The man dipped a root into water, and rubbed it on the lad's arm from the shoulder downwards.
The barber touches their shoulders with holy grass dipped in gingelly (Sesamum) oil.
Next morning ten stalwart young men strike the people with branches, which have been previously dipped in an earthen pot of water.
If the party of the Red Knob won, they carried the rope in triumph to the River Leme and dipped it in the water.
Formerly lads used to gather on the heights where the witches were believed to assemble; and by hurling besoms, dipped in pitch and ignited, they attempted to banish the invisible foe.
He dipped his finger into the blood and then sucked his bloody finger; and when he had sucked it he bowed his head and uttered a dolorous groan, whereat the Indians believed the earth itself shook and trembled, as did all who heard it.
His heart leaped jealously and the next moment went out in a flood of gratitude, admiration, as Barry swung off the shoulder of the mountain, waved his hat towards Kate, and dipped at once out of sight.
To the north the ground fell away smoothly, rolled down to the side of the mountain, and then dipped easily to the valley--the only direction from which the cabin was accessible, though here the grade was possible for a buckboard.
He put Grey Molly into an easy trot, for the floor of the pass dipped up and down, littered with sharp-toothed rocks or treacherous, rolling ones, as bad a place for speed as a stiff upslope.
In ten minutes Grey Molly dipped out of sight among the hills.
After this her father showed her a little stream of water which must come from a spring far back in the cave, and the current slipped noiselessly along one wall, and dipped of sight again before it reached the entrance to the place.
A gilt band under her wash-streak shone out dully at intervals to her plunges, as though a pencil had been dipped in phosphorus and a line of fire drawn.
She had been watching the gulls fly and float, with their white wings shining as they dipped down or soared away in the sunshine.
She watched over the little people when they went bathing, and loved to catch and kiss the rosy babies as they splashed about, and send quiet ripples to refresh the sick ones when their nurses dipped them in the wholesome sea.
As soon as the sun peeped over the hills the elves were up and away to the lake, where they all dipped and splashed and floated and frolicked till the air was full of sparkling drops and the water white with foam.
The clerk, descrying them, desisted abruptly from a conversation across the cigar counter, and with all the form of a ceremony dipped the pen with a flourish into the ink and handed it to Jethro.
This one knew Jethro, greeted him deferentially as Judge Bass, and dipped the pen in the ink and handed it to him that he might register.
In order to measure it, he picked up from the grass a straw which he dipped into the pool.
As it was dipped out of the vat, some of the Indians would get the thinner portions and some would get some meat.
It was dipped out to the Indians with a long-handled dipper made for the purpose.
At the very last instant, as a great curler bent over them, they dipped their heads and dived.
The breeze blew in strongly from the Golden Gate, the waves chopped and danced merrily, the little sloop dipped her rail and flew along at a speed that justified her reputation as a racer, gulls followed curiously.
The cock's throat was cut with a silver knife dipped in the blood of a hen.
Cain, there is reason to conclude, departed from the true worship of the Most High before his offering was refused, and ere he dipped his hands in his brother's blood.
She dippedhim in the river Styx, by which he was rendered invulnerable, except in the heel, by which he was held during the operation.
Many of the people wore bracelets, and on the appearance of the new moon a hen's neck was cut, and the bracelets dippedinto the blood.
When a person was dying, he was carried to a river anddipped into it, that his soul and body might be purified.
Wagajee walked up to the boiling oil, dipped his hand into it, and laid hold of the rupee.
This charm, when applied externally to man or beast, proved better than all known healing medicine, and, when water in which it had been dipped was given to man or beast to drink, it produced an effectual cure.
Having felt around, his fingers are dipped into the clear water, and thus he learns that he is to marry a beautiful rich girl.
Had he dipped into the soapy water, it would have meant that he would marry a poor widow; if in the blue water, he would be a noted author; if in the empty glass, he would die a bachelor.
But now this hurdle, which hung in the summer a foot above the trickle, would have been dippedmore than two feet deep but for the power against it.
George took the lights, and Mr. Chillingworth, without any hesitation, dipped his hands at once into the coffin, and took up some fragments of rags which were there.
That it is which should make people pause ere they dipped their hands in the blood of others, and that it is which becomes the first retribution that the murderer has to endure for the deep crime that he has committed.
Butler took pity on him, and to cure him took a very special stone which he had and dipped it briefly in a spoonful of "almond milk.
The stains did not seem to come out of the stockings; they looked gray and streaked, so Luretta dipped them again, paying little attention to her companions.
Then she bathed her face and hands, slipped off her moccasins and stockings and dipped her feet in the cool stream.
He dippedhis pen in the ink rather in order to have someone to talk with than to give or ask for news.
He dipped the wooden spoon into the jug of milk, and continued.
Well, Chilcote, have you dipped into the future yet?
Flopsie, as she held a large piece of bacon dipped in vinegar on her fork, preparatory to swallowing it with a gulp.
He saw it cutting along as straightly as an arrow, then suddenly it dipped round to the westward, apparently making straight for some shelving rocks, that projected far into the Fjord.
And, resting on his oar, he dipped the blade musingly in and out of the water, watching the bright drops fall with an oil-like smoothness as they trickled from the polished wood and glittered in the late sunshine like vari-colored jewels.
It is what I have wondered at all my life," said he, "that skill of the brush dipped in color.
Let us wish it," she added, and dipped her hand into the fountain.
We shall need a scaldino ourselves," Edith said, "to warm our fingers after we have dipped them in the cold water.
He dipped again in the inkwell, and held his breath over a sweeping line, as though he had forgotten everything else.
He carried it so gravely that, for the moment, I thought he was dipped in this secret traffick too, and that there was not an honest ironmaster in Sussex.
In the blood the young men dipped their fingers, and a small spot was marked on the foreheads and noses of the children.
Sponge is only mentioned with reference to the events of the Crucifixion, where it is related that a soldier placed a sponge upon hyssop, dipped it in vinegar (i.
But though his legs were wound round his waste-paper basket, and he dipped often and loudly in the saucer, like one ringing at the door of Fancy, he could not get the idea that would set him going.
And hedipped exultantly, for he had got his idea at last.
With natural pride he showed them the ink-pot into which Thomas Sandys had dipped as a boy.
