You know, nitre is the most important stuff to make powder with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Germany] Reference

Mammoth Cave contains immense quantities of nitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The most important of these nitre soils are those found in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

As in orange ochre, powdered nitre may be employed in its preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a very evil heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference

Gum opium and nitre "found by Congress" was included in the chest for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drug Supplies in the American Revolution] Reference

Take of peppermint water 5 oz., wine 6 drachms, sweet spirits of nitre 1/2 oz.; mix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Give him spirits of nitre, in water which should not be too cold, for it would chill him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference

Where this is used as a cooling drink in fevers a little sweet spirits of nitre may be added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

The infusion should be made with cold water: when kept it forms a salt on its surface like nitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The leaves, which have no particular odour, throw up crystals of nitre on their surface when cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

It is prepared by calcining sulphate of iron, to which a little nitre may be advantageously added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

It now contains but little nutriment of any sort, but supplies some mineral salts, especially nitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

"The stalks and foliage contain a large proportion of nitre; and, when dried, burn like match-paper.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

It was the native nitre of the country on which they were occupied, and the test was its deflagration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Two teaspoonfuls of spirits of nitre, one teaspoonful paregoric, one wineglassful of camphor water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

This goes on until a regular incrustation is formed, and the soil is covered by a white deposit of nitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

"Prepared by deflagration in a crucible, one part of nitre with two of powdered tartar," proceeded Mr. Arcubus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

For this purpose the older taxidermists used a wash or powder, composed of equal parts of alum and nitre (saltpetre).    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

= — Lard, twenty-six ounces; white wax, two ounces; nitre and alum in fine powder, of each one-half ounce; alkanet to color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Potassium citrate, fifteen grains, and sweet spirit of nitre, fifteen drops, may be given in water to advantage three times daily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference

Powdered nitre moistened with water and applied to the face night and morning, is said to remove freckles without injury to the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

Pereira, in "Materia Medica," though intimating that natron is not to be confounded with nitre, says, in speaking of carbonate of soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

In looking from the ruins of the nitre works, to the left and some thirty feet above, you will see a large cave, connected with which is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter] Reference

Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference

They are the sites of old villages, and the nitre is found in the form of an efflorescence on the surface of different parts of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Take finely pulverized gum myrrh, bloodroot, and lobelia seed, or ipecac, of each half an ounce; gum camphor and nitre, of each two drams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

A redder hue is imparted by mixing the ochre with powdered nitre before ignition, the orange red being subsequently washed with hot water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference