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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
stock , 24.
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Examples
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Now what sea is this you have crossed, exactly, and what sea is it you have plunged more than once to the bottom of, alerted, full of adrenalin, but caught really, buffaloed under the epistemologies of these threats that paranoid you so down and out, caught in this steel pot, softening to devitaminized mush inside the soup-stock of your own words, your waste submarine breath?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Stir well and add a small teacupful of soup-stock or water.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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Take half a pint of it; heat it gently; add a gill of rich soup-stock and a teaspoonful of flour dissolved in a little cold water; simmer until it thickens, and serve.
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In case water be used instead of soup-stock, add a tablespoonful of butter just before spreading the beef upon the toast.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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I didn't know who Miss A.S. Armstrong was, but at any rate I would offer up to the stars what I possessed of Mrs. Plummet's soup-stock.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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There were twenty-five girls besides myself who carried away in their clothes each morning the odor of Mrs. Plummet's soup-stock.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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The earlier attempts to secure this result involved the use of enameled-iron soup-stock pots, fitted with special enameled-iron covers and closed with rubber gaskets.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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Or it may be cooked in a casserole or other covered dish, in which case a cupful or more of water or soup-stock should be poured around the meat.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
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'I made lab'ratory experiments in an' ir'n basin, with bichloride iv gool, which I will call soup-stock, an 'coal tar, which I will call ir'n filings.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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'I agree with ye intirely,' says th 'profissor,' I made lab'ratory experiments in an 'ir'n basin, with bichloride iv gool, which I will call soup-stock, an' coal tar, which I will call ir'n filings.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887
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