Some Indian lads they had with them as servants urged the Padres to place an offering of copal before this god in order to propitiate him and prevent him from destroying them all.
There are very large forests with many copaland balsam trees, and many hills, on account of which the paths are impassable in the rainy season.
It resembles the animé of Madagascar rather than the copal of India, which flows from an entirely different tree.
The inhabitants also collect copal at the headwaters of the Hondachi, and use it for illumination.
In exchange for some worthless European trinkets, the Spaniards obtained some Yucca bread, copal gum, pieces of gold worked into the shape of fishes or birds, and garments made of cotton, which had been woven in the country.
Is it of these resins that the mastic and copal varnishes, so much used in painting, are made?
We have seen it dissolve copal and mastic to form varnishes; and these resins are certainly not soluble in water, since water precipitates them from their solution in alcohol.
Good copal or amber varnish, coloured with either plumbago or vermilion.
Sometimes a little mastic, sandarac, or elemi, or copal varnish, is added to render the polish tougher.
Camphor is frequently put into wardrobes and clothes-trunks, to keep away insects; it is used to make the white stars and fire of the pyrotechnist; and by the varnish-maker to increase the solubility of copal and other gums.
Mixed with alcohol, caoutchoucin dissolves gums and resins, especially copal and india rubber, at the common temperature of the atmosphere, and it speedily evaporates, leaving them again in the solid state.
When this copal was melted, the kettle was set, with its boiling-hot pitchy contents, in that little entry.
The next day Ogula and his servant were doing their work of refining the gum-copal they had gathered for trade; it was being boiled in an enormous kettle.
This is dried and pumiced, and a fine coating of japan or copal varnish is finally given.
The wise men had placed some copal on top of the altar they had made of wood and stone and it was not long before the cotton and copal began to burn.
The true or fossilcopal is found embedded in the earth over a wide belt of the mainland coast of Zanzibar, on tracts where not a single tree is now visible.
Copal varnish is in modern practice no inefficient substitute for amber, and we believe that most artists will agree with us in thinking that the vehicles now in use are sufficient for all purposes, if used rightly.
The pieces of copalrecovered are in some cases as large as a human head.
This copal was used as incense in the Mayan temples, and it is certain that it was regarded as very precious, for there is evidence that tributes to overlords were paid by vassal tribes in so much weight of this resinous gum.
Give three coats ofcopal varnish, allowing ample time for each coat to dry.
I went with the Makondé to see a specimen of the gum-copal tree in the vicinity of this village.
From the cisalpinae and gum-copal trees bark cloth is made.
We passed a gigantic specimen of the Kumbé, or gum-copal tree.
Trees often appear of large size and of a species closely resembling the gum-copal tree; on the heights masukos and rhododendrons are found, and when exposed they are bent away from the south-east.
Gum-copal trees and bushes grow here as well as all over the country; but gum is never dug for, probably because the trees were never large enough to yield the fossil gum.
The language of the people here is Swaheli; they trade a little in gum-copal and Orchilla weed.
The gum-copal trees now pour out gum where wounded, and I have seen masses of it fallen on the ground.
Copal varnish is that most generally used for carriages and wood, it is made by adding boiled linseed oil to melted copal, and afterwards thinning it with oil of turpentine.
Old work, before being varnished with any varnish that contains oil (as copal varnish), should be thoroughly freed from grease or greasy matter, or the varnish will never dry.
In other parts they reverence the bones of the earlier Nagualists, preserving them in caves, where they adorn them with flowers and burn copal before them.
The “Master” still assigned the naguals to the new-born infants, copal was burned to their ancient gods in remote caves, and formulas of invocation were taught by the veteran nagualists to their neophytes.
A natural altar had been provided in a similar manner, and on it, at the time of his visit, were numerous idols in the figures of men and animals, and before them fresh offerings of copal and food.
Shooting over a hill not long thereafter, the trail suddenly fell through copal and oak woods into a sheltered valley where, with a suddenness that drew an exclamation of admiration from Seyd, they came in sight of the house.
Left to its own devices, however, it gradually swerved from the beating rain and presently turned on to a cattle track which swung away into gum copal trees and scrub oak at an imperceptible angle.
They had just ridden into copal woods, and, looking up, Seyd saw that he was pointing at a pile of bones and wet tatters of clothing that lay under a swinging fray of rope.
A stone one foot six inches long protrudes from the chin, intended, perhaps, for burning copal on, as a sort of altar.
The interior walls of both room and corridor are painted, and in the latter is an altar on which copal is supposed to have been burned.
Altars are as rare as idols; indeed, only at Tuloom are such relics definitely reported, and then they are of small size and of simple construction, merely hewn blocks on which copal was burned.
This building is twelve by fifteen feet and contains a single room where a copal altar appears.
When dry, give the work three coats of the best copal varnish, letting the article remain a day or two between each coat.
Brush them over with size, and, when dry, varnish them with copal varnish.
They roused them out of their sleep, undressed them, bathed them in cold water, made them sweep the temples and offercopal to the gods.
Use only the whitest copal varnish for your white holly, else you will find it yellow holly after the varnish has been put on.
It takes a fair polish, but is by no means so durable or beautiful as copal or hard varnishes.
Copal was making desperate efforts to count his precious teacups, a task which their scattered positions rendered distressingly difficult.
Copal is becoming quite an humorist," Lightmark suggested in an impartial manner.
Copal has been in great form to-night," said Lightmark, after the door had closed on him, getting up and stretching himself.
Gum copal is also found in the district in large quantities and in various qualities and colours.
Next day we reach Coquilhatville early and after taking some rubber and gum copal on board leave in the afternoon.
While still hot, it is painted with gum copal which renders it water-tight.
He then suggested that it would be a good scheme to take a pot ofcopal varnish and brush along, and take jobs of the farmers to varnish pieces of furniture, charging a certain price for each piece.
He left me there; and one evening at the supper table I entered into conversation with several gentlemen, one of whom related a few incidents of his experience, when I also related my late experience in selling copal varnish.
Their greatest accomplishment lay in leading astray the traveller: men went into the forest in search of game or copal or rubber, and never came back, because there were a thousand ways in and no way out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
