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... fall back from the doors and windows. Even King William was about to join the retreat when, in glaring fiercely round the tables, his eye chanced to fall upon the man whose family was so soon to be connected with his own. At the sight, the royal rage, already at boiling point, burst all bounds. Sticking his crowned head far in through the window, and forgetting that he had made a league with the MacDonalds to bring about a season of peace and good-will in the community, Mr. ...

— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith

... heads, halve and then slice up these halves exceedingly fine. Lay these in a deep dish, and pour over vinegar that has been raised to the boiling point in which has been mixed a little ...

— Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them • James John Howard Gregory

... preparing our breakfast, that is, for heating twenty-eight pints of water, though it always commenced from the temperature of 32 deg. If the weather was calm and fair, this quantity of fuel brought it to the boiling point in about an hour and a quarter; but more generally the wicks began to go out before it had reached. 200 deg. This, however, made a very comfortable meal to persons situated as we were. Such, with very little variation, was our ...

— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... said the mate, smiling. "One of the men has just found a little spring, where the water spurts up at boiling point." ...

— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn

... again when she saw his precipitous retreat. She had freighted every word with ill will, and knew how to raise his silent resentment to the boiling point. She rose and stepped ...

— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

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