Wash the potatoes well, and if necessary, use a clean scrubbing-brush to remove the dirt from them; and if possible, choose the potatoes so that they may all be as nearly the same size as possible.
They should be perfectly freed from dirt and dust, and be divided into small bunches, with their roots cut off.
Thus the heat may be more regularly supplied to the substance cooking, and the operation is essentially a clean one, because there can be no cinders or other dirt to be provided for.
There was a spot of dirt on the floor, and Emma stooped mechanically to brush it up.
He loosened dirt with the pick, scooped it up in the shovel and threw it down the slope.
Until there was time to lay puncheons, the floor would necessarily be dirt and Joe had taken a cue from Snedeker's post.
The freed skin was dropped on both sides, so that no dirt would cling to the sticky, warm carcass.
Tongue so noisome as yours, come chance, might surely on order Bend to the mire, or lick dirtfrom a beggarly shoe.
White those haunches as any cleanly-silver'd Salt, it takes you a month to barely dirt them.
Straw kept under carpets, will make them wear much longer, as thedirt will sift through, and keep it from grinding out.
Carpets should be taken up and shook thoroughly, if in constant use, as often as three or four times in a year, as the dirt that collects underneath them wears them out very fast.
The dirt will be loose, so that they will require but a little rubbing.
If they get to boiling, it will not do them any harm, provided the suds is cool when they are put in; if it is hot at first, it will set the dirt in.
If the carpets are so much soiled as to require cleaning all over, after the dirt has been shaken out, spread them on a clean floor, and rub on them, with a new broom, pared and grated raw potatoes.
The Bailie was a man of earthly mould, after all; a good deal of dirt and dross about him, undoubtedly, but some kindly and just feelings he had, especially where the Baron or his young mistress were concerned.
In one place there was an accumulation of dirt a couple of feet thick.
She made a show of looking for it in the dirt outside; she knew I dared not say that I had missed it.
The woman grudged me this amusement; and as the cage hung in the outer apartment, and had a wire grating underneath, so that the dirt might fall out, she burned the rat with a candle from below.
He behaved very badly to Chresten; took the dirt from the floor and threw it into the food; spat into the beer, and allowed Chresten to see him do so when he carried the can away.
She laid all the dirt in a heap in the corner, and there was as much as a cartload.
This he did once, and then Chresten showed me how full it was of dirt and filth.
The former Karen, Ole's daughter, was one of those who spread the dirt but do not take it away.
The few articles of clothing to be seen in their homes are generally so thickly coated with grease and dirt as often to render it impossible to distinguish the color.
Now war has put its dirt upon them and seems to have aged them by fifteen years, leaving its ineffaceable imprint upon their faces.
Then a spot of ant-hill-like activity where a German railway company is at work building a new branch line, hundreds of them having pickaxes and making the dirt fly.
The water, being mixed with dirt and the drainings from the sepulchres round Mamillah, is not fit to drink.
We have been as mean as dirt ever since we came here, and if Tabitha had been as hateful as most girls are, she'd have written Uncle Hogan long ago.
The inside of every bundle (and the bundles all vary in bulk) is often full of pebbles, ordirt of various kinds, to increase the weight.
They are first placed in a pickle, in order to remove any grease or dirtfrom their surface, and also to render them rough, which facilitates the adherence of the tin with which they are to be covered.
The door was closed behind us, and dust and dirt were rubbed over the thin lines which marked where it fitted into the rock, and then we extinguished our lanterns and passed out of the valley on to the pampa.
In the centre of this I found a hole, out of which I picked the dirt with my dagger.
As he was rubbing some dirt on it, to take off the smoothness of the horsehide, Mr. Hasbrook advanced toward him and motioned him to wait.
The bathers heated themselves with exercise in the palaestra, then removed the dirtand oil with scrapers, strigiles, and bathed in the swimming tank.
Mr. Rosedew walked in very slowly and stiffly, then turned aside to a tufted mat, and began to wipe his shoes in the most elaborate manner, though there was not a particle of dirt upon them.
Now Craddy was looking away from them, sitting up in the sackâcloth bed, and trying with the sage gravity of fixed hallucination to read some lines which his fancy had written on the glazed dirt that served for a window.
Especial care should be taken of the legs and fetlocks, that no dirt remain to cause that distressing disease, grease or scratches, which results from filthy fetlocks and standing in dirty stables.
If, by neglect, dirt accumulates under the hair, apply with the finger the yolk of an egg, and then the fine comb will remove it all, without any trouble.
I will go down myself; for he will otherwise dirt the stairs with his feet.
All the dust and dirt of the desert were quickly swept from them, and the cold water infused new life into their veins and muscles.
Then he stood at his full height, brushed the traces of dirt from his clothes, and gave Middleton a look of uncompromising defiance and hostility.
Now and then they passed little Mexican villages, mostly of the adobe huts, with dirt and children strewed about in great quantities.
Bimbo must have exercised a strong control over his emotions, for in spite of the dirt and grease with which his face was smeared, I saw it flush angrily; but no other sign of passion was displayed.
Steel Spring willingly relinquished it, and pretending that he felt exceedingly nervous and faint, he squatted down upon the ground and watched with eager eyes every particle of dirt that was thrown from the hole.
He repelled us with scorn, at the imputation that he was drunk; and finding that it was impossible to reason with him, we left him digging away as though for life, and throwing the dirt in the form of a parapet.
The fellow seemed to think a compliment had been paid him, for he grinned so hard that the dirt actually cracked on his face and peeled off in scales.
Here have we been parading the dusty streets of Melbourne, and my eyes, ears, and mouth are filled with dirt and cobble stones.
Cos, then I couldn't help you get the dirt out if you give me up to the police.
We are afraid of nothing," replied Maurice; "but the dirt appears to be bewitched.
All the dirt that you wanted to work out would have to be carried to the water, and you can see that our lakes and rivers are not very extensive.
We resolved to bury them in a grave near the excavation in which we had sought shelter, and for this purpose three or four of the men commenced throwing dirt upon a large pile which we had previously thrown up.
Above the dirt walls large logs were laid, upon which the cross timbers were placed for supporting the roof.
The post commander ordered the dirt removed from around it and thus unearthed a complete human skeleton except where the top of the head had been worn away.
Our reporter came in yesterday morning, via the Manor dirt road, with a large piece of folded cotton bagging tied under each foot.
Afterward I see it growing where he planted it, in a place where the grass had been cleared off and the dirt levelled.
How the dirt is incident may remain a mystery, but it has been noted that sheets have at times been thrown upon a cement floor.
Streaks due to the presence of dirt (as apart from oil or grease contamination, or that due to pieces of oxidised scrap) are unusual, and when they do appear their origin seems to be somewhat of a mystery.
This is inverted during collection, and thus prevents much dirt falling into the latex.
Leaves, stems, bark-shavings, and dirtappear in the buckets, and it is a source of constant surprise to imagine how even unintelligent coolies can allow such things to happen.
It could scarcely be advanced that the dirt was picked up on the machines, as it is difficult to imagine where such dirt could come from.
In one or two instances there has been fairly clear evidence that the dirt was contained in the coagulum, and the only explanation fitting the case is that it fell into the latex after straining and during the course of coagulation.
Again, when cups are placed on the ground, it is easy to see that dirt may adhere to them.
How it was possible for dirt to get into the latex must be left for explanation to those better acquainted with the conditions under which the latex was coagulated.
In the collection of latex some of this dirt may fall into the bucket.
On cutting open lumps of coagulum brought in from the field division, it has sometimes been noticed that dirt is included, and the foregoing explanation is the only reasonable one.
Under these circumstances, the building is always dark, there is always an air of dampness, dirt may accumulate, and there is usually a bad smell.
The only complaints which it should be possible to lodge against block rubbers are: (a) The inclusion of dirt and other matter.
Money was just like dirt there, easy to get and to spend.
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat, and I saw him sway; Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands--my God!
If so, how did he scrape off the dirtwithout also scraping off the gold?
This is not as disagreeable to the wearer, even in that climate, as one would naturally suppose, but is really more unpleasant for the spectator, for he not only sees the bare knee but the film of dirt that incases it.
Some of the old women embraced us tenderly, while the salt tears cut deep furrows through the dirt upon their faces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
