saleratus

Example Sentences

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That was the man we saw the last time with Saleratus Joe, when they passed us in that strange automobile,” declared the girl earnestly.

From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Hill, Grace Brooks

Saleratus, worth in New York four cents a pound, sold at San Francisco in 1848 for fifteen dollars a pound.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

After contemplating his victim for a moment, Saleratus Bill mounted his own animal, and disappeared.

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

“What did the fellows look like?” he asked the chief, and quickly described in particular the fellow they knew as Saleratus Joe.

From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Hill, Grace Brooks

If they were in the car——” “Then Saleratus Joe got ’em,” said Neale promptly.

From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Hill, Grace Brooks