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  • Two years of paperwork, a lawyer, a few days in court, and a few "approved" claims that still ended up in the rejected pile, and I might get a check for 60% of the cost of a bottle of the low-grade turpentiny stuff.

    Liars Mother Jones RN 2008

  • Their flavor is especially complex, and may be dominated by the compounds that characterize peaches and coconuts lactones, generically fruity esters, medicinal or even turpentiny terpenes, and caramel notes.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Their flavor is especially complex, and may be dominated by the compounds that characterize peaches and coconuts lactones, generically fruity esters, medicinal or even turpentiny terpenes, and caramel notes.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • It was scrub jungle at first, with dense stunted bushes, and the only trees were half-wild mangoes, bearing little turpentiny fruits the size of plums.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • There was a sawpit in the yard, a favourite hiding-place for the boys, and the turpentiny scent of fresh sawdust had always been a thing to conjure with in the Solitary's memory.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • Added to which, these industrious little animals live upon the pine needles, and therefore suck all the strength from the most juicy part of the turpentiny pine, and, as we all know, turpentine is much employed in all kinds of embrocation used for rheumatism, lumbago, and sprains.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • For a month of preparation, while the house-fronts in the fashionable streets are escaladed by painters emulous of the perils of the samphire-gatherer's dreadful trade, the air is filled with the clean, turpentiny odor, and the eye is pleased with the soft colors in which the grimy walls remember the hopes of another spring, of another London season.

    London Films William Dean Howells 1878

  • He hurriedly built up a number of stones into a circle, and began to collect dry, twiggy stuff to start the blaze, wishing the while that he could see a fir wood with its ample supply of dead, turpentiny branches.

    Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870

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