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The process, I said, is not the turning over of an oystershell, but the turning round of a soul passing from a day which is little better than night to the true day of being, that is, the ascent from below, which we affirm to be true philosophy?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

The plaster and mortar used at Jamestown was made from oystershell lime, sand, and clay.

New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson

And he handed Johnny the oystershell to gather the tears because he wanted to store up more salt.

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son 1947

He bent over, picked them up, put them in a little oystershell and explained,

The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son 1947

_What Lime Is. _ There is abundant evidence that pulverized limestone, or lime marl, or oystershell, or any other form of carbonate of lime, corrects soil acidity and helps to make a soil productive.

Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

He does not employ common chalk, but prefers a little portion of the friable part of an oystershell.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

He does not employ common chalk, but prefers a little portion of the friable part of an oystershell.

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Since foothill soils tend to be acidic, also add 5 pounds of oystershell per hundred square feet.

The Union - All Categories 2008

"To be called on to believe that the decillionth of a grain of charcoal or oystershell, is capable of producing hundreds of the most formidable symptom, and of curing, as if ny magic, the most inveterate diseases - while we can take ounces, nay pounds, of the same substance into our stomachs with no other inconvenience than its mechanical bulk - seemss so gratuitous an outrage to human reason that the mind instinctively recoils from the propositio."

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