"Fumigation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... storage-room is too dry, the grapes wilt and lose flavor; if, on the other hand, the atmosphere is too damp, the grapes mold. It is essential, therefore, to strike a medium between an atmosphere too dry and one too wet. It is possible that a light fumigation with sulfur or formaldehyde might help to keep down molds in these common storage grape-rooms, but as to the value of fumigation there seems to be ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... by the provisions he had laid in, he purchased a sufficient stock of coals and fagots to last him during the whole period of his confinement; and he added a small barrel of gunpowder, and a like quantity of sulphur for fumigation. ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... averse," replied Pao Ch'ai blandly, "to the odour of fumigation; good clothes become impregnated with the ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... isolation of the patient must be enforced until the case is terminated and fumigation has been ordered by the medical inspector ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague
... and tobacco-boxes, and an immense supply of ammunition, sat themselves down before the governor's house, and fell to smoking with tremendous violence. The testy William issued forth like a wrathful spider, demanding the reason of this lawless fumigation. The sturdy rioters replied by lolling back in their seats, and puffing away with redoubled fury, raising such a murky cloud that the governor was fain to take refuge in ...
— Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete • Washington Irving
... windward of their gardens, "their idea being that the smoke, by passing over the crops, will assist the ripening of them." Among the Zulus also "medicine is burned on a fire placed to windward of the garden, the fumigation which the plants in consequence receive being held to improve the crop." Again, the idea of our European peasants that the corn will grow well as far as the blaze of the bonfire is visible, may be interpreted ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... burning day and night, and forever casting two long black shadows. Lower down, between the bitts, was a locker, or sailors' pantry, kept in abominable disorder, and sometimes requiring a vigorous cleaning and fumigation. ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... done for," he said. "That fumigation cleaned out the vermin. But keep the tunnel pumped full of ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers
... dipping a twig of hazel in the fumigation, waved it north, south, east and west crying "Give me authority! Give me Ka-ta-la-derany;" and then kneeling down in front of the brazier, in a droning voice ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... us of these pests, or by the head of St Nicholas," said his namesake, "the hangman shall singe thy beard for a fumigation." ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... occupied with the Word of God, and to speak of it, and meditate upon it, so that the First Psalm declares those blessed who meditate upon the law of God day and night. Undoubtedly, you will not start a stronger incense or other fumigation against the devil than by being engaged upon God's commandments and words, and speaking, singing, or thinking of them. For this is indeed the true holy water and holy sign from which he flees, and by which he may be driven ...
— The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther
... several times, and so manipulating her pot as to produce the largest volume of smoke. This custom, which is so general throughout Cyprus, is supposed to avert the evil-eye; but I imagine that it originated during a period when the plague or some other fatal epidemic was prevalent in the island, and fumigation was supposed to act ...
— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker |
