only 1 use
- A female Dodson, when in "strange houses," always ate dry bread with her tea, and declined any sort of preserves, having no confidence in the butter, and thinking that the preserves had probably begun to ferment from want of due sugar and boiling.1.6 -- Book 1 Chapter 6 -- The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming (19% in)
There are no more uses of "ferment" in The Mill on the Floss.
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