12089 examples of paint in sentences

we had before seen; they were daubed over with a yellow pigment, which was the colour of the neighbouring cliff; their hair was long and curly, and appeared to be clotted with a whitish paint.

A piece of teak-wood, one side of which bore the marks of green paint, was found washed up on the beach; it had probably dropped or been thrown overboard from some ship passing by; several coconuts which had been evidently washed on shore were also lying above the tides' mark.

She sought for and discovered on the windows (which they had fondly regarded as miracles of cleanliness) sundry streaks and smears, and detected infinite small spots of paint and whitewash on the newly-scrubbed floors.

It occurred to me that possibly soot might be made into a sort of ink, and used with a paint brush.

This accounts, I think, for the change in his manner which we notice when he began to paint in Rome under Pope Paul III.

When called to paint the Sistine, he complained that painting was no art of his.

He first mentions Raffaello's death, "whom may God forgive;" then says that the "garzoni" of the Urbinate are beginning to paint in oil upon the walls of the Sala de' Pontefici.

ordered him to paint the great wall of the Sistine, and that Paul desires this work to be carried forward with all possible despatch.

"Monsignore,Your lordship sends to tell me that I must begin to paint, and have no anxiety.

By their needles, paint brushes and pens, by speaking the truth, and petitioning Parliament for the abolition of slavery.

"There will be a message presently, providing Sheikh Anazeh keeps sober!" To say that I was enjoying the game by this time is like trying to paint heaven with a tar-brush.

They wore more clothes than a Broadway chorus lady, and rather less paint, but if they were symbols of the Moslem paradise (as a learned Arab once assured me that they are meant to be) then, as I answered the Arab on that occasion, "me for hell."

he has thrown away his false paint, and shows the well-known bloody side, from which he gets his name.

I wish with all my heart some artist would paint me Lois and her cart!

So the hot day wore on in the town and country; the old sun glaring down like some fierce old judge, intolerant of weakness or shams,baking the hard earth in the streets harder for the horses' feet, drying up the bits of grass that grew between the boulders of the gutter, scaling off the paint from the brazen faces of the interminable brick houses.

About half of the first volume is devoted to a General Introduction, explanatory of the origin and design of the work, but mainly intended to paint the character of monastic institutions, to describe the happiness of a religious life, and to examine the charges brought against the monks.

Last summer I had a mania for illuminating, and made about a cord of texts and mottoes; I can't paint, so I cut letters out of red, blue and black paper, and deceived thereby the very elect, for even Mrs. Washburn was taken in, and said they were painted nicely.

"The painter dips his paintbrush in paint, to paint the carriage.

"The painter dips his paintbrush in paint, to paint the carriage.

Deal and paint are everywhere; doors that won't shut, bells that won't ring, and curtains that won't meet.

Like Shakspere, she was first an artist and then a philosopher; and I imagine she thought it to be her business as an artist rather to paint humanity as it is than as she would have it to be.

Paint and powder.

Jane Whitney (W); 28Jul64; R342001. WHORF, RICHARD B. Time to make up; a practical handbook in the art of grease paint.

How beautiful that fence would be with a new coat of paint, and how perfectly well she could afford it!

Yet, I think he was sometimes told: "You paint that wretch of a Don Juan a little too faithfully."

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