Believe me, I pray you, that it is not niggardly cheese-paring or Treasury crabbedness, but only considerations of high state policy which compel me to sever ties in many ways most binding and pleasant.
Put into a stone jar two ounces of cream of tartar, and the juice and paring of two lemons.
Put at the top some small strips of orange paringcut thin, or some preserved chips.
Or, take off a slice from the stalk end of some apples, and core without paring them.
Benny set about paring potatoes as if he had but just come on duty.
Mrs. Buck groaned out something about waste and sadly began paring potatoes, although it was then quite early in the forenoon and the trolleymen's supper was not to be served until six-thirty.
Judith found the two ladies busily engaged in paring peaches.
She stopped long enough to get a paringknife and bowl for the visitor.
Prepare the fruit by careful washing, picking over, paring and cutting.
Making convenient for eating, sometimes byparing or cutting or expressing the juices.
Silver knife for paringand slicing, glass lemon squeezer, a grater, a strainer, and a saucepan.
The colony could never hope to hold up its head by the side of its enterprising neighbour while such a cheese-paring system prevailed.
The cheese-paring policy went for something, but it was almost lost sight of in the much more effective imputation of disloyalty to the Empire.
Take good sour apples, wash and wipe them, cut out any black spots upon the skin, and cut them up without paring or coring.
Choose fair, smooth ones; put them into cold water and boil them whole, without paring and without sugar.
Take any juicy, sour apples; wash and wipe them very clean, and cut them up without paring or taking out the cores.
For making up into rugs, send animal skins to a good tanner, first skinning out the ears and paring out lips and nose.
When plaster is set, surface the shell and remove all inequalities by paring with an ordinary small butcher-knife.
With a small, hardwood paring "beam," shown in Fig.
Binders must understand that the velvety finish can only be obtained by an undue pulling down of the skin previous to the tanning process or an undue paringon the part of the binder.
She was seated at a table with a ham bone before her, and from it was paring the last rags of the meat.
It's awful to spend your whole life toiling and aching and worrying and scraping and paring just on the hither side of starving to death; and yet, if it was only yourself, you could stand it.
He had known poor men in college, and plenty of chaps who were down on their luck; but the daily pinching and paring of whole families just to have enough to eat and to wear was so new as to astonish him.
The fire in the front room was burning up finely now, but Miss Fortune had no idea of having pork-chopping or apple-paring done there.
When she was gone, the company sat down again to business; and apple-paring went on more steadily than ever for a while, till the bottom of the barrels was seen, and the last basketful of apples was duly emptied.
About half-past eight the choppers went up and joined the company, who were paring apples; the circle was a very large one now, and the buzz of the tongues grew quite furious.
The leather corners are cut slant-wise at the outset, and the paring is done so that the thinning begins exactly at the edge of the board.
The book is lying throughout on the paring stone, not upon the press-board.
Insufficient paring of the corners or using only the fingers for turning-in causes very thick edges; such work is out of date and would not be done by any thoughtful workman.
It is here of the utmost importance that the greatest attention should be given to careful paring of the leather, especially seeing that the leather is not too thick in the joint; if so, it must be reduced to the required thickness.
Ability in paring does not entirely depend upon the skilful use of the knife but also upon the way the left hand manipulates the leather and upon a thorough knowledge of the nature of the leather.
The paring knife, of which there are various kinds, is used for this work.
This strip is pared very narrowly along both sides with a sharp knife on the so-called paring stone.
Machines for scraping and paring leather are used least of all, as there is little for them to do in a small bookbindery.
For paring all thick leathers or large surfaces it surpasses all other makes in execution.
The quickestparing knife is made after the French pattern.
He produced a cutty-pipe, black and foul with age, and a cake of tobacco like a piece of shoe-leather, which he began paring with his knife.
He was paring a cake of very black tobacco for the pipe which he had stuck between his teeth.
And the Witch gave the Maid in one paper the powder, in another the leaves, and in the third, the paring of the Nayls; all which the Maid was to give to her Mistress.
The closer the paring and clipping the better, if blood be not drawn.
If the disease is in the first stage--that is, if there are merely erosion and ulceration of the cuticle and flesh in the cleft above the walls of the hoof--no paring is necessary.
Each then takes a knife, and the process of paring away the horn commences, upon the effectual performance of which all else depends.
It would, undoubtedly, accomplish this at any time of year, and even during the first and most malignant prevalence of the contagion, provided the paring was sufficiently thorough.
Little girls often help about the dwelling by paring camotes for the forthcoming meal.
A labor generally performed each morning is the paring of camotes.
Any time of day they may be seen close to the a'-fong in the shade of the low, projecting roof sitting spinning or paring camotes; often three or four neighbors sit thus together and gossip.
The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair.
A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.
It was not the practical farrier that introduced the stupid "paring and cutting" that ruined horses' feet for nearly a century.
A drawing knife is formed with great skill for the purpose of paring out the concave sole of the hoof, and has done infinite harm.
Too often this condition is treated by paring away the sole within, which increases the deformity.
Paring away the sole= to produce a deep concave appearance has another evil effect in addition to that before pointed out.
It may cause an uneven pressure at the toe on a flat sole, but this is easily avoided by not making it too wide; perhaps the very worst thing to do with a flat foot is to try and make it look less flat by paring it down.
The excessive paring of corns is the chief reason of the difficulty of getting permanently rid of them.
Constant cutting away of the bars and paring the frog so that it takes no contact with the ground also leads to shrinking in of the heels.
This paring will discover any pebbles larger than a pea that may have remained in the clay.
It is like paring off the bark of a log by rolling it round against a sharp knife, with these differences, however, that the paring is as thin as paper, and that it is part of the log itself, and goes on until the broken centre is reached.
The man who cuts up the pith has a long, sharp knife, which he places against the side of the roll of pith in such a way that it will take off a thin paring as he turns the roll round and round.
When thirteen years old he made an apple-paring machine, with which at the "paring bees" held in the neighborhood he could accomplish more than a dozen girls.
Defn: The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.
Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.
The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair.
Turfing iron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.
She must then turn round three times, casting the paring over her left shoulder, and it will form the first letter of her husband's name; but if the paring breaks into many pieces so that no letter is discernible, she will never marry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
