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Example sentences for "papier"

Lexicographically close words:
papers; paperweight; paperwork; papery; papes; papilionaceous; papilla; papillae; papillary; papillate
  1. Good papier mache is one of the best materials for much modelling and wax for very fine work.

  2. Papier mache is also a good modeling material for stumps, limbs and rock, being light, and readily taking coats of glue or paint.

  3. There is on the market a papier mache background also adapted to any picture frame, called the "concave dust proof case.

  4. Plaster, putty, papier mache and various plastic cement materials are used for modeling mouths, of which papier mache is probably the best; plaster paris is often used in an emergency but is brittle and heavy.

  5. Some of these powdered and glued on papier mache or cork bark stumps and limbs produce a very pleasing effect.

  6. When the specimen is thoroughly dry, in two or three weeks, dig a sufficient amount of clay out of the eye opening and put in the glass eye, setting it in papier mache.

  7. The feet and bases of ears are filled with papier mache pulp and the surface of the manikin coated with liquid glue.

  8. Artificial branches and trees for mounting birds should be avoided if possible; they are made by wrapping tow around wires, coating with glue and covering with moss or papier mache and painting.

  9. The best papier maché is made of pure wood cellulose.

  10. When we come to papier maché, there is no end to the kinds of articles that are made of it.

  11. Papier maché is used for water pipes, the bodies of carriages, hencoops, and garages.

  12. The papier maché, or paper pulped, is made by kneading old newspapers or wrapping papers with warm water into a pulp.

  13. Whatman papers, Dutch papers, Chinese papers, and even papier verge, have all their admirers.

  14. Lalauze's engravings on "Whatman paper," have a beauty which could scarcely be guessed by people who have only seen specimens on "papier verge.

  15. Their papier maché is fairly made, elaborately painted and moderate in price.

  16. After noon I went and selected a lot of papier maché articles, and gave monograms to be painted upon them.

  17. The younger Mirabeau kept Necker from pursuing his plan to issue paper money with the words: du papier monnaie c’est la peste circulante!

  18. How he would stare if he came back to "The Miners' Arms" in a few hours and found me there with Connie, and the artistic Mr. Vargus cooling down in the patent papier mache handcuffs from Japan!

  19. These handcuffs are of papier mache and weigh practically nothing.

  20. I should have liked The Flood better if it had had more living figures and less papier mache, though I am not ashamed to admit that I have no idea how this could have been done.

  21. She was the only living figure on the car, everything else, even the terrified child, being of papier mache.

  22. The art of making paper-hangings, papier de tenture, has been copied from the Chinese, among whom it has been practised from time immemorial.

  23. After this boast, one would not expect to hear him immediately confess that in 1823 his country possessed only one manufactory of the papier continu, containing one of the Fourdrinier machines made at London by Mr. Donkin, for M.

  24. Papier Maché articles of all kinds should be washed with a sponge and cold water, without soap, dredged with flour while damp, and polished with a flannel or a silk handkerchief.

  25. Waiters of 'papier maché' should be washed with a sponge and cold water only, and dredged with flour while damp.

  26. L] A composition of papier maché, with which Dr.

  27. Well, take this key, go to my boudoir, in the fifth drawer of my papier mache black bureau, you will find a case of handkerchiefs.

  28. Then do go and bring me six handkerchiefs from my boudoir, in the fifth drawer of my black papier mache bureau.

  29. I concluded to give up right in my tracks, and let myself be wet down into papier mache by the descending elements.

  30. Swedish filtering paper (Papier Joseph is also very good) as the liquid will cover; it must be placed in it a single piece at a time.

  31. The collodion made from the Swedish filtering paper, or the papier Joseph, is preferable, from the much greater care with which it is used.

  32. Papier maché and lacquer work are also frequently found in small articles of furniture; and the collection of drawings by native artists attests the high skill in design and execution attained by Indian craftsmen.

  33. It is made of papier mache, and represents the human body with admirable perfection, in the shape, coloring, and arrangement, even to the minutest fibres.

  34. Think of the curé burning the only copy of Les Fleurs du Mal that Baudelaire had left in "papier d'Hollande," and the mother acquiescing.

  35. Dummy heads of papier mache were sometimes stuck above the parapet to draw the fire of enemy snipers and the bullet-holes which quickly appeared in them were studied to discover the location of the snipers.

  36. These applications must be quite separate and distinct; each on its own papier timbre, which you buy at any bureau de tabac.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.