Do we say sear or seer

sear 84 occurrences

By heaven, put on thy coronet, or that heaven, Which now with a clear [arch] lends us this light, Shall not be curtain'd with the veil of night, Ere on thy head I clap a burning crown Of red-hot iron, that shall sear thy brains.

[eBook #10446] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREEN FLAG*** E-text prepared by Lionel G. Sear of Truro, Cornwall, England THE GREEN FLAG.

run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale^, sweal^; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break^, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel &c (contract) 195; fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; fall into the sear and yellow leaf, rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish &c 162; die &c 360.

By all the gods, all these, and all the Pages, And all the Court shall hoot thee through the Court, Fling rotten Oranges, make ribald Rimes, And sear thy name with Candles upon walls: Do you laugh Lady Venus? Meg.

Continue the gradual increase of pressure so that when the aim has become exact the additional pressure required to release the point of the sear can be given almost insensibly and without causing any deflection of the rifle.

By constant repetition of this exercise he should be able finally to squeeze the trigger to a certain point beyond which the slightest movement will release the sear.

With thumb of left hand exert a momentary pressure on the grip-safety to release hammer from sear.

The releasing of the sear causes a slight movement of the muzzle, generally to the left.

The pressure should continue to that point beyond which the slightest movement will release the sear.

While the sights are directed upon the mark, gradually increase the pressure on the trigger until it reaches that point where the slightest additional pressure will release the sear.

" At first this exercise should be executed with deliberation, but gradually the soldier will be taught to catch the aim quickly and to lose no time in beginning the trigger squeeze and bringing it to the point where the slightest additional pressure will release the sear.

At this command each soldier, keeping his eye on the target, quickly draws his pistol, cocks it as in paragraph 140, thrusts it toward the target, squeezes the trigger, and at the instant the weapon is brought in line with the eye and the objective increases the pressure, releasing the sear.

Must then the fire for aye, Deliberately kindled and supplied With hellish sulphur, sear my tortured soul!

Some the gall'd ropes with dauby marline bind, Or sear-cloth masts with strong tarpaulin coats: To try new shrouds one mounts into the wind, And one below their ease or stiffness notes.

"Love is not so ruthlessit does not shock or sear, John Markham," she gasped.

In cooking meat by this method it is always desirable to retain the juices entirely within the meat, which can be best accomplished by first placing the clean-cut sides of the meat upon a smoking-hot pan over a quick fire; press the meat close to the pan until well scared and slightly browned, then turn over and sear the opposite side in the same manner.

Wrap a coarse towel around the hand to protect it from the heat, hold the meat as near the fire as possible, so as to sear one side instantly, slowly count ten, then turn and sear the other side.

Wrap a coarse towel around the hand to protect it from the heat, hold the meat as near the fire as possible, so as to sear one side instantly, slowly count ten, then turn and sear the other side.

Lay in the steak, pressing it down to the pan, and sear quickly on one side; turn, and without cutting into the meat, sear upon the other.

Lay in the steak, pressing it down to the pan, and sear quickly on one side; turn, and without cutting into the meat, sear upon the other.

and sear each side of the steak upon it.

Sear the cut surfaces and proceed as directed on page 397, cooking twenty minutes to the pound if it is to be rare, less half an hour deducted on account of soaring.

Wipe with a clean wet cloth, put into a smoking-hot skillet, and carefully sear all cut surfaces.

Wipe carefully, sear the cut surfaces, and proceed as directed for roasting beef.

When ready to cook, place it skin uppermost and sear the under side by pressing it on a hot pan; then broil the same as beefsteak over glowing coals.

seer 448 occurrences

Behind the work of the reformer is the dream of the reformer, the meditation of the mystic, the seer.

Vieweth these the blue-eyed prophet, Still the oracle says calmly, Speaks the seer with golden tresses "No!

Ha, sirrah; you'll be master, you'll wear the yellow, You'll be an over-seer?

He took up, with a new interest 'Chartism,' which alone of all Mr. Carlyle's works he had hitherto disliked, because his own luxurious day-dreams had always flowed in such sad discord with the terrible warnings of the modern seer, and his dark vistas of starvation, crime, neglect, and discontent.

" "He was a prophet," the Veronese answered reverently, "like the great Florentinea seer of visions; but at Rome only one understands why he was born.

Kish, the Benjamite, had sent out his son Saul in quest of three asses which had strayed away from the farm,a man so poor that he had no money to give to the seer who should direct his search, as was customary, and was obliged to borrow a quarter of a shekel from his servant when they went together to seek the counsel of Samuel.

It did not, however, appear from what he said that either Isaiah or the seer of Patmos had named anything about the blanket trick which had to be adopted by Joe is translating "the Book."

And yet, perhaps, had she not gone that day to answer the spirit-seer's summons and to catch at the straw thrown to her from beyond the grave, she might have seen a reason for changing her mind, and all might have happened very differently.

Hither I bear it, a gift to the gods, and a death to my foe-men, Freezing the seer to stone; to hide thine eyes from the horror.

Ah, for some seer, to say what links behind To read the mystic writing on the wall!

"But plainly I have the eye of a seer, and I imagined you standing up to be married in a sailor hat, or something equally unsuitable, and it was not to be endured.

(He was the Seer.)

For many years he had acted as a jossakeed, or seer, for his tribe.

He should no longer be the medium for conveying those matters which the didactic novel and the edifying lyric had treatedthings valuable where knowledge of the world and human nature, intercourse and felicity are concernedbut he must become a seer again, an announcer of mysterious wisdom.

In the latter case the lines are a striking instance of the prophetic power of minstrelsy, and justify the use of the word "vates," or seer, as applied to poets by the ancient Romans.

Zenobios, a gatherer of proverbs, uses the word "seer" instead of priest.

Why, that seer was worth the philosopher's stone, and could make Sir Bale's fortune in a season.

" "If he means to help me, let him remember I want a banker more than a seer.

Christ as Prophet, as Seer and Discoverer, is most amazing to the most gifted.

In the text we are carried by a true seer back of all traditions, behind all conventions, beyond all beliefs about life to life itself as it lies in its own freshness and fulness.

R61357, 21Apr50, Loew's inc. (PWH) THE SEER, a poem by L. Stewart Barr.

R61357, 21Apr50, Loew's inc. (PWH) THE SEER, a poem by L. Stewart Barr.

The Jugi returned with her and she gave him a seer of rice to put in his bag.

These answers puzzled the questioners, and they did not know what more to say; as they stood silent the other girl got up and went away remarking, "While I have been waiting here, I might have carded a seer of cotton."

This seer foresaw his soldier-doom, Yet willed the fight.

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