"Mastic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me to order the repast, and knowing that Lord Byron for the last two days had done nothing towards sustenance beyond eating a few biscuits and (to appease appetite) chewing mastic, I desired that we should have a good supply of at least two kinds of fish. My companion, however, confined himself to lobsters; and of these finished two or three, to his own share, interposing, sometimes, a ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... a company was formed for the purchase of a patent obtained for the manufacture of a durable paint and fire-proof mastic from prepared iron ore. Mr. Thatcher was chosen president of the company which at once entered on a vigorous prosecution of its business and has succeeded beyond the anticipation of its projectors. The paint is made of ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... central chain of Judea. On the western acclivity, the soil rises from the sea towards the elevated ground in four distinct terraces, which are covered with an unfading verdure. The shore is lined with mastic-trees; palms, and prickly pears. Higher up, the vines, the olives, and the sycamores amply repay the labour of the cultivator; natural groves arise, consisting of evergreen oaks, cypresses, andrachnes, and turpentines. The face of ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... ounces, mastic 1/2 an ounce. The two first-named ingredients are to be mixed first, and after the gum is dissolved, the mastic is to be added, and the whole allowed to macerate for a week. When great elasticity is desirable, more caoutchouc ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... attention. We do not say follow, but read; for it is indeed a very serious matter to recommend a varnish, seeing how many pictures are totally ruined by bad applications. We have been told that drying oil mixed with mastic varnish has been, though not very recently, used in our National Gallery. We hope it is a mistake, and that there has been no such practice. The effect must be to make them dull and horny, and to destroy ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... MASTIC. An excellent cement latterly introduced into ship-building, instead of putty and other appliances, to ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
