There were feather-dusters enough in the family for their costumes, which would be then complete with their india-rubber boots.
At this moment they were dancing round the barberry bush, in a corner of the balcony in Mother Goose's quarters, their feather-dusters gayly waving in the air.
It is as if you, with your taste for elegant needlework, were set to hem dusters all day long!
We have had Machines running side by side with all the other kinds of Dusters and have always beaten them in quantity and quality of flour, and are ready at any time to put one to a test with any other Machine.
Dusters are things that native servants of every sort seem to consume in enormous quantities, and unless some check is put on it, the number used at the end of the month will be astonishing.
But Big Smith stood on the steps, still holding Tam Luke, and with a foot like a Sutton's furniture van, he tripped each one impartially as he passed, till quite a little haycock of Knuckle Dusters was formed at an angle of the stair.
So said the Society of the Knuckle Dusters as it winked amicably and collectively to itself.
Now this was the cause of the depression which for a long time had rested upon the Knuckle Dusters and tarnished the glory of their name.
The Knuckle Dusters on the landing above listened with curious qualms, hearing Tam singing out his petitions in a kind of inappeasable rapture.
The Knuckle Dusters had laid it down as a fundamental condition that no girls were to be permitted, or even encouraged.
On the side of the Knuckle Dusters the one unpardonable fault was "going with a swell.
The Knuckle Dusters thought it good sport to ascend to the window of the common stair, and prepare missiles both fluid and solid.
Several Knuckle Dusters passed Cleg the private wink of the society, but none dared intrude on that awful dignity of responsibility.
They had no sympathy with the Knuckle Dusters whatever.
She was then and there appointed, with acclamation, a full member of the honourable (or dishonourable, according to the point of view) society of the Knuckle Dusters of the Sooth Back.
So the Knuckle Dusters squared themselves up, and for the first time since the affair of Big Smith they looked a bobby in the face.
Among the Knuckle Dusters there was great jubilation.
Another blast like a steamer signal was blown before the dark tower, the Knuckle Dusters would throw their heads back to laugh, and then look at Cleaver's boy.
The dust they swished off with the feather dusters settled quietly back on the things, but why not?
Dum and Mary undertook to be housemaids, and such a spreading up of beds and flicking of dusters was never known.
I do not want in the very least really to know how dinner is cooked, how houses are managed, and the very names of chairs and dusters are properly obnoxious to me--or rather would be if we could only do without them.
Here the guns of his former enemies were supplanted by knives and knuckle-dusters and clubs; and the men who wielded them were cowardly, slinking foreigners whose very appearance was repugnant.
Before Conrad and Torrance arrived, knives and knife-ended knuckle-dusters and clubs were swinging.
If you were half as keen over the knives and knuckle-dusters of them fellows of yours!
Chub caught the flash of the knuckle-dusters and, being too far away to place himself shoulder to shoulder with Matt, he let fly with the stone he had been holding in his hand.
Brass knuckle-dusters glimmered on the fingers of Perry's right fist.
Vacuum cleaning, and sweeping and dusting with damp or "dustless" mops and dusters are good.
Ordinary brooms should be dampened or covered with damp cloths, and dust cloths should be dampened also; but dustless mops and dusters are still better.
Heavier dressing hides are tanned by methods similar to the above, but with floaters, dusters and occasionally layers added after they have passed through two sets of handlers.
Occasionally dusters or layers are given, especially for the heavier goods.
The backs next go through rounds of dusters (40 deg.
Angles and recesses which have no special excuse for being are easily converted into closets, one to be used as a hanging place for the various brooms, brushes, dustpans, and dusters in use about the house.
All dusters should be hemmed, otherwise the ravelings are apt to catch and pull down the bric-a-brac.
Instead he found next day, when his aunt had gone out shopping, a little square of cardboard at the back of the dresser drawer, among the dirty dusters and clothes pegs and string and corks and novelettes.
Bring back from the Clean Linen Store three dusters instead of the four dusters which you previously handed in at the Dirty Linen Store, and your cupboard will, to the end of time, be short of one duster which it should have possessed.
I noticed that she put it into her pocket before she dropped her dusters and stood up to lift her face for my kiss.
Old Stocking Tops for Dusters or Dustless Mop--Old stocking tops make good dusters when sewed together.
On no account must Laboratory towels or dusters be used for wiping up infectious material, and if such towels or dusters do become soiled, they must be immediately sterilised by boiling.
They wore long linen dusters with belts, and carried blankets done up in bridles, and he was positive they were the robbers.
They were for the most part powerfully built men, well dressed, with linen dusters and blankets strapped up in bridles.
When I arrived Kennedy was gingerly holding up the dusters which the crooks had worn.
Why do Indians wear feather dusters in their hair?
And they did look like featherdusters from that distance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dusters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
