Do we say paced or paste

paced 736 occurrences

From thence, to quicken slow-paced night, Again my tavern-friends invite: Here too our early mornings pass, Till drowsy sleep retards the glass.'

But Harris, exhausted and shaken as he was to the very core, paced by his side, only half listening.

Across the room she paced slowly several times, a deep, anxious expression upon her pale countenance; then slowly she slipped off her gown and put on a dark stuff dress.

My mother paced the room three times back and forth, her hands locked.

She paced the room once more, three times, back and forth.

No star shone on the sentinel as he paced his lonely path, and naught was heard but the mournful hoot of the owl, as she raised her nightly wail from the withered branch of the venerable oak.

A year made slow by care and toil Has paced its weary round, Since Death enrich'd with kindred spoil

He clenched his fists and paced boldly up and down the hearthrug.

And in the name of Heaven, how long does that outrageous angel expect me to remain in this state of suspense!" Billy groaned again and paced the vestibule.

If I were ever to write a melodrama, Margaret, I could wish for no more thorough-paced villain than a large fortune."

Fifty years has he paced in this manner.

What were Lesbia's feelings in the early morning after the last day of the regatta, as she slowly paced the lavender walk in the Ladies' Garden, alone?for happily Mr. Smithson was not so early a riser as the Grasmere-bred damsel, and she had this fresh morning hour to herself.

Of what was she thinking as she paced slowly up and down the broad gravel walk, between two rows of tall old bushes, on which masses of purple blossom stood up from the pale grey foliage, silvery where the summer breeze touched it?

I cannot afford to be uncivil to him.' 'Cannot afford' in this instance meant 'dare not,' and Horace Smithson's thoughts as he paced the yew-tree walk were full of gloom.

Grim, stern,but courteous throughout the interview,the major paced the floor beside his desk.

He wore no bandages; he was the only occupant of the horse-stall; and he paced up and down the boards, muttering, muttering, continually muttering to himself.

Willis pointed to the ghastly row" and your soul gone to give in its last accountYou only know what that would have been likeAnd the first thing you do in payment is to accuse her of robbing youher, that the very angels in heaven, I believe, are glad to keep company with;" and the old man turned and paced the beach in fierce excitement.

The sun came out bright and hot as we paced along the line of spray, our horses' feet sinking above the fetlocks in pink and purple shells, while the droll sea-crabs scampered away from our path, and the blue gelatinous sea-nettles were tossed before us by the surge.

Jim Galway and Ropey Smith were walking side by side, keeping a measured step as they paced off a certain distance, while Bill Lang and Pete Leddy and Jack stood by.

He paced back and forth, his hands clasped behind him, his head bowed moodily, and his shoulders drawn together in a way that made him seem older and more portly.

But one calm June day, as he slowly paced the piazza after breakfast, his dreamy glance was arrested by a little vessel, evidently nearing the shore.

" He paced the room, walking in quick, jerky steps.

He got up and paced the room for a moment or two.

At its close, he arose and paced the chamber for some time in great agitation.

7. Nearing the end of the narrative, Ben paced up and down the narrow limits of the tent in great excitement, running his fingers through his hair, and barking out a question now and then. 8.

paste 1229 occurrences

Make a puff-paste and roll out very thin.

22.Swedish Pie. Make a rich pie-dough; line a deep pie-dish with the paste and let bake.

Serve on buttered toast, spread with curry paste.

Line a well-buttered baking-dish with a rich pie-paste.

Line a large pie-dish with the paste and bake.

Take 3 ounces of almonds and pound to a paste; add 3 tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, 1/2 teaspoonful of cinnamon and the yolks of 2 eggs well beaten with 1 tablespoonful of rum.

But the Mazarin is not one of them; for it is not a diamond at all; it is pastea paste facsimile of which this is the original.

A paste replica of the Mazarin was placed in the Louvre for the crowds to admire, and every one soon forgot that it was not really the diamond.

" "Yes," I said; "and then?" "Then I removed the jewels, took them down to a dealer in paste gems and duplicated them as closely as I could.

FRENCH DETECTIVE TAKES BACK PASTE IMITATIONS FROM AMERICA.

I saw, too, why Crochard had retained the paste jewelshe had a use for them!

It seemed like naming over and calling out the ways of your friends, to pull the flower all to pieces and press it and paste it in a book and write down all itsitsways and faults.

As I stood there, gazing round the room, I could not well distinguish its furthermost corners, for the lamp bore a shade of green paste-board, which threw a zone of light upon the table, and left the remainder of the room in darkness.

It acts as a true steam-gun, hurling into the air fragments of cold rock rasped off from the sides of the bore, and fragments also of melted lava, and clouds of dust, which fall again into the sea, and form there beds either of fine mud or of breccia that is, fragments of stone embedded in paste.

Upon the surface of this a mastic or cementing paste, is gradually spread, as the progress of the work makes it wanted, which forms the adhesive ground, or bed, on which the mosaic is laid.

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.

Into this paste are stuck the smalts, of which the mosaic picture is formed.

The Romans kept thousands of them together in aviaries, and fed them with a sort of paste made of bruised figs and flour, &c., to improve the delicacy and flavour of their flesh.

Washing the plant carefully she would pound it into paste that could be used as the base for a nutty and delicious bread.

At night with trembling hands I laid cold compresses on them until the adhering paste gave way; then, tucking the wet sheets beneath my coat, I stole back to safety.

Once, when in extreme good-humor, she shewed us how to make beads resembling coral, from a certain paste which she manufactured; but we never could extract from her the names of the materials, and were obliged to content ourselves with making them under her direction.

"I know not what huskings and quiltings maybe; But Grandma' will tell; and perhaps let us see Some things she has long laid away: That stiff damask gown, with its sharp-pointed waist, The hoop, the craped, cushion, and buckles of paste, Which they wore in her grandparent's day.

Albert Edward had a theory that the mole is a carnivorous animal, so he smeared a worm with carbolic tooth-paste and left it lying about.

It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder climeuntil she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces.

Her finest qualities are a sharp and ready wit and a wealth of imaginative pathos, alike pervaded by her bubbling humour; on the other hand there are moments, if rare, when in an ill-considered attempt to assume the buskin tread she reveals in her paste-board fustian somewhat of the unregeneracy of the plebian trull.

Do we say   paced   or  paste