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Take 1-1/2 ounces of harts-horn, 1 ounce camphor, 2 ounces spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces sweet oil, 8 ounces alcohol.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid
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One ounce oil of spike, half ounce origanum, half ounce amber, aqua fortis and sal amoniac 1 drachm, spirits of salts 1 drachm oil of sassafras half ounce, harts-horn half ounce.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses P. R. Kincaid
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Take half a pound of ising glass, as much harts-horn, an ounce of cinamon, an ounce of nutmegs, a few cloves, a pound of sugar,
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Or take half a pound of harts-horn grated, and a good capon being finely cleansed and soaked from the blood, and the fat taken off, truss it, and boil it in a pot or pipkin with the harts-horn, in fair spring water, the same things as the former, _&c.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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One pair of calves feet, a well fleshed capon, and half a pound of harts-horn of ising-glass.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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= Ammonia = may be taken as _liquor ammoniæ_ (harts-horn), as carbonate of ammonium, as 'Cleansel,' or as 'Scrubb's Cloudy Ammonia.'
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She had fallen down and cut her wrist terribly with a piece of a bottle containing some harts-horn which she had to buy at the druggist's on her way home from Mr. Cobb's.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872
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I'll tear the furbelow off your clothes, and when you fwoon for vexation, you flia'nt have a penny to buy a bottle of harts-horn.
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