Since water is tasteless in itself and also an excellent solvent, it is especially useful in making beverages.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management"
Ministry of Education
Such matter is not dissolved by the usual cleansing agents used in laundry work, such as water and soap, but requires some special solvent to act on it.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management"
Ministry of Education
When you go to London it's just shopping and theatres and suppers and things; but just you try to keep a small bookseller's accounts for him, when they're hardly worth keeping, I mean, and collecting his debts when all his money's tied up in stock and your father's nearly bankrupt-not that he's ever solvent-you'd know what I meant then!
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions