quick-lime

Think of it, Willie, in a padded cell, the mother that bore you, with the lunatics sereechin 'an' screamin 'all around, an' the quick-lime eatin 'into the dead bodies of them that's beaten to death by the cruel wardens --

CHAPTER XIX 2010

It talks about the atomic formulas of common household chemicals such as quick-lime and carbonic acid, explains how atomic weights are calculated and shows simple chemical reactions.

Women Working, 1800-1930 Peggy 2007

It talks about the atomic formulas of common household chemicals such as quick-lime and carbonic acid, explains how atomic weights are calculated and shows simple chemical reactions.

Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007

Do thou say to me, ‘Shall I cast him in?’ and if I answer, ‘Cast him!’ throw the sack into the sea, so the quick-lime may be slaked on him to the intent that he shall die drowned and burnt.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Bodies were stacked in alternate directions as one would stack cordwood, and each layer was covered in a sprinkling of quick-lime. iii.

freakystylee Diary Entry freakystylee 2007

One was greeted by the over powering odour of quick-lime, dirty clothing, faeces and urine.

freakystylee Diary Entry freakystylee 2007

That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

One division of the burying-ground consists of a particular compost, which in nine days consumes the dead bodies to the bones: in all probability, it is no other than common earth mixed with quick-lime.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

But the grey dogs sleep within the quick-lime, in the slow corpse-fire. —

The Plumed Serpent 2003

We will bury their bodies in quick-lime, till their souls are eaten, and their bodies, and nothing is left.

The Plumed Serpent 2003