aqua-fortis

There was no escape after that; Jim had to buy some of those plums, whose acid was of the hair-lifting aqua-fortis variety, and all the rest of the day he stewed them, adding sugar, trying to make them palatable, tasting them now and then, boasting meanwhile of their nectar-like deliciousness.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

He has a forehead of native brass, and I will write upon it with aqua-fortis.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Further use of it produces no new disengagements of nervous force; the victim may double, quadruple his dose, but he might as well expect further ebullition by adding more aqua-fortis to a satisfied nitrate as to develop with opium exhilarating currents in a tissue whose combination with that drug have already reached their chemical limit.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

Take a solution of aqua-fortis in water, apply it to the black, and it will produce a beautiful scarlet.

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

Indian merchants who, if a piece of money were given them, by applying their nose to it, defined its quality to a nicety, without touchstone, balance, or aqua-fortis.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 Various

There was no escape after that; Jim had to buy some of those plums, whose acid was of the hair-lifting aqua-fortis variety, and all the rest of the day he stewed them, adding sugar, trying to make them palatable, tasting them now and then, boasting meanwhile of their nectar-like deliciousness.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

There was no escape after that; Jim had to buy some of those plums, whose acid was of the hair-lifting aqua-fortis variety, and all the rest of the day he stewed them, adding sugar, trying to make them palatable, tasting them now and then, boasting meanwhile of their nectar-like deliciousness.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

He painted, or, better still, he engraved in an incisive way that was sharp, like aqua-fortis.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

Congreve and Dumas Fils, have pointed their arrows at her; satirists, from Archilochus and Simonides to Hogarth and Gavarni, have poured out their aqua-fortis for her.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Sometimes the usually cold neighbor unites itself to oxygen in the closest bonds; in which case the two together form that powerful liquid, _aqua-fortis_, of which you may have heard, and which corrodes copper, burns the skin, and devours indiscriminately almost everything it comes in contact with.

The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854