34 collocations for powdering

whatever you want to arrangeand permit me to powder my nose without being bothered, because I don't want people to think you are marrying a second helping to butter, and I never did like that Baptist man on the block above, anyhow.

They had powdered his hair with fine sawdust and daubed his face with chalk and dyes.

You're not looking as pert as usual yourselfyou haven't been powdering' your face, I hope!

So he flew to the mountain, and powdered its crest; He lit on the trees, and their boughs he drest With diamonds and pearls; and over the breast Of the quivering lake he spread A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head.

After all, war isn't always so different from the old days, when men had a time for fighting and a time for going in to powder their wigs!

Coleridge has powdered his head, and looks like Bacchus,Bacchus ever sleek and young.

"And there's the copse where the Lilies of the Valley powdered the ground in spring; and, I swear,"he put his head out with a sudden impulse"if that's not the very clearing where Calame, the French boy, chased the swallow-tail with me, and Bruder Pagel gave us half-rations for leaving the road without permission, and for shouting in our mother tongues!"

The snow had ceased falling; but a crisp north wind skimmed the drifts and powdered her dark habit.

CHAPTER XII PARTNERS Dust powdered his hat and clothes as Tex Calder trotted his horse north across the hills.

SATURDAY, SUNDAY On Saturday night Shall be all my care To powder my locks And curl my hair.

I powdered her neck.

Like a man who comes slowly back from the effects of ether, he perceived, one by one, the familiar aspects of the landscapethe delicate flowers powdering the plateau, the tasselled larches on the slope, the lofty snow-peaks still suffused with rosy morning light.

Cut the veal into cutlets, flatten and trim them nicely; powder over them a little salt and pepper; brush them over with the yolk of an egg, dip them into bread crumbs, then into clarified butter, and, afterwards, in the bread crumbs again; broil or fry them over a clear fire, that they may acquire a good brown colour.

" "And see how it has powdered the sea!

When the cloth was taken away the President gave 'All our Friends,'" Another visitor tells that he was received by Washington, and, "after ... half an hour, the General came in again, with his hair neatly powdered, a clean shirt on, a new plain drab coat, white waistcoat and white silk stockings.

I do not wish to kill thee like a slave, That taps men in their cups, and broach[es] their hearts, Ere with a warning-piece they have wak'd their ears; I would not like to powder shoot thee down To a flat grave, ere thou hast thought to frown: I am no coward, but in manly terms

Then when the Bird Fairy was settled down, she powdered the snow with her fingers until it was soft, and heaped it over the little creature, who was already asleep.

When light snow is first powdering the spruces and bending the delicate hemlock branches, dusky shapes flit out of the green cover.

This mastic is composed of fine lime from burnt marble, and finely powdered Travertine stone, mixed to the consistence of a paste, with strong linseed oil.

Have ready sufficient stewed fruit, the syrup of which must be boiled down until very thick; fill the vol-au-vent with this, and pile it high in the centre; powder a little sugar over it, and put it back in the oven to glaze, or use a salamander for the purpose: the vol-au-vent is then ready to serve.

A gentle shower of white flakes began, powdering the surface of everything.

This, in great measure proceeds from "some far-journeyed gentlemen, who, at their return home, powder their talk with over-sea language.

No Room for Hate Nothing to Laugh At No Use Sighin' Old Mister Laughter Old Years and New Pa and the Monthly Bills Peaks of Valor, The Practicing Time Pretending Not to See Safe at Home Satisfied With Life She Mothered Five She Powders Her Nose Simple' Things, The Sittin' on the Porch Song of the Builder, The Spoiler, The Summer Dreams Things You Can't Forget, The Three Me's, The To a Little Girl To an Old Friend

After a storm the snow will lie powdering the green beech trees, making the rocks gleam frostily and sharpening the savage ridges till they look like the jagged edges of stone axes.

The English had come first, in clouds of dust which powdered their uniforms and whitened their sun-baked faces.

34 collocations for  powdering