"Methylated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... foreign chemists of the coast ports and adopted by the Chinese. Its advantage is that it converts a desire for opium into a taste for morphia, a mode of treatment analogous to changing one's stimulant from colonial beer to methylated spirit. In 1893, 15,000 ounces of hydrochlorate of morphia were admitted into ...
— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison
... dispensing closet at the back of the shop promised sheer defiance until Furneaux saw a bunch of keys resting beside a methylated ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... the laboratory and deposited him in the tank, shutting the air-tight lid and securing it with a padlock. For further security I locked the cupboard, and, when I had washed the floor of the lobby and dried it with methylated spirit, all traces of the previous night's activities were obliterated. If the police wanted to look over the museum and laboratory, they were now quite at liberty to ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman
... your pardon. I thought you were one of my own girls. Dorothy," she continued on the same breath, to catch the servant before she left the room, "we shall want some more methylated spirits—unless the lamp itself is out of order. If one of you could invent a good spirit-lamp—" she sighed, looking generally down the table, and then began seeking among the china before her for two clean ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... component units of food, another set of people would be fastening light wicker or venesta boxes athwart the sledge ends for carrying instruments and such perishable things as the primus stoves and methylated spirit bottles. These sledges were under the particular charge of Petty Officer Evans, and he took delightful pride in his office. What little gray dawn there was enabled him gleefully to inspect the ...
— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans
... remarked, "that we had some methylated spirits and a stove. It is ever so much quicker and not ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch |
