He carried out the singeing business most effectively. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The process of singeing their wings intrigued him vastly. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
It kept forcing Wilson back, singeing his hair and eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Mercies] Reference
Leaving burn marks across his body and even singeing his hair. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2008] Reference
She looked down at his hands, at the ink singeing his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
I could not learn whether it was kept so by clipping or singeing. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
It is not necessary to describe the gas singeing machine in detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Plate singeing is the oldest of these methods and is still largely used. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Then her hair was ablaze, the flames licking her ears and singeing her eyelashes. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
Energy beams probed vaporous reaches, singeing atmosphere and soil, seeking enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
The wild men passed it from hand to hand, examining it, and singeing themselves in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
An intense pain assailed him at the knees, and he could smell the singeing of his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference
After singeing, wash the skin thoroughly with a cloth and warm water, as shown in Fig. 5. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference
She dropped across the fire and lay there without moving, her coat singeing in the embers. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
Although I smelt my coat-tails singeing at the fire, I had not the power to withdraw them. From Wordnik.com. [Somebody's Luggage] Reference
One twig at a time, he coaxed the fire to grow, all but singeing his fingers in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
He shifted right immediately and fired again, singeing the trees and lighting several boughs. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
Many believe that singeing seals up the cut ends of the hair, which they affirm bleed when cut. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
But let me try if I cannot play round this bright, this beamy taper, without singeing my wings!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Jets of steam shot forward from his nostrils, singeing the foliage of the bushes on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
Some seek out fame like moths around a flame, singeing their wings hoping to become butterflies. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Fame Fatale] Reference
As the singeing proceeds, the feather ends are plucked out and a. cursory washing given the fowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
She touched the torch to the brush, and the pyre flamed high, heating her face, singeing her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Ceridwen snapped her fingers and a burst of flame appeared next to Tommy's head, singeing his hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Woods Out Back]
This exploit, which Drake called "singeing the king of Spain's beard," delayed the expedition for a year. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Pyrography has its birth in intarsia, where singeing was sometimes employed as a shading in realistic designs. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
I was still more astonished, on approaching them, to find the nature of the food they were singeing and scraping. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827] Reference
When he entered the courtyard of his house he found the suitors flaying goats and singeing swine for the midday feast. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
We had to kind of stay away from the door panels and the windows, because we were actually singeing on the door panels and windows. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2002] Reference
And it would be (Jury had said) a brief meeting indeed, since Cyril could walk through flames without singeing his burnished copper fur. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Silent]
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