Do we say ware or wear

ware 1354 occurrences

Then there is the bazaar of sweetmeats; of vegetables; of red slippers; of shawls; of caftans; of bakers and ovens; of wooden ware; of jewelry-a great stone building, covered with vaulted passages; of Aleppo silks; of Baghdad carpets; of Indian stuffs; of coffee; and so on, through a seemingly endless variety.

Well, said Ridoux, you give me no answer and you stare at me like an earthen-ware dog.

The inhabitants vie with the Japanese in the manufacture of lacquered ware.

One can now have fire-proof ware which is not unsightly.

There is a very artistic white fire-proof ware which is specially suitable for using in this way, so that besides the saving of trouble, one can have the food hot and crisp from the ovena rather difficult, or at least uncertain consummation if there is much shifting from one dish to another.

The first contains a description of the Jewish cemetery at Prague: "Through winding, filthy, pent-up, and over-peopled lanes, in the part of the old town next the river, heaped up with old clothes, trinket-ware, villainous-looking bread, and horrid sausages, one attains to an open space irregularly and rudely walled in and full of graves.

The mouth of the creek makes a safe harbor at that place, where there is also a dock, one ware-house and several farm houses.

He also has a "tiffin basket," with a tea pot, an alcohol lamp, a tea caddy, plates and cups of granite ware, spoons, knives and forks, a box of sugar, a tin of jam, a tin of biscuits or crackers, and other concomitants for his interior department in case of an emergency; and, never having had anything better, he thinks the present arrangement good enough and wonders why Americans are dissatisfied.

And if the man who makes watches, or cleans sewers, or even mines coalyour especial sore spotdoes his work well, and is suited to it in temperament, who knows that he does not find it a satisfaction as complete as mine in telling a bit of genuine Palissy ware from an imitation.

The period when town-meetings ware most important from the wide scope of their transactions was the period of earnest and sometimes stormy discussion that ushered in our Revolutionary war.

When a steamer is about to start, book-pedlers crowd on board with baskets full of theirgenerally speakingtrashy ware.

worth of tin ware and many other things.

The cheapness of imported iron ware has driven out this interesting art on the coast; but in the interior it is still practised by the Mandingoes, who are also fine goldsmiths, and manufacture highly ornamented rings.

William E. Russell and Jonathan Ware, (two American authors of no great note,) in parsing the name of "George Washington," absurdly take the former word as an adjective belonging to the latter.

See Russell's Gram., p. 100; and Ware's, 17.

Carleton,Miss Gould,Professor Ware,lake Erie,the Pacific ocean,Franklin House,Union street.

Berthold Villenger Cox (E); 6Jan54; R124073. HARKER, LIZZIE ALLEN Hilda Ware.

SEE Orem, Preston Ware, comp.

The gateway to piano playing, by James Francis Cooke, Preston Ware Orem, Helen L. Cramm, and Edward Ellsworth Hipsher.

WARE, HARLAN.

Rag opera, by Harlan Ware and James Prindle.

Harlan Ware (A); 26Apr56; R169619.

WARE, HENRY.

OREM, PRESTON WARE.

Happy days in music play, by Preston Ware Orem and James Francis Cooke.

wear 5805 occurrences

But all the lords of the council kept silence, for a horrible thing it seemed in their eyes that a monk should wear the mantle of a king.

Andanother most significant and striking factthe testator was accustomed to wear upon the third finger of his left handthe very finger that is missing from the remains that were founda most peculiar ring, which fitted so tightly that he was unable to get it off after once putting it on; a ring, gentlemen, of so peculiar a pattern that had it been found on the body must have instantly established the identity of the remains.

I pointed it out to him and he picked it up, and then we all recognised it as a scarab that the testator was accustomed to wear on his watch-chain.

Now, did you ever notice whether he was accustomed to wear any rings upon his fingers?" "He wore upon the third finger of his left hand a copy of an antique ring which bore the device of the Eye of Osiris.

" "Did he wear it constantly?" "Yes, necessarily; because it was too small for him, and having once squeezed it on he was never able to get it off again.

"You have made certain statements," said he, "concerning the scarab which Mr. Bellingham was accustomed to wear suspended from his watch-guard.

"I remember, too, that the demonstrator used to wear a blue apron, which created a sort of impression of a cannibal butcher's shop.

Perhaps you may be able to wear it as you have a small hand, but in any case keep it in remembrance of our friendship.

Not a diadem, but a tiara will I wear, the symbol of universal sovereignty, before which barbarism shall flee away, and happiness be restored once more."

Even if you had allowed him to wear a Pierrot costume, things would not have panned out as they did.

"He don't know me!" said the young man, laughing; "I don't think he'll hunt if I wear these, sir.

She wore a pink dress, he recollectsall children should wear either pink or whiteand her hair was in long, bright curls, and her eyes were diamonds, full of light.

" Redbud replied with a smile: "Yes, I generally wear it; but I was thinking how strange your life was, Verty.

The ex-soldier looked the worse for wear after his jail sentence.

And he would like to them appear, Their garb, but not their cloaths did wear.

For the acting this comedy (says he) those who have the government of the stage have their humours, and would be intreated; and I have mine, and won't entreat them; and were all dramatic writers of my mind, they should wear their old plays thread-bare, er'e they should have any new, till they better understood their own interest, and how to distinguish between good and bad.'

She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir.

All the people wear old and tattered garments, and I could not see a hat, a coat or a pair of pantaloons on the person of one of the hundreds that thronged the market-place all Sunday, that looked as if it had been new at any time within the last few years!

The men as well as the women wear long flowing garments, like those represented in our picture Bibles.

The baker came up piping, and manifestly the worse for wear.

All your cooks and butchers wear a Lorraine cast of expression.

Wear a blue ribbon round your neck, if you want to encourage me.

You said you'd wear a blue ribbon on your neck, and I was to have a rose pinned to my coat.

LITTLE RED CAP Many years ago there lived a dear little girl who was beloved by every one who knew her; but her grand-mother was so very fond of her that she never felt she could think and do enough to please this dear grand-daughter, and she presented the little girl with a red silk cap, which suited her so well, that she would never wear anything else, and so was called Little Red-Cap.

"I have often thought," he observed one day, to Boswell's amusement, "that if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns"as more cleanly.

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