"Boil down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for laying eggs, Nay, even to make a soup of; One only needs to see her legs,— You might as well boil down the pegs I made the ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... day to "try out"—that is, to boil down the blubber of each whale. I found that the cooper and his mate had just finished filling up the casks from the coolers, and I was wanted, with others, to assist ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
... done in large shallow iron boilers over an open fire under a roof. I have known the Igorot to operate the crusher until midnight, and to boil down the juice throughout the night. Sugar-boiling time ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks
... currants, two pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, one teaspoonful of cloves, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, pepper and allspice. Boil in a porcelain saucepan until thoroughly cooked. Strain through a sieve all but the skins; boil down until just thick enough to run freely from the mouth of a bottle when ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette
... drafted the first part of Chapter VI., Fleeming and his friends, his influence on me, his views on religion and literature, his part at the Savile; it should boil down to about ten pages, and I really do think it admirably good. It has so much evoked Fleeming for myself that I found my conscience stirred just as it used to be after a serious talk with him: surely that means it is good? I had to write and tell ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson |
