pipe-clay leather. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He had packed many a pipe-clay parade officer home for inefficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Six tripods, pipe-clay triangles, and bunsen burners or spirit lamps. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Soil] Reference
On the western side of the bay is a range of cliff like the pipe-clay cliff of. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
I have used a white pipe-clay dug up in the laboratory garden with complete success. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
The four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
Here, then, is a stag's head, some modelling or pipe-clay, some soft-soap, a hundredweight or so of common plaster of. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Buff cloth is generally cleansed by covering it with a paste made with pipe-clay and water, which, when dry, - is rubbed and brushed off. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
The pipe-clay tiles were infernally cold after the warm wash-house attic, and Skif clenched his teeth together to keep them from chattering. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
Alborough House, Dycer's Stables, in Stephen's-green -- every institution, literary, artistic, and commercial, was confiscated to powder and pipe-clay. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
This paste made regular “pipe-clay,” with which they manufactured bowls, cups molded on stones of a proper size, great jars and pots to hold water, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
The ground here consists of large beds of pipe-clay, in some places perfectly white, in others of a bluish or black colour, from the presence of iron pyrites. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829] Reference
This was the schooner laden with pipe-clay, out of which in a dangerous sea the captain and crew escaped in their own boat, as the lifeboat advanced to save them. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
"But you say there is nothing below this pipe-clay.". From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
The white is a very fine greasy species of pipe-clay, common all over. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1] Reference
Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
Cover the feathers with a paste made of pipe-clay, and water, rubbing them one way only. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife] Reference
Then, though with difficulty, he obtained the leave of the pipe-clay Duke to go to Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
He had got tired of pork and pipe-clay, accompanied with a too liberal allowance of the hide. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
'Oh yes, and it's your privilege to pipe-clay my cricket boots occasionally before First matches. From Wordnik.com. [A Prefect's Uncle] Reference
The earth employed is sometimes chalk, and at other times pipe-clay, gypsum, starch-flour, or ochre. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
The adulterating ingredient is usually pipe-clay, of which a liberal portion is substituted for sugar. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
This arises from the nature of the wash, it being merely a fine brown-white clay, or a species of pipe-clay. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
He wishes to extend his tour and see the European armies; but the Duke inexorably calls him back to pipe-clay. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
It absolutely fell over the cup of the panakin like thick cream, and stuck to the horses 'noses like pipe-clay. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
We found a quantity of a substance like pipe-clay in the bed of the river, similar to that mentioned by Mr. Oxley. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
The natives wear a neatly wrought bandage or fillet round the head and whiten it with pipe-clay as a soldier cleans his belts. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
If you break dried pipe-clay you see them in great numbers, and there are multitudes of them so small that you cannot see them. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The formalities of dress, the uniformity of pipe-clay and powdered hair, of polished steel and brass, can of course be overdone. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence] Reference
Cornish clay (a species of very white pipe-clay;) and the red sugar drops are usually coloured with the inferior kind of vermilion. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy] Reference
Turning the mouthpiece of his long pipe-clay out from him, he pointed it slowly to one after another, counting them as he so pointed. From Wordnik.com. [The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm] Reference
When it is dry, the cup is heated on a pipe-clay triangle over a Bunsen burner, or on a slab of asbestos in a muffle, to a dull-red heat. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
They might scrub, and they might rub, and they might pipe-clay, but they couldn't pipe-clay the insides of me, and they was black-and-tan. From Wordnik.com. [Ranson's Folly] Reference
She rose uneasily, placing upon her long, sprawling curls an old sun hat, very dirty, the brim misshapen by frequent wettings of pipe-clay. From Wordnik.com. [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference
It was plastered over with pipe-clay, and its existence was unknown to the cottagers, until a lady noticed the projection and asked what it was. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
And as they drives me out, the pipe-clay drops off me, and they laugh and shriek; and when I looks down I see that I have turned into a black-and-tan. From Wordnik.com. [Ranson's Folly] Reference
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