Ascertain when they are done by thrusting a fork in them, and take them up the moment they feel soft through; for if they are left in the water afterwards, they become waxy or watery.

She had eaten heartily, but all the color had left her face, which had assumed a waxy pallor under her heavy hair, which was still damp.

This is because it is covered with a waxy coating which prevents water loss through evaporation.

When one waters the cactus over its body, the waxy coating is washed away and the plant begins to rot.

"Don't be waxy!"

" "You needn't be waxy," said Ina calmly.

It bore prickly, heart-shaped pods an inch long, filled with seeds coated with a red waxy pulp.

(WITH APOLOGIES TO R.K.) If you can keep your courage and your curls up When life a whirling chaos seems to be Of amorous swains who want to ring their girls up And get them through at once (as you for me); If you can calm the weary and the waxy, When no appeals, however nicely put, Can lure from rank or pub.

Her hair was streaked with gray, her face thin and of an unnatural waxy pallor, her lips of a whitish-blue color and tightly pressed together, and her eyes, seemingly sunken far back in their orbits, burned with a strange, ghastlyI had almost said phosphorescentlight.

There was no movement of her features, yet I saw that her waxy cheeks were moist, as with the slow ooze of tears so long unshed that they had forgotten their natural flow.

One saw no marks of injury; except for that waxy pallor he might have been sleeping.

A solid field of green, waxy leaves and upright purple spikes, jammed tight and moving.

There they were, upright, tranquil, immense hyacinthstheir spear-points three feet above the water, their feathery streamers drifting six feet below; the broad, waxy leaves floating above their bulbous surface matsthey came on silently under the stars; they vanished under the stars seaward to their death.

The other bird, called a nun or waxbill, is about the size of a thrush, grayish in color, with a waxy red bill.

If you are a stranger, and remember what you have been charged elsewhere in smoky cities for tough beef, stringy mutton, waxy potatoes, and the very bread black with smuts, you select half a sovereign and drop it on the upper plate.

Scrofa resumed: "The varieties of olives to plant in rich and warm land are the preserving olive radius major, the olive of Sallentina, the round orchis, the bitter posea, the Sergian, the Colminian, and the waxy albicera: which ever of these does best in your locality, plant that most extensively.

In a mealy state the potato is easily digested; but when waxy or water-soaked, it is exceedingly trying to the digestive powers.

Young potatoes are always waxy, and consequently less wholesome than ripe ones.

From the villa doorway passed out Mistress Pen wick in fluttering white, with the waxy jasmine upon breast and hair.

SPERMACETI, a white waxy matter obtained in an oily state from the head of the sperm-whale inhabiting the Pacific and Indian Oceans; candles made of it yield a particularly steady and bright light.

The same subtile fragrance of the magnolia rises upward from the waxy leaves of the tall flowering trees growing beneath in the Moorish garden.

I want to get it broad and pureno messingno working over!a fine surface!and yet none of your waxy prettiness.

Fanny's doll aforesaid is left too near the fire, and waxy tears roll down her ruddy cheeks, to the utter ruin of her pretty face and her gay frock; and anon poor Fanny breaks her little heart in moans and sobs and sore lamentation.

On this island the principal trees are the leafless Erythrina, with waxy, pink flowers.

Raguet would never look at any thing feminine that hadn't white eyes and pink hair (yellow, I mean, of course)his style, you know, being dark and stern, he likes the downy, waxy kind.