To Make Linen Glossy--When a gloss is desired for linen goods, add a teaspoonful of salt to the starch when making.
To Prevent Starch from Sticking to the Iron--Borax and oily substances added to starch will increase the gloss on the article to be ironed and will also prevent the starch from sticking to the iron.
A tall girl, with large dark-blue eyes, ivory outlines, and a gloss of darkness on her smooth hair.
There was a gloss as of brown nuts on her satin-smooth hair and a soft, ripe glow on her round cheeks.
Time passed on, Winter, Spring, were gone, and the glory and gloss of Summer were now lavished over the happy earth.
They put aside the doctrine, theygloss it over, they prefer not to speak of it.
The sentence recording this habitual ejaculation, in VG, breaks so awkwardly into the sense of the passage in which it is found, that it must be regarded as a marginal gloss which has become incorporated with the text.
It is probably a marginalgloss taken into the text.
The water, indeed, of the river Oxus, is said to be the smoothest to the feeling of all waters, and to leave a gloss on the skins of those who bathe themselves in it.
Ellen said nothing, but in her heart she pitied them, and was even willing to gloss over all the Captain's faults out of her love to his brother.
However your noble mind may gloss over his attempted injuries to yourself, remember he stands amenable to the laws he has broken.
They shall suck of the abundance of the seas; the glossupon it, interpreting the word Chalson is, it comes out of the sea to the mountains, and with its blood they die purple, which is sold at a very dear price.
The gloss of Pulgar, whose authority as a contemporary must be considered decisive, plainly proves it to have been directed against Henry IV.
Go, grasp the shadow of your vanished power; 260 Gloss o'er the failure of each fondest scheme; Your strength a name, your bloated wealth a dream.
Only the Ranters had made them threadbare at an alehouse, and the Quakers have set a new gloss upon them again, by an outward legal holiness, or righteousness.
How many women's hearts he broke, how many fair young lives he blighted, will all be known on that terrible day when sin is called by its right name, and there is no gloss thrown over it.
The soft tone and the gloss of unbleached thread give the work an antique look, unobtainable in a white material.
Silk has the finest gloss but when it is strongly twisted it is very apt to knot, and when loosely twisted, does not make firm knots.
I shut my grave Aquinas fast; The monkish gloss of ages past, The schoolman's creed aside I cast.
This is the manner in which colour and gloss were given to Hellenic terra-cottas.
I like the idea of Maggie audacious and impudent--learning to be so to gloss things over.
It was not easy for him, in spite of accumulations fondly and funnily regarded as of systematic practice, not now to be ashamed; the one thing comparatively easy would be to gloss over his course.
I am not here to justify the past, gloss over the problems of the present, or propose easy solutions for the future.
It gives a good stiffness to old straw hats, and a beautifulgloss equal to new.
It is also said to be used in other parts of China as a sizing for paper and cotton goods, for imparting a gloss to silk, and as a furniture polish.
The latter gloss is misplaced, since it clearly describes "Nineveh," mentioned in v.
A nice little black silk pelisse was hung on the stand opposite me; it was nice; a goodgloss was upon the silk, the article was in the neatest style, and trimmed with great simplicity.
