On the completion of each layer, or sometimes two layers, the necessary measured amount of oil is evenly sprayed by hand over the pieces from cans provided with suitable perforated outletsusually long tubes.

Especially did he appear interested in her silky brown hair, and in the color of her cheek, faintly sprayed and soft, like the downy bloom of a butterfly wing.

As the wind ruffles its myriads of leaves, the sparkle of the sunbeams on the undulating mass produces the most wonderful combinations of light and shade; feathery sprays of a delicate pale green curl gracefully all over the field.

[A]Published 1842 Too frail to keep the lofty vow That must have followed when his brow Was wreathed"The Vision" [B] tells us how With holly spray, He faultered, drifted to and fro, 5 And passed away.

The light of the lamp she carriedfor it was already dark within the towercaught the spray of the fountain outside as she passed the narrow slits that served for windows.

My only guide, a brook whose joyous song, Seemed like a boy's light-hearted roundelay, As down it rushed, the leafy bowers among, Scattering o'er bud and bloom its pearly spray A beauteous semblance of life's opening day.

Far down between two rows of the blossoming trees he could see the girl reaching up to break off a pink-sprayed bough.

The enemy artillery searched our wood and works, and the line of trees occupied by the French was plentifully sprayed with shrapnel, but they failed to locate our guns, or get anywhere near them, or indeed to cause a single casualty either to man or horse.