Do we say dyeing or dying

dyeing 117 occurrences

He there learnt the art of dyeing silk, in order to support himself while he pursued his theological studies, and also performed the part of historian to the community of which he had become a member; and he remained with the congregation during all the years of their residence in Holland, and attached himself with the most affectionate reverence to their generally beloved and respected minister.

because they will not bear Another dyeing.

For dyeing of cloths, and dressing, &c. 557.

Their garments are of home-grown hemp; and their artistic interests centre largely around the decorative designs produced in dyeing, weaving, and embroidery.

Hemp warp that has been laced in a banded pattern before dyeing, in order to produce decorative figures In a textile, is called binubbud.

Gambir is an article that is very useful in dyeing, and hence is frequently exported to Europe.

The art of dyeing the eyelids and eyebrows principally contributes to this.

The most beautiful arched form is thus obtained, and this, together with the dyeing of the eyelids, increases uncommonly the brightness of the eye.

The women increase their natural ugliness, by dyeing their hair and nails reddish brown with henna, and by tattooing their hands and arms.

The blood was streaming from Duroc's neck and dyeing the grey fur of his pelisse.

We also visited works, where the printing of cottons is executed in a superior style, besides a new process for dyeing cotton in the thread, invented by an Englishman, now in the establishment.

Now she is writing her new book, and now she is dyeing things canary-yellow in the white-oak dyefor the professor's salary is small, and a crushing economy was in those days one of the conditions of faculty life on Andover Hill.

The exhibit consists of a Universal calender, drying machines, patent creasing, measuring, and marking machines, and apparatus for bleaching, washing, chloring, scouring, soaping, dunging, and dyeing woven fabrics.

In the machine exhibited, which is designed for the bleaching, washing, chloring, and dyeing, the cloth is supported by hollow metallic cylinders perforated with holes and corrugated to allow the liquor used to pass freely through as much of the cloth as possible; the open ends of the cylinders are so arranged that nearly all of their area is open to the action of the pump.

I went next into a large establishment for dyeing, dressing, winding and packing the lace for market.

Its rivers, streams and canals run black and blue with the stringent juices of all the woods and weeds of the world used in dyeing.

There's one comfort, I can't possibly ever look any worse than I do now, and when my hair gets over the effect of its long years of dyeing, and my present emotional crisis becomes less tense I probably shall not be such a fright.

Their industry, besides the manufacture of their arms and canoes, was limited to the spinning and dyeing of cotton goods, notably their hammocks, and the making of pottery for domestic uses.

BERTHELOT, PIERRE EUGÈNE, a French chemist, born at Paris; professor in the College of France; distinguished for his researches in organic chemistry, and his attempt to produce organic compounds; the dyeing trade owes much to his discoveries in the extraction of dyes from coal-tar; he laid the foundation of thermo-chemistry; b. 1827.

Dyeing, calico-printing, linen and woollen manufactures, are the chief industries.

BRAZIL-WOOD, a wood found in Brazil, of great value for dyeing red, the colouring principle being named Brasilin.

It is the chief centre of manufacture of cotton thread in the world, and its other industries include dyeing, bleaching, woollen goods, and engineering.

With eyes smarting with the moisture of shame, the scarlet blood at times dyeing her very neck and temples, she muffled her lowered crest in her shawl and bent over the reins.

They claim that the dye-woods of Hispaniola are superior for the dyeing of wools.

They loaded their ships with red wood, which the Italians call verzino and the Spaniards brazil-wood, and which is suitable for dyeing wool; after which they returned home.

dying 6073 occurrences

The distance prevented their disturbing those who remained near Raoul; while the light of the fire, which was kept in a cheerful blaze, cast a picturesque glow upon the group around the dying man, as soon as the night had fairly set in.

"It is remarkable, Ghita," he said, at length, "that IRaoul Yvardthe corsairthe man of wars and tempests combats and hairbreadth escapesshould be dying here, on this rock, with all those stars looking down upon me, as it might be, from your heaven, seeming to smile upon me!"

"Certainly not," he replied, promptly; "you must not think of dying.

I am the only son of the Earl of Mountdean, and my father lies dying in Italy.

Lady Charlewood was dying; yet the feeble arms held the little child tightly.

she repeated, a clear light shining in her dying eyes.

"Oh, Hubert, is it really true?" Nothing but his sobs answered her; dying as she was, all sweet, womanly compassion awoke in her heart.

" The hapless young mother kissed the tiny rosebud face, all the passion and anguish of her love shining in her dying eyes; and then the nurse carried the babe away.

Can you hear me, father?" No gleam of light came into the dying eyes, no consciousness into the quiet face; the earl did not hear.

He did not understand that to Lord Mountdean this childhis dying wife's legacywas the one object in life, that she was all that remained to him of a love that had been dearer than life itself.

When the priest came presently to administer the Sacraments of the dying to her, she roused herself and received them with much devotion, and presently beckoned Sister Louise to approach.

Great King, Scarce is our evening sacrifice begun, When evil demons, lurid as the clouds That gather round the dying orb of day, Cluster in hideous troops, obscene and dread, About our altars, casting far and near Terrific shadows, while the sacred fire Sheds a pale lustre o'er their ghostly shapes.

According to Manu, a king might take a sixth part of liquids, flowers, roots, fruit, grass, etc.; but, even though dying with want, he was not to receive any tax from a Bráhman learned in the Vedas.

I asked at last; and at the sound of my voice a smile broke over his small, sallow features, lending them strange beauty, but dying away instantly again into an expression of startled suspicion.

Think of the thief on the cross whom Christ pardoned in dying.

I could understand then, for the first time, how condemned criminals feelwell, strong, yet dying!

So centred were my dying thoughts on Wentworthso calmly did I await the great change that men call sudden death!

See, it requires two persons to sustain his dying motherone to wet her lips, one" "'Deed, honey," she interrupted, coolly, "you must 'scuse me dis oncst; I has jus' as much to do as I kin posomply 'complish, in keepin' of myself dry, comfable, and singin' ob my hyme-toones.

"Call the ship's doctorI am dying!" were the last words I remember to have articulated; then all was dark, and hours went by, of deep, unconscious sleep.

I sicken in this solitudeI am dying of mental inanition.

But, with one of those energetic impulses that come to us all in time of emergency, I recovered my balance in time to save myself from falling; and eagerly and wistfully, as looks the dying wretch on the dear faces he is soon to see no more, I gazed upon the paradise from which fiends had driven me.

Sybarite of societysustained the fainting souls of her companions by singing the grand anthems of her Church, in a voice loud, clear, and sweet as that of a dying swan.

"Howe'er the rest were coupled, as mov'd to court the train, Folker and Hagen parted ne'er again, Save in one mortal struggle, e'en to their dying hour.

"'Now think upon the homage that once to me you swore, When to the Rhine, good warrior, King Etzel's suit you bore, That you would serve me ever to either's dying day.

One version of the story relates, however, that Milon perished in a flood, and that Bertha was almost dying of hunger while her brother, a short distance away, was entertaining all his courtiers at his board.

Do we say   dyeing   or  dying