It all boils down to a matter of minutes, he'd heard his masters saying.
The natives all carry somewhere on their face, neck, hands, arms or feet the scars of these boils which they have had as children.
Recruiting boils down to using the local police's blacklist you get.
In the oxyhydrogen flame silver boils, forming a blue vapour, while platinum volatilizes slowly, and osmium, though infusible, very readily.
The wholesale jam manufacturers of the present day use this sugar; they boil the jam in vacuo and secure a product that will last a long time without deteriorating, but it lacks the delicacy and distinctive flavour of fruit preserved by a careful housekeeper, who boils it in an open pan with cane sugar to a less density, though exposed for a short time to a greater heat.