil; clysters of soap and water should be freely used; and give plenty of linseed-tea to drink.
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It states that if 10 per cent. of burnt magnesia, or even baryta, or strontia, is mixed (cold) with ordinary linseed-oil paint, and then enough mineral oil to envelop the alkaline earth, the free acid of the paint will be neutralized, while the iron will be protected by the permanent alkaline action of the paint.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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= Lysol = is a compound of cresol and linseed-oil soap, and is much less toxic than carbolic acid.
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