Over the lamentable procession hung a fog of gritty chalk particles that had been winnowed up by the plodding feet.
It had been a dry August and the rolling chalk downs over which they walked were uniformly brown.
Jesse Willows had mounted upon the table with the still faintly bellowing Totts, whom he led slowly from one end to the other, amid the clouds of chalk and the general bedlam.
Twenty pieces of chalkwere rattling on the blackboards like a platoon of busy telegraphic instruments.
As we approached Rheims about midday, a thick white fog rolled suddenly and silently over the chalk uplands that saw General Gouraud's campaign of last September and October.
It allus surprised me to see how much travel the Friar could chalk up, takin' his weight into account; but he was less irritatin' to a hoss 'n airy other man I ever met up with.
He was inhumanly innocent, and it was almost like feedin' a baby chalk and water.
They carry it round in cans and call it milk, but it is chalk and water all the same," she said, laughingly.
You know we drink chalk and water in London, grandma!
The chalk employed, which should be dry, and in fine powder, is added to the juice from a weighed sample, until the latter is perfectly neutralised, and the quantity consumed is exactly noted.
With this fluid make equal parts of the finest elutriated clay and chalk into a stiff paste, adding colouring matter, q.
To some, chalk or plaster of Paris had been added, for the purpose of increasing the weight.
Add thechalk by degrees to the lemon juice, made hot, and mix well; set by, that the powder may subside, and afterwards pour off the supernatant liquor.
French chalk reduced to powder by scraping or grating.
Chalk mixture, to which a few drops of laudanum have been added, or the compound powder of chalk and opium, are excellent medicines, and will generally quiet the bowels.
On the large scale the chalk is ground in mills, and the elutriation and deposit made in large reservoirs.
Care should be taken to use the prepared chalk as directed; the precipitated chalk has a crystalline character, and is said to occasion irritation of the bowels.
When the price of precipitated chalk is an objection to its use, prepared chalk may be used instead.
Should a bowl running jackwards touch the jack, however slightly, it is called a toucher and must be marked by the skip with a chalk cross as soon as it is at rest.
He left unfinished a large cartoon in black chalk of the Dead Christ in the bosom of Mary, with John and the Magdalene.
It grows plentifully on the chalk hills near Dunstable.
West's having set a chimney on fire at Chalk Cottage, thereby arousing the ire of its inmates.
Some people passing Chalk Cottage (that was what it was named) had contrived to stretch their necks over the high privet hedge which hid the lower part of the dwelling from the road, and were immensely gratified by the fact of seeing Dr.
That sickly daughter at Chalk Cottage, she's gone.
Deerham was good-natured enough to say that a handsome sum had found its way to Chalk Cottage, in the shape of silence-money, or something of the sort; but Deerham did not know.
How should I know anything about the ladies at Chalk Cottage?
West's doings at Chalk Cottage had not been orthodox, and that discovery had followed.
Now Jan had received positive commands from that wandering physician not to give his address to chance applicants, the inmates of Chalk Cottage having come in for a special interdiction.
You just ask Deerham about the row between the doctor and Chalk Cottage, and you'll hear ten versions, all different.
After I came home in the winter, there were strange whispers about papa and that Chalk Cottage.
One of the first to hear of it was Jan Verner; and, curious to say, he heard it from Mrs. Baynton, the lady at Chalk Cottage.
For at this corner, as at one other, Middlesex shows its age in gouty knuckles of chalk as well as wrinkles of sand.
It seems, Sir Patricius, that you are disposed to chalk your cheese with a note of admiration!
It is every way deserving of the Creta notanda of Horace, or the Creta notare of Persius: it should truly be marked with white chalk in the calendar!
All this time the people were peppering each other with confetti, small round chalk pellets smaller than peas.
The streets on the following day, as well as previously, were covered with the chalk pellets, and it was some time before they were swept and restored to their ordinary condition.
