Ay, and the very parings of our nails Shall pitch a field when we are dead.
Quickly he shaved off some fine parings of this wood.
The fair maid of Fayal took the paringsin a gourd full of water.
He wrapped them up carefully and took them to the fair maid of Fayal as if they were parings from the nails of the miracle-working image.
Tears of thankfulness filled her eyes when she saw theparings which he had brought her.
Cover the jar with gauze; add more paringsand cores occasionally.
Bring me then of the nail parings one, of his hairs one, and of his spittle.
In the West of Northumberland it is thought that if the first parings of a child's nails are buried under an ash-tree, the child will turn out a fine singer.
For the same reason the clipped hair and nail-parings of chiefs in Southern Nigeria are secretly buried.
The Zend-Avesta directs that the clippings of hair and the parings of nails shall be placed in separate holes, and that three, six, or nine furrows shall be drawn round each hole with a metal knife.
If theparings are too large, they are minced small and so gulped down.
Again, the parings of nails may serve the same purpose as the clippings of hair; they too may be treated as bail for the good behaviour of the persons from whose fingers they have been cut.
Some of the Esthonians keep the parings of their finger and toe nails in their bosom, in order to have them at hand when they are asked for them at the day of judgment.
For the same reason the natives of Uap, one of the Caroline Islands, either burn or throw into the sea the clippings of their hair and the parings of their nails.
The Madi or Moru tribe of central Africa bury the parings of their nails in the ground.
The Thompson Indians used to burn the parings of their nails, because if an enemy got possession of the paringshe might bewitch the person to whom they belonged.
M165 Belief that people may be bewitched through the clippings of their hair, the parings of their nails, and other severed parts of their persons.
A Maori sorcerer intent on bewitching somebody sought to get a tress of his victim's hair, the parings of his nails, some of his spittle, or a shred of his garment.
Similarly the Arabs of Moab bestow the parings of their nails in the crannies of walls, where they are sanguine enough to expect to find them when they appear before their Maker.
When the nobles pare their nails, the parings are collected to the last scrap and swallowed by these ramanga.
In North Guinea the parings of the finger-nails and the shorn locks of the head are scrupulously concealed, lest they be converted into a charm for the destruction of the person to whom they belong.
When the nobles pare their nails, the parings are collected to the last scrap and swallowed by these ramanga.
A Roman cure for fever was to pare the patient's nails, and stick the parings with wax on a neighbour's door before sunrise; the fever then passed from the sick man to his neighbour.
It is their business to eat all the nail-parings and to lick up all the spilt blood of the nobles.
Similarly the Turks never throw away the parings of their nails, but carefully stow them in cracks of the walls or of the boards, in the belief that they will be needed at the resurrection.
Ramanga, men who eat up the nail-parings and lick up the spilt blood of nobles among the Betsileo, iii.
Boil the parings in water for fifteen minutes, allowing a pint to one pound of fruit.
Put the parings and hard pieces into a stewpan, with sufficient water to cover them, and boil for 1 hour.
Boil the parings in a little water, and strain it: to a pound of fruit add three quarters of a pound of fine sifted sugar, and a glass of the water in which the parings were boiled.
Pare and core the fruit, after being wiped clean; then boil the cores and parings in a little water, till it tastes well.
They should have curds, green cheeseparings cut small, and bread and milk with chopped wormwood in it.
As soon as they have gained a little strength, feed them with curd, cheese parings cut small, or any soft food, but nothing that is sour, and provide them with clean water twice a day.
Then put it into a cask, strain the spirit from the parings of the oranges and lemons, and add as much more to it as will make it up five gallons.
Put the parings into an earthen pan, with as much rum or brandy as will cover them.
Take thirty Seville oranges and thirty lemons quite sound, pare them very thin, and put the parings into an earthen pan, with as much rum or brandy as will cover them.
With theparings of the finger-nails which Christians cut on the Sunday.
With the parings of the finger-nails which Christians cut on Sundays?
And I put my bluff across, for my mother flung the parings into my face and burst into tears.
There,' I said, as I put the parings into her hand.
When Allison came in half an hour later, she found them whirling apple parings around their heads and flinging them over their shoulders, to see what initials they would form in falling.
Why, I don't mind one bit telling you girls that I like Charlie Downs better than any boy I know, and that I felt glad when my apple parings made his initials every time I threw them over my shoulder on Hallowe'en.
The girls carried two pails of sour milk and a great basket of parings to their greedy pigs and watched them feed without interest.
It seemed to take endless gallon pails of sour milk and baskets of fruit parings to satisfy her.
I should recommend that they cut the parings about two-tenths of an inch in thickness, as those parings which I saw planted always had the eye left in them entire, and the root of the germ not in the least wounded.
In England and Scotland, I have seen the parings of potatoes planted as seed; and at the same time I was told that they yielded quite as plentifully as cuttings with three eyes, or even whole potatoes.
He'd read something somewhere about hair clippings and nail parings being used for some strange purpose.
He began noticing that she carefully dumped his fingernail parings into a small jar.
We also have cuttings from your hair and your beard; we have the parings of your nails, five cubic centimeters of your spinal fluid and a scraping from your liver.
Some Hindus think that the nail-parings should always be thrown into a frequented place, where they will be destroyed by the traffic.
The rules for disposing of the cut hair usually apply to the parings of nails, and the first teeth are also deposited in a rat's hole or on the roof of the house.
Many Esthonians and Lithuanians still hide their nail-parings as carefully as possible, or else make a cross over them lest the devil should find them and use them to make a wishing-hat.
Let strong colonies be deprived of some of their combs, after the honey harvest is over, and supplied abundantly with these parings of wax.
She carefully explores all the cracks and crevices about the bottom-board, and if she finds a suitable place under them, lays her eggs among the parings of the combs, and other refuse matter which has fallen from the hive.
Very fine parings may be shaved off with glass, and if given to the bees, under favorable circumstances, it seems to me very probable that they would use them, just as they do the scales which are formed in their wax pouches.
Put the parings and imperfect parts, cut very fine, into the preserving kettle.
To make quince jelly of a second quality, when the parings and fruit are put on to cook put the cores into another kettle and cover them generously with water and cook two hours.
After all the juice has been drained from the parings and fruit, put what remains into the preserving kettle with the cores.
In Norway the parings of nails are either burned or buried, lest the elves or the Finns should find them and make them into bullets wherewith to shoot the cattle.
The Madi or Moru tribe of Central Africa bury the parings of their nails in the ground.
Similarly the Turks never throw away the parings of their nails, but carefully keep them in cracks of the walls or of the boards, in the belief that they will be needed at the resurrection.
The Zend Avesta directs that the clippings of hair and the parings of nails shall be placed in separate holes, and that three, six, or nine furrows shall be drawn round each hole with a metal knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
