Clean lead sheathing by a non-inflammable dissolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Laying of underground cables] Reference

Incapable of being duped! that horrid maxim is the dissolvent of all noble sentiments in man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modeste Mignon] Reference

He, however, was to learn that there is no greater dissolvent of rancor than intelligent curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Very seldom a disease is met with, that is permitted to run its course without dissolvent or cathartic means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference

Bruno was a wide-ranging dissolvent of the Aristotelian orthodoxies lodged in the universities and, though to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Pornography has been deliberately used as a social and political dissolvent during periods of revolutionary change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pornography and Deicide] Reference

Every year we see thousands rush to warm and cold springs that have the reputation of being possessed with dissolvent and cathartic properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference

As I was doing that, why -- two of my coworkers, one who I do remember was riding on an electric golf cart towards the dissolvent and being driven by another coworker.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: 4 Killed, 5 Injured in Navistar Plant Shooting - February 5, 2001] Reference

This constitutes a gilding dissolvent now in our market.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype] Reference

Protestant is the dissolvent -- the force making for ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleanor] Reference

December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce of February.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Aubrey speaks of May dew as "a great dissolvent" ( "Miscellanies," p. 183).    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Clemenceau] Reference

Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference

The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Existence of God] Reference

Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham] Reference

A truly capacious British history will not be the feeder of identity politics but its dissolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

If to some men misery is a tonic, on others it acts as a dissolvent; and the count was of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lily of the Valley] Reference

No such powerful dissolvent of organized society has been devised since men first began to aggregate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Federal Government and the Situation] Reference

But, alas! they only counted as the first dissolvent which set free more corrosive and detrimental acids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Durer] Reference

The substitution of private judgment for the teaching magisterium has been the dissolvent of all sects who have adopted it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

It is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch] Reference

Pikolino shoes are made in Spain using vegetable-tanned leather, water-based inks, dissolvent-free glues and biodegradable soles.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

It is very useful for those who suffer from evacuations and dysentery; it corrects those ailments and is good as a mild and dissolvent food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference

The Italian kingdom is the fruit of the alliance between the strong monarchical principles of Piedmont and the dissolvent forces of revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberation of Italy] Reference

Celles-ci se dissolvent ensuite en grande partie, mais, avant de passer l'tat liquide, elles tendent se briser en petits fragments transversaux.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

Yet few of these emancipated citizens of the world had permitted the dissolvent philosophy of the century to enter the very pith and fiber of their mental quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beginnings of the American People] Reference

A kind of intermediate dissolvent for which the time was most ripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference

La religiositat profunda de Maragall va actuar com un dissolvent poderós de l’integrisme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Els Anys Fundacionals D’Unió Democràtica de Catalunya] Reference

(and it was the effect of her whole head) looked as if it had been soaked, blurred, and made vague by exposure to some slow dissolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)] Reference

“Very dark and dissolvent.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowering Wilderness] Reference

Aubrey speaks of May dew as "a great dissolvent" ( "Miscellanies," p. 183). ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667]

May-Dew is a great dissolvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects] Reference

"was the great dissolvent of European conservatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of the Reformation] Reference