1453 examples of crusting in sentences

The January wind came up with a sharp, dreary sough into the defiles of the hills, crusting over the snow-sweeps with a glaze of ice that glittered in the pearly sunlight, clear up the rugged peaks.

Article V. The term "fair chase" shall not be held to include killing bear or cougar in traps, nor "fire hunting," nor "crusting" moose, elk or deer in deep snow, nor "calling" moose, nor killing deer by any other method than fair stalking or still-hunting, nor killing game from a boat while it is swimming in the water, nor killing the female or young of any ruminant, except the female of white goat or of musk-ox.

But it was impossible to retain his sailing qualities unless he periodicallyonce a year, at the leastcleared his vessel's bottom from the long, trailing plants and crusting barnacles which gather so rapidly in the tropical seas.

They rock peacefully as children in their cradles on the subdued swell that comes feebly in over the bar at the harbor's mouth, slowly crusting with barnacles, pulling at their iron cables as if they really wanted to be free, but better contented to remain bound as they are.

The shores and hills were thickly scattered over with large masses of a dark red-coloured sandstone covered with a crust of quartz; the latter substance was not however found in a crystallized state.

The rocks are of sandstone, in nearly horizontal strata, coated with a crust of crystallized quartz and coloured by a ferruginous oxide.

Seating herself upon a stool, she jerked off the lid of the kettle, and, to her horror and dismay, found not the favourite haricot, but a piece of cheese-rind, a crust of dry bread, and a cold potatoe.

"And this," said he, putting the remains of a crust into his wallet, "and this should have been thy portion," said he, "hadst thou been alive to have shared it with me."

He then took his crust of bread out of his wallet again, as if to eat it; held it some time in his handthen laid it upon the bit of his ass's bridlelooked wistfully at the little arrangement he had madeand then gave a sigh.

Prepare syrup to fill the hollow of the lake, to represent the water; having previously modelled in gum paste little swans, place them in various parts of the syrup; put it into the stove for three hours, then make a small hole through the paste, under your lake, to drain off the syrup; a crust will remain with the swans fixed in it, representing the water.

Were he to continue to indite panegyrical verses, like those to Clarendon, he stood a chance of having a few guineas tossed to him now and then by a patron, like a crust to an unfortunate cur.

It is really of a pie crust yellow of various tones.

Is there anything in the closet that we can get to eat?" "No," said Sally; "I've looked all through the closet; but there isn't a crust of bread, or a cold potato; nor anything to eat.

They do not have to pray for the extra crust when starvation hovers near; for the softening of an obdurate landlord's heart; for strength in temptation, light in darkness, salvation from vice; for a friend in friendlessness; for that miracle of miracles, an opportunity to struggling ambition; for the ending of a dark night, the breaking of day; and, oh!

The bread would have a good firm crust on it.

Dared you break the crust and bullyrag 'emhot, fierce and angry, what wide beaks buzz plain Saxon as ever spoke Witenagemot!

They crossed the Green River Mountains, breaking the crust of the snow and leading their animals, being reduced at the time to tallow and roots for their own sustenance.

So it was with James;in full tide of worldly energy and ambition, there had been forming over his mind that hard crust, that skepticism of the spiritual and exalted, which men of the world delight to call practical sense; he had been suddenly arrested and humbled by the revelation of a nature so much nobler than his own that he seemed worthless in his own eyes.

Nevertheless, most of the hunters did not approve of "crusting" the gamethat is, of running it down on snow-shoes in the deep mid-winter snows.

The never-abating action of the water has worn the rock into many fantastic shapes; and, crusting round the moss and fibres of the roots of trees, has given to it almost the appearance of a spar cavern.

If you'd like another crust o' bread or an extra half pint o' water you've only got to mention it.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded witha crust; some say, a very thin crust, such as might be got up by a skilful patissier, and over which gilded court-flies, and even scaraboei, may crawl with safety, butwhich must inevitably cave in beneath the boot-heels of a real, true, thinking man.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded witha crust; some say, a very thin crust, such as might be got up by a skilful patissier, and over which gilded court-flies, and even scaraboei, may crawl with safety, butwhich must inevitably cave in beneath the boot-heels of a real, true, thinking man.

So, then, Solidity's a crust The core of fire below; All may go well for many a year, But who can think without a fear Of horrors that happen so? Magnanimity Baffled.

A soldier, touched with compassion, takes a crust from his pocket to reward the dancing dog, which, overcome by the temptation, drops on his four legs, runs to him, and devours it, for which delinquency the old man beats him severely.

1453 examples of  crusting  in sentences