380 collocations for dress

When the teams came up we obtained some water and bandages with which to dress Wood's wound, which had become quite inflamed and painful, and we then put him into one of the wagons.

The term will cover building houses, making kettles, laying out streets, planning rooms, dressing hair, as well as making patterns for cushion covers and cathedral windows....

Most of them are so prepossessed against Friday, that they never settle any important business, or conclude a bargain on that day; in some places they do not even dress their children.

June 19.After sweeping, dusting, and washing and dressing the dolls, I read to the children "How the House was built."

She has also to dress the nursery and servants'-hall dinners, to prepare all fish, poultry, and vegetables, trim meat joints and cutlets, and do all such duties as may be considered to enter into the cook's department in a subordinate degree.

The consequences of this preposterous method of dressing boys, are diminutive manhood, deformity of person, and a constitution either already imbued with disease, or highly susceptible of its impression.

To dress a COD'S HEAD.

Their sleazy lives had wanted color and substance, and they found it in a cant of patriotism, in illuminating their windows after slaughter, in dressing their tables with helmets of sugar, (after the fashion of the White House,)delicate souvenirs de la guerre!

The fire which dressed his victuals, pumped up, by means of a steam engine, water for the kitchen turned one or more spits, as well as two or three mills for grinding pepper, salt, &c.; and then, by a spindle through the wall, worked a churn in the dairy, and cleaned the knives: the forks, indeed, were still cleaned by hand; but he said he did not despair of effecting this operation in time, by machinery.

Many savage nations have been found utterly ignorant of it, and many races had no other way of dressing their food than by exposing it to the rays of the sun.

On the first floor, in front of the broad staircase, was Seguin's so-called "cabinet," a vast apartment, sixteen feet high, forty feet long, and six-and-twenty feet wide, which occupied all the central part of the house; while the husband's bed and dressing rooms were on the right, and those of the wife and children on the left hand.

For a covering for his head, he shot a fox and dressing the skin fashioned himself a cap.

Well then, you'd draw your two-edged sword, an' dress your shield,like Gareth, the Kitchen Knave did,he was always dressing his shield, an' so was Lancelot,an' you'd fight all those dragons, an' kill them, an' cut their heads off.

Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

In the morning the Ladies of Tabor came and washed and dressed Caroline Siner's body and made it ready for burial.

An excellent way of dressing Fish.

A man may, if it please him, dress his thoughts in the tawdry splendour of a masquerade.

They dress hides with sheeps milk, thickened and salted.

The Indian women dressed his feet, and gave him food, wiped the blood from his limbs, and, after a consultation, they agreed to send word to the missionaries at Traverse des Sioux, that there was a white man sick and suffering with them.

I will suppose that thou art one of us; and that all five are actually brought to trial on this occasion: how bravely shall we enter a court, I at the head of you, dressed out each man, as if to his wedding appearance!You are sure of all the women, old and young, of your side.

She stood by quietly and calmly while the surgeon of the hunters dressed my hurts, observing exactly how the bandages and lotions were applied.

The spirit which now asperses the character of the Abolitionists, is the very same which dressed up the Christians of Spain in the skins of wild beasts and pictures of devils when they were led to execution as heretics.

We never come home without bringing her something; and then we have lots left to dress all our women like princesses; and they have nothing to do from morning till night but play the lady.

I learned then, and I state it now as a positive fact, that a woman's greatest happiness comes from dressing a little girl.

"It is a great institution," I said, or rather thought aloud, one beautiful summer morning, as my wife was dressing the baby.

380 collocations for  dress