The gamblers were still playing, the fire blazed merrily, and Ginger Dubbin held the bank and was winning heavily.
Dubbin turned up the card which Dermod’s imagination pictured to be a good one, and showed an ace, the winning card.
It is well to keep a good-sized pot or canister of dubbin for your English boots and shoes.
The tempered leather having been set out on a glass table, to which the flesh side adheres, is given a thin coat of the dubbin on the grain, turned, set out on the flesh, and given a thick coat of dubbin.
Well, I read with my half-shut eyes by the flickering dubbin tin that gave a small and ever-dwindling light, and although my eyes burned and jumped I read through to the end.
That was probably due to a button that I had sewn on to the neck of my pyjama jacket by the uncertain light of dubbin oil!
The proportions of tallow and oil are varied with the time of year and with the method of drying, for if the dubbin be too soft it will run off the leather, and if too hard will not penetrate it so well.
The dubbin is brushed thickly on to the flesh side of the sammed leather, which is then hung up to dry.
After slicking well out they are hand-stuffed on the grain withdubbin and water, or merely oiled, and hung up to samm.
Lady Fareham's cornets and fiddles sounded a March in Alceste; and the party broke up in laughter and good temper, Mr. Dubbin being much complimented upon his having detected Spavinger's boots.
Although not a wit himself, Mr. Dubbin was occasionally the cause of wit in others, if the practice of bubbling an innocent rustic or citizen can be called wit.
This evening Mr. Dubbin had been incorrigible, and had insisted on intruding his clumsy person upon Lady Fareham's party, arguing with a dull persistence that his name was on her ladyship's billet of invitation.
Masaroon, while Mr. Dubbin talked apart with Lady Euphemia, who had come from the other end of the barge to warn her husband against excess in Rhenish or Burgundy.
In this condition the butts are left piled up for a few days, so that the dubbin penetrates the leather, which is then extended with the sleeker (Fig.
Of course, it is well known to the currying trade, having for several centuries formed the basis, together with cod oil, of the dubbin used in stuffing waxed leather and belting butts.
We don't polish steel, but there is a wonderful lot of hard work in rubbing dubbin into all the leather.
The fibre was removed from my cell, my apartment was clean and tidy, a bit of dubbin gave an air of newness to my old shoes, and after a good wash and an energetic use of my three-inch comb, I was ready for the festivities of the season.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dubbin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
