It is, however, deeper and more symmetrical than the Thrush's nest, and it is sometimes plastered with cow-dung instead of with mud.
The nest is deep, well made, plastered inside with mud, and concealed in the centre of a large bush or low tree.
Three days later it returned with a new mate, and immediately the two birds began carrying pellets of mud to the oven, with which theyplastered up the entrance.
The nest is like that of a Thrush, being deep, compactly made of dry grass and slender sticks, plastered inside with mud, and lined with hair or soft dry grass.
The nest is made in the centre of a thick bush or tree six or eight feet above the ground, and is a deep elaborate structure, plastered inside with mud, and lined with soft dry grass.
I think they use their curved bill much oftener for probing in the ground than for searching the bark of trees, as many of those shot had the base of the bill and the frontal feathers plastered with mud.
If he staked upon an 8, the number was plastered and covered with gold and notes.
The initiation takes place in a room, the walls and floor of which have been plastered with mud, and here and there daubed with sandal paste.
The room is then plastered over with cow-dung, and on the thirteenth day after, the village or family priest must cook and eat his food in this room.
The practice was common to the Greek as well as to the barbarian mysteries, and according to Mr. Lang, "the idea clearly was that by cleaning away the filth plastered over the body was symbolized the pure and free condition of the initiate.
In Upper India the houses of the pious are freely plastered with a mixture of earth and cow-dung, and no animal is yoked.
The whole is immediately plastered up with a mixture of clay and cow-dung, and the wood is carefully buried on the site selected for the Deohar or local shrine.
So she made a basket, and plastered it inside with pitch, so that it would be water-tight and float like a boat.
When they saw his mud-plastered clothes, they all began to laugh, for Lawyer Lincoln did not often have a new suit of clothes.
We got wet, scratched, and plastered with mire all over our nether garments.
We stood before her, plastered with the same mud (Fyne was a sight!
The top of this was plastered with mud, and at both sides was left a narrow sluice, or wash, through which the water ran smoothly off, without wearing away the breastwork.
We knew that they were also plastered inside, so as to render them warm and commodious in winter.
The houses were all plastered over with mud, which, by the flapping of the tails and the constant paddling of the broad web-feet, had become as smooth as if the mud had been laid on with a trowel.
As the eye-brows are plastered with it, as well as the rest of the hair, and as it softens by the heat of the room and of the body, it frequently steals into the eyes, and produces great pain.
Their hair, plastered down with camelia oil, is a veritable work of art.
The fingers are occasionally passed through it, and then with the palms of the hands it is plastered down on both sides.
Because I have lately had my chateau of Pierrefonds which was gray with age, plastered white.
A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).
A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance.
Near by, there were nine or ten of his wives all well past the prime of life, withered and haggish, with heads shaven and facesplastered with lime as a token of mourning.
Returning to my canoe I passed some of Gorai's head-men who had plastered their foreheads and a part of their cheeks with lime, an observance, however, which was not followed by either the chief or his sons.
Sometimes a tube of bamboo is fitted into the orifice of the vessel to form a neck, the whole being plastered over with the red cement and looking like some antique earthen jar.
Across my battered face is plasteredthe fur of my flying-cap.
Looking in the glass, I see an unfamiliar distorted face with a great enormous cheek, and wet hair plastered about the forehead.
It stood there with bare, dun-colored plastered walls.
She saw a cherry-red sofa with embroidered antimacassars symmetrically plasteredon its old-fashioned scroll arms.
Many of them were plastered with blood, her own blood, which had squirted from the knife wound her mother had inflicted, and covered large spots with black and reddish brown stains.
His yellow hair had been plastered low on his brow, to be swept back each side of the part in a gracious curve; his thick yellow moustache curled jauntily upward, to show white teeth as he smiled.
Its walls were perhaps twenty feet high and built of rough stones plastered together with mud and interspersed with courses of timber.
To make a cow give good milk, a little should be plastered on some favorite stone near the tomb of a holy man.
Her face was first plastered all over with little ornaments cut out of silver paper and stuck on with white of egg; then she was covered over entirely with a large violet veil.
One of them was a strikingly handsome dark girl, dressed in gorgeous coloured native silks and velvet, and literally plastered with ornaments from the face and hair downwards.
The bride was plastered over with ornaments and her head was bedecked with a great crown of feathers.
But with the return of winter, Hulda's illness returned, and then the beloved books began to leave bare the nakedness of the plastered walls.
Wet and plastered with mud, they had lost one of the paddles.
Softening the four elk sinews in the hot glue, Pitamakan then plastered a pair of them on each bow.
The walls had been smoothed outside, and plastered inside; and the surface still remained firm, although it was evident it had been exposed to great heat from the fire.
In girls, before marriage, it is allowed to grow long, and is coloured white by washing it with a solution of lime, except a portion around the crown, which is plastered with a black pigment.
The two came out, and the plastered Italian went to the stables: the melancholy punster conducted Henry into the arena, and stood beside him like Patience on a monument.
The clown dived into the public-house, and told a dark seedy man, with his black hair plastered and rolled effeminately, that he had got a bloke who would stand a quid for a mount.
London and the provinces were now plastered with recruiting posters, calling in compelling language for soldiers.
The hoardings of the Kingdom were plastered with it on the morning of August 8.
She laughed when she saw her father's theatre-notices plastered about.
And so, early in October the place was ready, and Woodhouse was plastered with placards announcing "Houghton's Pleasure Palace.
