Still, though you sometimes lay the paint on too thick, I have hitherto found you well-informed and square; and we should rather you did the right thing of your own accord.
It certainly was different from anything I had seen at home, for here in place of paint and gilding the decoration was in harmony with the country, bizarre and bountiful, with a beauty that was distinctly its own.
Does not the heathen lacquer her dark face, and the harlot paint her cheeks, because sorrow has made them pale?
Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed with vermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.
It was very attractive in its fresh paint and obviously it had just been finished.
In vain do the directors of the school order the ledge to be coated with paint and sand mixed together--nothing is proof against his knife; were it adamant he would cut his name upon it.
To paint the wholesale wickedness and small villanies of the Corn-laws!
Touches of paint showed on her yellowish cheeks, and her false teeth gave to her thin-lipped mouth a rather too full, harsh expression.
He looked closely at the paint on the mullions and searched for flaws in the glass.
We are laying off to put a fresh coat of paint on it in the fall.
Aunt Jane said she used too much paint and that she was getting fat.
Within twenty feet of him the flames were lapping the paint from the thin woodwork on which he stood.
He rather attacks than avoids a man, and such is the terror which he has inspired, that the Indians who go in quest of him paint themselves and perform all the superstitious rites customary when they make war on a neighboring nation.
An Indian on the opposite side drove him back to them; but in crossing most of the articles were lost and the paint melted.
Margaret looked at her and for the first time realised the change in her appearance, the quiet colours of her dress, the absence of paint on her cheeks, the moderation of the hat.
It sees the young prima donna step upon the stage for the first time, smiling in the paint that perhaps hides her deadly pallor.
You shall come to my cottage in the autumn, when we have the vintage, and there you will find old Bonanni looking after the work in a ragged straw hat, with no paint on her cheeks.
Whistler would paint the actor who had created the Philip of the stage.
During the run Henry commissioned him to paint a picture of the Church Scene, which was hung in the Beefsteak Room.
The artist was lost in admiration of Henry's face, and expressed a strong desire to paint him.
Mr. Sargent first of all thought that he would paint me at the moment when Lady Macbeth comes out of the castle to welcome Duncan.
I don't know what the attraction was for them, except that they may have liked nibbling the paint off the canvas.
She had a studio in Southampton Row, and another at Newmarket where she went to paint horses.
Once while he was talking to me, when he was making up, he absently took a white lily out of a bowl on the table and began to stripe and dot the petals with the stick of grease-paint in his hand.
So then I never left off asking Henry to sit to Sargent, who wanted to paint him too, and said to me continually, "What a head!
Yes, I am certain that I should never paint again if I saw much of those hopeless lives that have no remedy.
All the garish display, the paint and tawdry finery, of the old gambling days, had gone.
The four rooms became immaculately clean--sweetened up with soap and water, with neat wallpaper, with paint and furniture.
Fact, Robina; we heard a new fellow was coming who had converted a Cherokee, and that the Bishop had christened him in his war paint and feathers.
No sooner had the Hurons broken rank, than there rushed from the woods scores of Iroquois, daubed in war-paint and shouting their war-cry.
At the same instant the soldier recognized him as a Frenchman, and oblivious of the Mohawks' presence blurted out his discovery in Iroquois dialect, vowing that for all the paint and grease, this youth was a white man below.
How could you paint a picture without distinction of form, colour, or tone?
No words can paint the mixture of delicacy, energy, and sensibility with which Rodin uttered these sentiments.
We must renounce the attempt topaint the delight, the transport of Gabriel and Agricola, of Dagobert, and Marshal Simon's father, of Samuel and Bathsheba.
If you think it is your vocation to paint pictures, paint pictures with all your might.
Kate made no comment, but quietly asked if the smell of the paint had ceased to affect Miss Russell.
If I cannotpaint good pictures, Kate, I will not paint bad ones.
There comes a time, when, of his own accord, a man gives up passion; but when does the unlucky wight who has once begun to write poetry or paint pictures give them up?
No more there is; and you must learn and paint pictures too.
Must you not work to become a great artist, paint fine pictures, and become famous?
Not a bit," he promptly replied; "I consider every picture I paint as a step taken to the altar.
Paint the whole, crown it with regard for good manners, for society does not like to hear the truth about itself.
How has Nathan sinned, That Daja seeks to paint my happiness So far removed from his?
We paint with eyes of love, and the eyes of love alone must judge our works.
Several coats of paint and varnish have to be applied, and innumerable coloured lines introduced, before it is ready to receive the more artistic touches.
A coat of thick white paint administered below, completes the operation, and Parmentier is erect again, and apparently none the worse for his disaster.
One more layer of paint early next morning, and the statue is faultless, and ready for being borne triumphantly from our studio to its destination.
The wizen, careworn face of the average monkey appeals to me as does that of the elderly and rheumatic circus-clown, when his paint has washed off.
The gondola made its alleged monthly visit to the squero to have its bottom cleaned at Mr. Mildmay's expense, and the amount of repairs and paint which it needed did seem unexpectedly large.
His helmet was off, lying on the ground at his feet; and it was easy to see why the artist had chosen to paint the sitter with his head uncovered.
An' yuh done it 'cause Mr. Rogers leaved Jessup paint the house when yuh thought yuh ought t' had the job.
Are you so certain, old man, that you won't be able to paintany more, that you won't have any relapse?
And I promise you that if you begin scribbling or publishing poems in which you paint your passion for me, and sing to the world the progress of our love--it's all up with our wedding, and off I go.
So you see that one isn't necessarily bound to be quite an ass even though one doesn't write any novels or paint any pictures.
Yuh 'member what yuh done t' Rogers when he didn't leave yuh paint his bath-house?
How could I help it if I wasn't able to paint any more?
The scales had fallen from my eyes, and I could as much paint again as I could become a child again.
I cannot write books nor paint pictures; charities bore me and I never shall marry.
When he made a pile he set himself diligently to "paint the nearest town red.
Triturating face-paint by pounding and kneading; in one case the specimen served as a hand implement, while in another case it took the place of the ahst, the ocher lump itself being struck and rubbed against it.
The variations in individual designs are apparently due either to varying care in the application of the paint or to the degree of obliteration by wear—e.
Here is the news of the village; La Berrueca has married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn up.
