"Mineral water" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Boss, "but you've mixed your dates. Old Panzy struck the east coast about four hundred years before our friend Flagler annexed it. And he wasn't in the hotel business. Exploring was his line. He was looking for a new kind of mineral water that he was going to call the Elixir of Life. Well, in some ways Panzy ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... and wear black broadcloth at all seasons, as being what they have from their youth considered outward and visible signs of "respectability" in the financial sense. What they need is a place where they can have their livers roused without exercise, and this the mineral water does for them; where they can see a good deal going on and many evidences of wealth, without moving from their chairs; and where their financial standing will follow them; and for this there is perhaps no place in the country like Saratoga. Newport has not nearly as much solidity. It ...
— Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 • Edwin Lawrence Godkin
... could do was to look at the empty bottles, hold their noses and drink mineral water. Ain't it awful, Mabel? Anyway, everybody had a good time, so what care they for gibes and jeers? Many the time have I held a champagne cork to my nose, closed my eyes and dreamed that I was having a time. Well, to continue about our show. Wilbur says it will never go, because they ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... unknown elements. Within two years of the invention the authors announced the discovery of two metals, rubidium and caesium, closely allied to sodium, potassium and lithium in properties, in the mineral lepidolite and in the Durkheim mineral water. In 1861 Sir William Crookes detected thallium (named from the Gr. [Greek: thallos], a green bud, on account of a brilliant green line in its spectrum) in the selenious mud of the sulphuric acid manufacture; the chemical ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various
... and windows wide open. Table covered with remnants of luncheon, floor ditto with mineral water and other bottles, very empty. In the shade outside, fishermen lying on the grass gazing at the river, upon which the sun strikes fiercely. Keeper and keeper's boys standing sentinel up and down ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... the recent pile by the surgeon, or clipping off the fleshy projections. The bowels should always be kept regular in any form of piles by small doses of Glauber's or Epsom salts taken in a glass of hot water on rising, or some mineral water. In case these do not agree, extract of cascara or compound licorice powder may be taken at night. Equal parts of sulphur and cream of tartar is an old-fashioned domestic cathartic of which a teaspoonful may be taken each morning to advantage ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various
... civilians on the road all day, except the Red Cross people. The big square was completely barred off from general traffic and was surrounded with grenadiers. We got through the town and stopped at the only cafe we could find open, where we had a bottle of mineral water and talked over what we should ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... at night for a few nights, followed in the morning by epsom salts or some mineral water like Abilena or Hunjadi is useful. The following is a ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... morass that formed the border of the gulf on its south side. These two very narrow places were called the gates of the pass, and were about a mile apart. There was a little more width left in the intervening space; but in this there were a number of springs of warm mineral water, salt and sulphurous, which were used for the sick to bathe in, and thus the place was called Thermopyl, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the westernmost of these narrow places, when the Thessalians ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... table was set and the duck ready before Haltren could hunt up the jug of mineral water which Tiger had buried ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers |
