Do we say tool or tulle

tool 835 occurrences

He was the first real Thinker, Then air-philosophy and element-philosophy grew upbeast-worship, animalism, fire-worship, and the rudiments of simple scientific learning, as, for instance, when men found that they could make a tool to cut, a spike to sew.

It may take place individually between man and man, in which transaction a horse, an ox, or a tool may change hands.

"Why don't he come in?" questioned Abe, waving back a greeting as well as he could with the treasured cup in one of his hands and the saucer in the other; whereupon Sarah Jane, that ugly duckling, explained that the fellow, being a confirmed woman-hater, cooked all his own meals in the smokehouse, and insisted upon all his orders being left on a slate outside the tool-house door.

Here were our cities when we feared the beast, before we had knowledge of bronze or iron, when our tool and our weapon was the flint.

The Great Mogul had been little better than a mummy for more than half a century; and Bahadur Shah was a mere tool and puppet in the hands of rebel sepoys; nevertheless the British Government had to deal with the astounding fact that the rebels were fighting under his name and standard, just as Afghans and Mahrattas had done in the days of Ahmed Shah Durani and Mahadaji Sindhia.

Catrina was an easy tool in the hands of such as Claude de Chauxville; for he had dealt with women and that which is evil in women all his life, and the only mistakes he ever made were those characteristic errors of omission attaching to a persistent ignorance of the innate good in human nature.

Just be a tool and hardware missionary.

But the ever-watchful eyes had no instructions to report on the tool missionary's other activities, and therefore no report was made.

But it may as well be told that, even more than China, India made the deepest impress on the mind and heart of our tool-traveler.

" "Dost thou think," said the Friar mildly, "that the good Saint Christopher would ha' sought his own ease so? Nay, give me thy tool as I bid thee, for I would carry it as a penance to my pride.

p. 14: Sociological theory, as developed by R. Thurnwald and others, has been used as a theoretical tool here, together with observations by A. Credner and H. Bernatzik.

For the use of foreign monks in Chinese bureaucracies, I have used M. Weber's theory as an interpretative tool.

"I was just going to remind you of the journey that he made across the wilderness from Kentucky to St. Louis to find out, if he could, at first hand, what treason Aaron Burr was plotting over there with the commandant of the military post as a tool.

Notorious as he was through the northern provinces he was infinitely to be preferred to Chan Heminway, who sat at his left who, a weaker man than either Ray or Neilson, was simply a tool in the latter's hand,a smashing sledge or a cruel blade as his master wished.

Your official seal should be not as a mere common tool, but as though it were yourself; not the instrument of other men's wills, but the evidence of your own.

Full faith the solemn Oath obtain'd, Man's mind was aw'd by priestly rule; Steady to Truth he still remain'd, Unless to priestly fraud a tool.

"Yes," Mrs. Todd concluded, "he says he thinks of buying one himself to carry in his tool-box.

FIRST MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO., LAFAYETTE, IND. Machine tool work.

KOEBEL DIAMOND TOOL CO. Koebel multi-edge diamond dresser.

Koebel Diamond Tool Co. (PWH); 11Dec62; R306674.

Koebel Diamond Tool Co. (PWH); 11Dec62; R306676.

© 26Dec34; AA165748. Koebel Diamond Tool Co. (PWH); 11Dec62; R306675.

"'Tis scarcely an hour to sunrise," he continued, "and I warrant the noble Red Axe will desire to feel the edge of his tool and see that his assistants are in their places.

He was a tool in the hands of the government of Cochin; and, as the dog said in the fable, "What is done by the master's orders, is the master's action;" or, as the same sentiment is, perhaps, better expressed in the legal axiom; "Qui facit per alium facit per se.

A tool of murder; [B] they who ruled the State, 65

tulle 69 occurrences

The wedding-dress is classic, a simple, very long dress of white satin, and generally a tulle veil over the face.

The fog from East River was blowing in grandly as she ran into its tulle.

Mamma, did you remember to order the tulle for our wings?

And though she was back in an elder day, she glowed young as she talked, whether recalling official solemnities or a once-cherished gown of embroidered tulle, caught up with bunches of grapes.

The attendants here were Japanese girls in native costume, and the long table was laid with a lace cloth over pink satin, with butterfly bows of pink tulle.

She wears a tulle cap, under which hangs awry a front of false hair; her gaping slippers flop as she walks across the room.

Everybody seemed to be in their best clothes, and most of the women had flowers and tulle or little black feathers sticking up in their hair, and bare red arms, and skirts inches off the ground in front; you know the look.

I am longing to put on my white tulle, and I do feel excited.

First my white tulle was a dream.

My white chiffon is as pretty as the tulle, and Octavia was quite pleased with me.

In honour of her master's guest, she had put on her black dress of Associate and her silver medal; and on her head she wore coquettishly an embroidered cap, trimmed with tulle of dazzling whiteness.

Miss Puckers had disposed about her person as much ribbon, tulle, and cheap jewelry as might have fitted out a fancy fair.

On each side of the red cheeks other braids were looped over the ears hung with broad earrings of filigree set with rough pearls and emeralds, or gold loops and pendants of coral, and an unexpected tulle ruff, like that of a Watteau shepherdess, framed the round chin above a torrent of necklaces, necklaces of amber, coral, baroque pearls, hung with mysterious barbaric amulets and fetiches.

But that thing she had on now, for instance;a tunic of ecru colored silk that she had pulled on over her head, with a little over-dress of corn colored tulle, weighted artfully here and there that it mightn't fly away.

" She reached up her strong white arms (the tulle sleeves did fall away from them rather alarmingly, and Miss Wollaston concentrated her attention on the spiggot of the coffee urn) for his head as he bent over her and pulled it down for a kiss.

And at night, when she came from the balls, tired, tired to death as only balls can render one, she would throw herself down upon her bed in her tulle skirts,on top, or not, of the exquisite flowers, she did not care,and make her maid undress her in that position; often having her bodices cut off her, because she was too tired to turn over and have them unlaced.

Yes, one could see her, in that time-honored thin silk dress of hers stiffened into brocade by buckram underneath; the high, low-necked waist, hiding any evidences of breast, if there were such evidences to hide, and bringing the long neck into such faulty prominence; and the sleeves, crisp puffs of tulle divided by bands of red velvet, through which the poor lean arm runs like a wire, stringing them together like beads.

Not the customary conservative but monotonous upholstered affair of jet and lace, but a handful of pink roses in a tulle nest, held on by wisps of tulle instead of ribbons.

Not the customary conservative but monotonous upholstered affair of jet and lace, but a handful of pink roses in a tulle nest, held on by wisps of tulle instead of ribbons.

What could it feel like, I wonder, to have on a white tulle dress and to dance all the evening.

I shall be able to hide the mark by bodices brimmed with flowers and lace and tulle, and a thousand other delightful things that are worn, without being required; it may even look pretty.

In the centre of the window, on a raised background of silver paper, was displayed a wreath of orange-blossom veiled with tulle.

Then catching sight of Emily's brooch, in which was a portrait of her child, little Nancy put the wide tulle cap-strings aside, and looked at it earnestly.

" TULLE (15), a town of France, capital of the dep.

Ladies who dance should wear dresses of light and diaphanous materials, such as tulle, gauze, crape, net, &c., over coloured silk slips.

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