111 collocations for dusts

One of the reports says: "It is interesting to see the children sweeping or dusting a room, washing their dusters and dolls' clothes, polishing the furniture, their shoes, and anything which needs polishing.

The housemaid should now dust the furniture, blinds, ornaments, &c.; polish the looking-glass; arrange the toilet-cover and muslin; remove the cover from the bed, and straighten and arrange the curtains and counterpane.

Don't ask me, ma'am," said the girl dusting the books very hard, and tossing them down again with angry emphasis.

By the church door stood an old invalid soldier with a crutch and a long beard; the beard was rather red than white, for it was red altogether; and he bowed down almost to the ground, and asked the old lady if he might dust her shoes.

He turned from the cupboard, dusted his hands, and nodded gravely to the last arrivals.

After breakfast, except her attendance on her mistress prevents it, if the rooms are carpeted, she should sweep them carefully, having previously strewed the room with moist tea-leaves, dusting every table and chair, taking care to penetrate to every corner, and moving every article of furniture that is portable.

He bestirred himself in dusting his black clothes, washing his hands and face, and other acts characteristic of his studiously neat habits, and for a moment forgot his annoyance.

As the Host passed the people knelt and rose, and knelt again as the Archbishop camea sort of human tide, rising and kneeling and rising again, to dust their knees and stare about them, which was not without a symbolical meaning for those who know the history of the Church in Latin countries.

O, the good-wife will be singing When her meal is all but done Now all my bannocks have I baked, I've baked them all but one; And I'll dust the board to bake it, I'll bake it with a spell O, it's Finlay's little bannock For going to the well.

There was a tender light in the eye of the Quakeress as she dusted the chair, and sat Minnie at the table.

As for the warrant, he had burnt it in the empty fireplace in Griggs' room after making all secure, and had dusted down the black ashes so carefully that they had quite disappeared under the grate.

Lulu dusted the upright piano, and that was like Dwightin a perpetual attitude of rearing back, with paws out, playful, but capable, too, of roaring a ready bass.

" "Nay, but let me at least dust thy coat for thee.

William dusts his boots, adjusts his tie and heads for the most prepossessing farm in sight.

Seemingly still well pleased, he helped himself again to his snuff, and dusted his fingers carefully with his lace handkerchief.

Fill the dish with the fruit, dust the surface well with flour.

She would not let Mary dust the ornaments or arrange the rooms at all, but lovingly performed those duties herself, and soon became an ideal housekeeper, as Uncle John approvingly remarked.

It was evident to Mrs. Bardell, who was dusting the apartment, that something of importance was in contemplation.

My first work in the morning was to dust the parlor and hall and arrange the dining room.

With a cloth he dusted the feathers and tenderly wiped the eyes.

"You just wait till you hear the worst of it," answered Potts, as he confidingly dusted the shoulder of Westley's coat.

Chairs were being moved about, and the tinkle of ornaments on the mantelpiece announced that dusting operations were in progress.

my lord answered, settling his chin in his cravat and dusting the crumbs from his breeches.

"I'm very sorry," said Hardy, as he reverently dusted the muff on his coat-sleeve before returning it.

and he came to Riversbrook together, and the papers were there then, because I happened to touch the spring as I was dusting the desk, and it flew open

111 collocations for  dusts