Dorothy," she continued on the same breath, to catch the servant before she left the room, "we shall want some more methylated spirits-unless the lamp itself is out of order.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Now you may blow the methylated out and make yourself useful, Dr. Conrad."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Sergeant Gavin Greig, who has been in Ceylon and knows otherwise, got it by the neck and put it in a bottle which he filled up with methylated spirit much to the poor brute's dislike as was witnessed by its contortions.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson