For this purpose any good pipeclay may be employed. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
The master-at-arms, scarlet-uniformed, his white pipeclay trimming resplendent, stamped out of the guard cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Arrange the pieces of carpet on the board, and mark off the size of each part required with a piece of chalk or pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Some criminal lunatic strutting in pipeclay and mustachios was given his hour of authority and took the chance of his life. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
The lower division consists of pale-yellow, current-bedded sand and loam, with layers of pipeclay and occasional beds of flint pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
He cut a glorious calomel pill out of pipeclay, and then we concocted a black-draught of salts and bottled stout, with a little patent boot-polish. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841] Reference
There was no pipeclay here to be caked onto crossbelts and musket slings, no blackball to be used on boots and no grease and powder to be slathered on the hair. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
I took to be houses were simply heaps of pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
She covered herself with pipeclay for about one month. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont] Reference
There it was, with its white streak of pipeclay above it. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
No more the worsted bravery, the pipeclay, lace and scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [War and the Weird] Reference
Majorca lay below, glistening amidst its hillocks of pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
When she handled them the white pipeclay came off on her gloves and jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
More slow ticking, and more questions and answers about rations and pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [The Solitary Summer] Reference
No colonels to scan him with martinet eyes, and hint how to pipeclay a tarnish!. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
So, says I, 'Master Dixon, I ax your pardon, but I must pipeclay under your chair. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth] Reference
We drifted from pipeclay to a discussion on bicycling for women -- a dreary subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Solitary Summer] Reference
Long lines of white tents overtop the heaps of pipeclay, which grow higher from day to day. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
Wish we'd got something to do, if it was only to clean one's buckles and lay on a bit of pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference
I find, however, that he is a man of energy and good common sense, with very little of the pipeclay about him. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference
We don't feel the heat through the day, except when we are at the windlass drawing up the pipeclay, or while washing our. From Wordnik.com. [The Lifeboat] Reference
Their knapsacks were hairy, and their belts black, the latter suggesting deliverance from that absurdity of old, pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [In the Track of the Troops] Reference
The girls made one last frantic appeal to the man of buckram and pipeclay, but the etiquette of the Saxon Army was inexorable. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel and the Author, and others] Reference
The wash-dirt was white gravel, intermixed with heavy boulders, on a soft pipeclay bottom; its thickness being from 2 to 3 feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
Mohamad's Arab dependants and Wanyamwesi: the women had their faces all smeared with pipeclay, and lullilooed with all their might. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
He warned his young friend against the wiles of the "faker," who had been known to pipeclay a mottled animal and deceive the amateur. From Wordnik.com. [The Town Traveller] Reference
Golden Gully was already nearly worked out, but I got a little gold in it which was flaky, and sticking on edge in the pipeclay bottom. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference
"Yes, that's all very right; but we will presume you could not get any pipeclay and soapsuds; in fact, that there was nothing in the house. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,] Reference
Jim had turned whiter than his pipeclay. From Wordnik.com. [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid] Reference
To me they seem alike: all scarlet, and feathers, and powder, and pipeclay. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder; or, the inland sea] Reference
White pipeclay existed on the bed. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
What business had you with the pipeclay?. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
"Jigger the pipeclay!. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference
"Not enough pipeclay, sir.". From Wordnik.com. [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference
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