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"Boil" Quotes from Famous Books

... their own idea of justice and judicial methods, and trials by ordeal formed the test of innocence or guilt, the two commonest being by burning oil and poison. In the one case a pot was filled with palm oil which was brought to the boil. The stuff was poured over the hands of the prisoner, and if the skin became blistered he was adjudged to be guilty and punished. In the other case the esere bean—the product of a vine—was pounded and mixed with water and drunk: if ...

— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone

... were stars, shining rulers of fate! But as liquid as stars in a pool; Though now they're so dim, they appear, my dear Kate, Just like gooseberries boil'd ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... doing there? grinning like a monkey? Go directly and make the kettle boil, and set the table. And tell that Jim, that's always loafing around you, to make himself useful as well as ornamental, and open them oysters that were brought from Cove Banks to-day. Why don't you go? ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... bracket in the back room. I hammered a splinter of wood into the wall above it, and so made an arm upon which I could hang my little kettle and boil it over the flame. The attraction of the idea was that there was no immediate expense, and many things would have happened before I was called upon to pay the gas bill. The back room was converted then into both kitchen and dining ...

— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro

... the coffeepot from the kitchen and then kicks it away that he may boil the coffee in an old can as a courtesy to the young hobo; and sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs he sets out ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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