The latter is perhaps the better plan, for the washing will remove the objectionable 'dressing' that renders the material rather hard and stiff.
And perhaps it is, for it is the source of a powerful odour of fennel--one of the food plants of the caterpillar--that may possibly prove objectionable to some of its numerous enemies.
A common and very objectionable practice followed in harvesting Rotundifolia grapes, especially by the jarring method, is that of gathering the fruit all at once, whereas there should be at least three periods of harvesting.
The skin is thick and tough but is not objectionable in fruit fully ripe.
If girdling results at the top, it is not objectionable as the head of the vine should be below rather than above the wire.
The grapes are sprightly and vinous, and neither seeds nor skin are as objectionable as in the parent.
This, however, is not often necessary with properly handled vines and is objectionable because it makes large wounds in the trunk.
The flesh, also, shows Vitis vinifera in texture and quality, while neither seeds nor skins are as objectionable as in pure-bred American varieties.
The pulp, seeds and skins are somewhat objectionable in all of the native species and scarcely so at all in the Old World sorts.
Steam is also apt, in such cases, to escape in quantities into the room; so that it becomes necessary to search for other methods of heating the bath; one or two of the least objectionable of which I shall describe.
Here and there, too, the owners of noxious trades were being compelled to adopt methods rendering their businesses less insanitary and objectionable to their neighbourhoods.
I know nothing more objectionable in a sanitary point of view than the washing of foul clothes in the dwellings of the poor, and still worse the drying of them in courts and rooms already deficient of free circulation of air and light.
The newness of a house, however, gave no guarantee of its sanitary fitness, and a great proportion of them were of the most objectionable and insanitary description.
The second objectionable element on the Ohio was the presence of tramps, rough boatmen, and scoundrels of all kinds.
Thus divested of all objectionable matter, the cabbage could be eaten raw, though it was much improved by cooking, the boiling process removing every trace of the acrid, or turnip, flavor.
More reasonable is the explanation that they hastened the work because they feared that their neighbours might either hinder it or wish to have a share in it--an equally objectionable thing, as subsequent events showed.
Warm fomentations applied to the abdomen are sometimes very serviceable, and are objectionable only because of their liability to dampen the bed-clothes.
It is entirely devoid of objectionable features, being always applied outside the clothing.
In consequence of being generally used at meal times, their stimulant properties are employed to promote digestion, and consequently they are not so objectionable as they might otherwise be.
Emerson unsuccessfully endeavoured to persuade the author to suppress the moreobjectionable parts.
He then returned to the house of his benefactor, but his conduct was soobjectionable as to lead to a rupture.
It was many years before the results of painstaking effort and persistent study cleared up the causes of all the objectionable aspects of the fur dyes, and suggested means of overcoming them satisfactorily.
While these alkaline mordants seem to have much in their favor, there are certain possible objectionable features which must be considered.
The new type of dyes did possess some of the advantages claimed for them, but they also possessed many highly objectionable features, which had never been manifest with the vegetable dyes.
Permanent hardness is particularly objectionable in water for boiler purposes, as it forms scale.
Suspended matter, like mud, contains much objectionable matter such as putrefactive organisms and iron, but most of these materials can be removed by filtration or sedimentation, and seldom cause any difficulties.
Their words range from a grunt to gushing exuberance; and one is as objectionable as the other.
To talk "shop" in Verdi's hearing is objectionable to him, and no act of indiscretion could be greater than the one of begging a musical question or discussion.
This objectionable feature stamps Verdi's Requiem from beginning to end.
But the voluptuous nature of some of the descriptions induced the Attorney General to enjoin the sale of the book, and Lewis bowed to public opinion so far as to suppress the objectionable passages in later editions.
The word Speaker is etymologically less objectionable than the term President, for the personage in question never sits down, but mingles in the crowd like the ordinary members.
On certain steamers on the Sea of Azof the privacy of the sleeping-cabin is disturbed by still more objectionable intruders; I mean rats.
The heroes are manly boys, and no objectionable language or character is introduced.
In some instances the treatment of the husband is perhaps what may be called of a less objectionable character, as in the fabliau of La Vilain Mire (the clown doctor), printed in Barbazan (iii.
But, as the character of the fool was usually given to one of the most objectionable characters in it, so, for this reason apparently, the fool in a play was called the Vice.
The chief causes of the washed material not passing the heat test are, either that the acids were not clean, or they contained objectionable impurities, or more frequently, the quality of the glycerine used.
They made themselves particularly objectionable in Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park; but she found that an appeal to a policeman or a Park-keeper, or to any decent workman, was enough to stop the nuisance.
If I hear anything nice, I believe it; but if I hear anything objectionable about any one, I either inquire about it or refuse to believe it point-blank.
And if there is, he must abstain from willing it even indirectly: that is, he must abstain from doing the action, which cannot be done without that objectionable circumstance attending it.
About this time there arose an objectionable class of men, who tried to ape the gentleman, but could not, and they went by the generic term of “Gents.
The school seemed sheer torture much of the time, and all its objectionable features seemed to centre in the Latin.
To him they appeared entirely like himself, but to his mother's eye they were evidently objectionable in the same way as the gutter.
The policy of buying up allobjectionable literature seems to me, I confess, very short-sighted, and in most cases would lead to a greatly increased reprint; it certainly would in these latitudes.
He was condemned to a fine of three hundred francs, a fine which was never paid, as the objectionable poems were removed.
He had expected, like Flaubert, to emerge from the trial with flying colours; therefore to be classed as one who wrote objectionable literature was a shock.
Confound the objectionable idiot, what did he mean by taking that intimate tone with a man who was not prepared to concern himself in his affairs?
He was a man with a good figure and a good voice, and but for a heaviness of feature the result of objectionable living, might have given the impression of being better looking than he really was.
When Brough had gone away to her far superior place, and she had been succeeded by one variety of objectionable or incompetent person after another, he had still continued to learn.
