Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The juice of the lemon.
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Examples
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His eyes gazed at the mathematical equations with wonder, with every blink drinking in the lemon-juice ink code that Catherine Alexander had broken.
Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
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His eyes gazed at the mathematical equations with wonder, with every blink drinking in the lemon-juice ink code that Catherine Alexander had broken.
Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
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His eyes gazed at the mathematical equations with wonder, with every blink drinking in the lemon-juice ink code that Catherine Alexander had broken.
Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
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You can make lemon-juice or lemon-aide, its your choice.
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A small fiery tumour then ensues, which will not soon subside, unless the patient has been, as it were, naturalized by residence; but the pain is much allayed by lemon-juice.
Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008
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A small fiery tumour then ensues, which will not soon subside, unless the patient has been, as it were, naturalized by residence; but the pain is much allayed by lemon-juice.
How the mosquitos of Smyrna were fond of tender dilettante skin back in 1764 AYDIN 2008
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A week earlier, before heading out with the boat-sledge teams to Terror Camp, Surgeon Goodsir told Crozier that the lemon-juice antiscorbutic, their only defense against scurvy now — as weak as it had become — would run out in three weeks or less, depending upon how many men died between now and then.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Drachma pieces for the chrysanthemums, aspirin for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Spiro, having speared three large fish, was roasting them on a grid, absorbed and scowling, putting now a flake of garlic, now a squeeze of lemon-juice or a sprinkle of pepper on the delicate white flesh that showed through where the charred skin was starting to peel off.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Stir these into half a pint of white sauce, simmer three or four minutes, then add two yolks of eggs, as for Allemande, and the last thing a half-teaspoonful of lemon-juice, and just enough glaze to make the sauce the shade of a pale Suède glove.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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