Then she took from a drawer the bit of chamoisskin that I had given her, and passed it lightly over her eyelids and cheeks, humming softly to herself the while.
He has--" "You tell your Konrad that a chamoisskin isn't half as objectionable as a shiny one.
Nose is shiny," I announced, searching in a drawer for chamois and powder.
Chamois leather, which is not always prepared from the skins of deer or chamois, is only suitable for flat ornament.
A chamois leather bag, about 16 x 12 inches in size, is filled with very fine, carefully sifted sand, and then sewn up as tightly as possible, so that the surface is quite taut.
Schmidt said to us: "Chamois have been here this morning; the traces are quite fresh.
I assure you it is very amusing to see a herd of twenty or thirtychamois cross at a headlong pace a vast field of snow, or glacier, where they bound over the crevasses in play.
They must have seen us and made off; the chamois are as distrustful, you see, as the marmots, and as wary.
Even so This way the Chamois leapt: her nimble feet Have baffled me; my gains to-day will scarce Repay my break-neck travail.
Then he counted the large gems and wrapped them in their tissue paper and chamois skin.
Capisco, capisco," shouted Giacomo in his excitement, trailing on the marble floor the chamois skin with which he had been polishing the silver, and speaking in what seemed to his listener one word of a thousand syllables.
Giacomo, with a courtly sweep of the chamois skin.
Wipe them dry with a piece of chamois cloth and put them back in their cases.
Patent leathers must be creamed and rubbed with a chamois cloth or linen or flannel rag after all mud and dust have first been removed.
They should be kept polished with a chamois cloth, and occasionally a little silver polish or whiting.
Always keep in your room a small bottle of a good grease-remover as well as one of ammonia, some soft rags, and a chamois for general cleaning purposes.
Make several leaves of flannel or chamois skin and sew the bark on to these as a cover.
A little more of this music and there wont be a chamois for miles round.
The chamoiscontinues to exist through its absolute refusal to hear reason upon the matter.
He explained to us that chamois were now in season, but that even when they were not, they were sometimes to be had, inasmuch as they occasionally fell from the rocks and got killed.
The time between the shepherd's path and the Roman road is probably short in comparison with that between the mere chamois track and the first thing that can be called a path of men.
I receive three skins of a chamois from Signor Antonio Cinere of Alagna, branded in the neck.
Then he took a small piece of chamois leather from his waistcoat pocket and began to polish his glasses.
He produced the chamois leather bag, paid the five sovereigns, and received five and sixpence change--and also a receipt which he put in his pocket.
He then threw on a coat made of deer-skin, so prepared that it bore a slight resemblance to excessively coarse chamois leather.
This fellow has a chamois money belt on, and unless I'm greatly mistaken, that's where the jewels are.
But Lucilla, to the alarm of all, was already on her feet, skipped like a chamois to the steps, and flew dancing up the sward.
To Clean Windows--First wash the glass with water to which a little ammonia has been added and then polish with a chamois which has been dipped in water and wrung as dry as possible.
To Clean Bronze, make the article very hot by placing it in boiling water; then rub it well with a piece of flannel cloth dipped in soapsuds, and dry with a chamois leather.
Rub a little of this into the leather until quite absorbed, and then polish carefully with a clean chamois leather.
Polish them immediately, until they are dry and glossy, with a chamois or tissue paper.
To polish furniture, use a piece of velveteen instead of chamois leather.
To Clean and Polish Brass Beds--Brass bedsteads can be cleaned by rubbing them with a cloth which has been slightly moistened with sweet oil; then polished with a soft, dry duster, and lastly with a chamois leather.
They made little bunches of grapes out of dried peas covered with chamois skin--" "Oh, not really!
Then they covered their bonnets with them, and with leaves cut out of the chamois skin.
He spread the chamois leather out upon the table, and cut the skins into two long strips, about a foot broad.
He went in and selected a couple of chamois skins, very thick and strong.
It is of chamois leather, and I made it myself, from a beast I caught last summer in the valley of the Rhone.
It was on a glorious evening in April, when all these changes were passing, that I was descending the mountain above our village after a hard day's chamois hunting.
It is then pressed on chamois skins, and the quicksilver is separated from the gold by sublimation.
If the latter had been the case, he would in all probability have omitted even the chapter he does give us, as he has done with those written by Gaston de Foix on the deer, the reindeer, and the ibex and chamois (p.
He has hunted the bear, the wapiti, and the mountain ram in the wildest regions of the Rockies, and, also by fair stalking, the chamois and the red deer in the Alps.
