sympathetic ink

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 Amiel

• A 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 Hale

• The 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 Jackson

• In all minds it lay written, but invisibly, as in sympathetic ink; at his word it starts into visibility in all.

  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History | Thomas Carlyle

• 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