"Half dollar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the outer layer of the skin, producing a blister, are treated much as a wound would be treated. The blister, if larger than a half dollar, should be opened near the edge with a needle which has been passed through a flame. The serum should be pressed out and the parts protected by a piece of gutta-percha that has been disinfected with some antiseptic solution; ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... without forgetting to get a nickel first. I usually go into one of those wooden overcoats and go through all the agonies of elbowing my way through half a dozen centrals into some one's ear several miles away, and then discover that I haven't anything but a half dollar. Then I have to stop and ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... Southwest. Behind this assemblage the newcomer tiptoed in vain to catch a glimpse of the cause of the excitement. Wherefore, he calmly removed an almond-eyed Oriental from a chair on which he was standing, tipped the ex-Cantonese a half dollar, and appropriated the point ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... this man's departure, I sent another messenger, and desired him to go to Giocha, to endeavour to see my old friend Allasana-Bociara, one of the King of Sego's messengers, who were sent as ambassadors, and tell him that I send him this grain of amber, and that piece [Footnote: One round half dollar.] of silver, as a mark of my being near him, and not to leave Giocha before he saw me. I had learnt his arrival there by a caravan of slaves ...
— The Journal Of A Mission To The Interior Of Africa, In The Year 1805 • Mungo Park
... rennet about the size of a half dollar. Take two quarts of good sweet milk, and warm it to the heat of new milk; sweeten to taste; flavor with nutmeg. Soak the rennet in three or four tablespoons of warm water a few moments; then place it in the middle of the pan of milk (with a string attached, and ...
— Recipes Tried and True • the Ladies' Aid Society
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