CHALK FARM THIS was a favourite tea-garden from the latter part of the eighteenth century till the fifties.
Chalk Farm had also its more martial customers, for towards the close of the eighteenth century the St. Pancras Volunteers used to march thither to fire at a target at the foot of the hill for a silver cup.
A water-colour drawing of about 1830 shows Chalk Farm without any building intervening between itself and its grassy mount.
Their marks and sizes were still visible, and the numbers and names remained as written in chalkfor the guidance of the hanger!
Others made chalk of cheese, and honey of a dog's t--d.
Leonard Gaultier, who published this engraving towards the end of the sixteenth century, reproduced a great many portraits besides from chalk drawings, in the style of his master, Thomas de Leu.
The carrying of lumps of chalk in the sand-bags up the stairs became not only sore on the back, but exceedingly wearisome to the legs.
Boil a handful of Strawberries or Strawberry Leaves in a quart of Water and a pint of Vinegar, adding two pounds of Castile Soap; and half a pound of Chalk in fine powder; boil them together till the water has evaporated.
Chalk is a carbonate of lime, and the manner of its production in such vast quantities was long a subject of speculation among geologists.
The cretaceous formation in England presents beds chiefly sandy in the lowest part, chiefly clayey in the middle, and chiefly of chalk in the upper part, the chalk beds being never absent, which some of the lower are in several places.
In the slate of Glarus, in Switzerland, corresponding to the English galt, in the chalk formation, the remains of a bird have been found.
Chalk with flints; these two last being generally white, but in some districts red, and in others yellow.
In the vale of the Mississippi, again, the true chalkis wholly, or all but wholly absent.
The distinctive feature of the uppermost chalk beds in England, is the presence of flint nodules.
From a chalk bed near Maidstone, have likewise been extracted some remains of a bird, supposed to have been of the long-winged swimmer family, and equal in size to the albatross.
The record of this period consists of a series of strata, in which chalk beds make a conspicuous appearance, and which is therefore called the cretaceous system or formation.
The chalk of the north of Europe contains, he says, a larger proportion of the inorganic matter; that of the south, a larger proportion of the organic matter, being in some instances almost entirely composed of it.
It then appeared likely that the chalk beds were the detritus of the corals which were in the oceans of that era.
The pale February sunlight was spreading from his left hand through the bare grey trunks, and over the distant shoulders of the woods, far into the white and purple of the chalk plain.
The people call this soil creta; but it seems to be less like a chalk than a marl, or marna.
Geologically speaking, this portion of Tuscany consists of loam and sandy deposits, forming the basin between two mountain-ranges--the Apennines and the chalk hills of the western coast of Central Italy.
Do ye mind how we stood like this in the Chalk Walk when I persuaded 'ee to stay?
He used to reckon his sacks by chalk strokes all in a row like garden-palings, measure his ricks by stretching with his arms, weigh his trusses by a lift, judge his hay by a chaw, and settle the price with a curse.
Nor, on the other hand, is there the slightest chance of the South Country chalk stream Angler being induced to give up his favourite form of sport.
The return of the May fly to a certain well-known chalk stream in Yorkshire seems to be an accomplished fact, though one not altogether to the satisfaction of the members of the club that fish its waters.
A difficulty that presents itself to thechalk stream angler is the tendency of fish when hooked and when scared by seeing the angler to bury themselves in the heavy masses of weed.
Our friend the chalk stream trout will brook no bungling; he is easily put down and scared, and the delicate accuracy needed in securing him forms the most potent of the many charms of this most beautiful of sports.
De fust on de list is Mistah Snow, And de nex is Jeemes and Dinah Crow; Chalk and ivory!
I cifered with my slate, and the Kernel made chalk marks on his hat every time we got up to a million of dollars.
Hansei, who was standing near the stable, took a piece of chalk from his pocket and wrote the letters C.
He always had a piece of chalk in his pocket, and he now took it out and reckoned up the money.
