"You shall hear, ma'am, the story is a very short one: It is now about eight years ago, I was rambling through the south of France, and had just reached Lyons, where the confounded pavement, that sticks up like pears, with the point upwards, had compelled me to rest some days and recruit; for this purpose I installed myself in the pension of Madame Gourgead, Rue de Petits Carmes, a quiet house-where we dined at twelve, ten in number, upon about two pounds of stewed beef, with garlic and carrots -a light soup, being the water which accompanied the same to render it tender in stewing-some preserved cherries, and an omelette, with a pint bottle of Beaune, 6me qualite, I believe-a species of pyroligneous wine made from the vine stalks, but pleasant in summer with your salad; then we played dominos in the evening, or whist for sous points, leading altogether a very quiet and virtuous existence, or as Madame herself expressed it, 'une vie tout-a-fait patriarchale;' of this I cannot myself affirm how far she was right in supposing the patriarchs did exactly like us.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Before reaching the exhaustor, however, they pass through a cooler in which a quantity of tar and pyroligneous acid is collected.
"Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel"
Samuel William Johnson
These have not yet completed their useful course; the less corroded parts are cut into strips, punched with small holes, and varnished with a coarse black varnish for the use of the trunk-maker, who protects the edges and angles of his boxes with them; the remainder are conveyed to the manufacturing chemists in the outskirts of the town, who employ them in combination with pyroligneous acid, in making a black die for the use of calico printers.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
