The only remedy was to avoid the blacklead altogether.
That ended the conversation, and the blacklead question was never agitated again, although once or twice, during my absence from the cell, the obnoxious stuff was put on the floor and polished up by one of the cleaners.
Yes," I rejoined, "and I do keep it clean for my own sake; but your blacklead is dirt.
This I discovered to be the blacklead from the floor.
Let me add that in the new cells the floors are all boarded, and the blacklead nuisance is there unknown.
Good blacklead crucibles, even when of the largest size, support the greatest and most sudden alternations of temperature without cracking, and may be used after repeated heating and cooling.
Then blacklead the stove; put in a few cinders, lay on them a piece of paper and a few sticks crossing each other; on these lay very lightly some pieces of half-burnt coal and a few cinders, leaving space for the draught.
In attempting to reproduce a signature a forger will probably make a preliminary outline with a blacklead pencil and then go over this with ink.
He had left finger-prints upon a champagne bottle, and when these were made clear by the application of powdered blacklead they were found to correspond exactly with the finger-prints of the prisoner.
The furnace used for melting that alloy, in blacklead crucibles, is a common air-furnace, like that for making brass.
These are all despatched to the warehouse of the proprietors in London, where the blackleadis sold monthly by auction, at a price of from 35s.
The cleansed blacklead is packed up into strong casks, which hold 1 cwt.
Mark round them with a blacklead pencil, and cut them through with a strong pair of scissors.
She attacked the kitchen fire, hurled into the sink a flat-iron that had the temerity to get too hot, scrubbed boards that required no scrubbing, washed linoleum that was spotless, blackleaded where to blacklead was like painting the lily.
Take the old blacklead brush, dip it in water, mix up some emery with it into a paste; wet the lap; brush it well over with emery.
Of course that real ball never went out of the magician’s possession, but a duplicate composed of blacklead was substituted for it, which could be readily reduced to powder by a vigorous ramming home of the charge, and so rendered harmless.
Then you will want a housemaid’s blacklead brush, a nail brush with handle, a brush used for cleaning silver plate.
A fire, which seemed the only clean thing, blazed in a rusty-looking stove, which had not known blacklead since its earliest infancy.
At one time the graphite or pure carbon, of which the blacklead (as we wrongly call it) of our pencils is made, was dug solid out of the earth.
The wax mould being built, is ready for blackleading, to give it a conducting surface upon which the metal may be deposited in the bath, superfluous blacklead being removed with a bellows.
This process prevents entirely the circulation of blacklead in the air, which has heretofore been so objectionable in the process of electrotyping.
One of the most original, unique, and successful humbugs of the present day was the late Monsieur Mangin, the blacklead pencil maker of Paris.
It should be remembered that the print should just cover the pencil marks, since it is almost impossible to erase blacklead with india-rubber, if any starch should by accident get on it.
The careful application of blacklead on the tissue paper on the back of the plate may often save a beautiful negative that would be otherwise useless.
I know blackleadattracts the concentration of the sun.
Gerald had a note-book, with leaves of the shiny kind which you have to write on, not with a blacklead pencil, but with an ivory thing with a point of real lead.
A blacklead brush hurtled across the room: he caught it neatly and returned it to the owner.
That's a good notion," said Jim, sitting back on his heels, blacklead brush in hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blacklead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
