sympathetic ink
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How to use sympathetic ink in a sentence
The fire of inspiration brings out, as it were, designs traced beforehand in sympathetic ink.
Amiel's Journal | Henri-Frdric AmielA solution of muriate of copper forms a yellow and sympathetic ink, and acetate of cobalt a rose or purple.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million | Sarah Josepha HaleThe first page looked as if it had been written over with some sort of sympathetic ink; but not a word could be deciphered.
Saxe Holm's Stories | Helen Hunt JacksonIn all minds it lay written, but invisibly, as in sympathetic ink; at his word it starts into visibility in all.
This appears to have been the last detected attempt to use a sympathetic ink upon the race-course.
Science and the Criminal | C. Ainsworth Mitchell
British Dictionary definitions for sympathetic ink
another term for invisible ink
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