My location, to be sure, was an excellent one, being central, and I had capital blacking and brushes.
There I was, full in his view, with blacking and brushes.
Just as I wouldn't mind blacking her boots if she wanted me to.
When he took his face up from his warm, dead mother he went straight downstairs and began blacking his boots.
Perhaps, she hastily decided, he was like this because, though he was not a duke, boot-blacking in New York notwithstanding he was a Temple Barholm.
The blacking factory that nearly killed the physical Dickens gave birth to the literary Dickens.
While Browning was living his daily life in Camberwell, Dickens was existing in the blacking factory; yet again it was an age of the beginning of intellectual giants.
The last paper I took up in my hands, places them in the following order: The True Spanish Blacking for Shoes, &c.
The True Spanish Blacking was advertised in opposition to "London Fucus for Shoes.
A bit of brick, a flat stone, a shell, the lid of a blacking box, indeed any small object that can be moved by the foot can be used as what is known as the "Potsherd.
Even tin-can covers or the top of a blacking box may be made to afford fun and test skill.
In one of his scenes, Rice introduced a negro boot-blacking establishment.
He always attributed his success to his having "humbugged" the public by this unique method of advertising his blacking in Egypt!
His blacking was really a superior article, and well worth the price charged for it, but he was "humbugging" the public by this queer way of arresting attention.
This was a disappointment to him, for he had dreamed of enlarging his stock by the addition of blacking and matches; but circumstances had not as yet permitted the realization of his hopes.
I am worth to-day two millions, perhaps more, and I commenced by selling blacking and matches in the streets.
There are too many spots of blacking on them, Dick.
Well, I haven't got any money to pay for blacking boots.
He hasn't any ambition, or he wouldn't be content to keep on blacking boots when there are so many better ways of making a living.
Whenever, therefore, he failed to earn the eighty cents by his boot-blacking vocation, he would not go home.
Their success caused a moral revolution, and had I been able to place all, not one would at this day beblacking boots, which many do for want of better employment.
Go with this young man, and he will provide you with everything that is necessary, and come to-night to the meeting of the Moral Boot Blacking Boys' Reformatory.
Do you know why it is called the Moral Boot Blacking Boys' Reformatory?
In my capacity as President of the Moral Boot Blacking Boys' Reformatory, I will provide you with a boot-stand, a set of brushes, and a pot of the best blacking.
And that was how, several hours later, Joe went to his boot-blacking stand, feeling secure in being near friends, and oblivious of the fact that strange eyes were watching all his movements.
If this boy could shoot like that, he would not be boot-blacking for a living.
In a few words Elliott explained matters, and Martin said: "Let Joe go to his boot-blacking stand in the morning.
Giovanni sought his own room at the end of the hall, squatted on a low stool and solemnly began the business of blacking his master's boots.
I buy the blacking for the signore's boots," gravely.
A young knight of the brush stood near by, with his blacking box slung over his shoulder.
The blacking was a paste, put up in small wooden boxes, to be applied with a brush, such a thing as waterproof blacking then not being thought of, at least by us.
We calculated the amount of blacking likely to be required for our trade to the season's end, and then devoted the necessary time to its manufacture.
Besides, I was curious to learn whether, in such a benighted country, blacking and ink were used at all.
Competition in the blackingof boots enlivened the fall, the Hotel Lafayette putting boldly in printer's ink the question, "Do You Want to Have Your Boots Blacked in a Cool, Private Place?
This had not occurred to Dick, for in general the professional boot-black considers his blacking too valuable to expend on his own shoes or boots, if he is fortunate enough to possess a pair.
Until he should obtain one he determined to devote half the day to blacking boots, not being willing to break in upon his small capital.
There was also here and there a stain of blacking upon it, which, though an advertisement of his profession, scarcely added to its good appearance.
An excellent boot and shoe paste is prepared from it, which renders boots and shoes absolutely waterproof, and over which any ordinary blacking may be used to produce a polish.
Blacking is generally made with ivory black, treacle, linseed, or sweet oil, and oil of vitriol.
The proportions vary in the different directions, and a variable quantity of water is added, as paste or liquid blacking is required; the mode of making being otherwise precisely the same.
I had forgotten the effect of blacking on clean sheets, and to my horror I discovered the bed-linen was, at any rate, as plentifully covered with blacking as ‘them precious boots.
Hitherto I have managed the blacking difficulty most effectively.
I'd give ever so much to catch him blackingboots in City Hall Park, or anywhere else; I'd give him a job.
As to that, he is probably selling papers or blacking boots in the lower part of the city.
He's fit for something better than blacking boots.
I really believe he spent the entire time he was not blacking boots in walking round and round his box on the palms of his hands with his feet up in the air.
I'm afraid you let her spend the money you get for blacking boots on drink.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
