There he swung amid cobwebs and bats, fearful every time the basket creaked he should fall into the blood-stained sawdust of the cock-pit.
So, brushing the sawdust off the doup of one of them, and slipping it into my coat pocket, which was gey an' large, I popped at leisure up the close to pay my neighbour a friendly visit.
Take a piece of similar wood, and reduce it to fine sawdust by means of a rasp.
A very perfect resemblance to carved wood may be made by taking cocoa-nut powder or fine sawdust and mixing it with the acidulated glue, so as to make a paste as already described.
Spray or sprinkle the glue over the figure, and, if necessary, gradually throw on it fine sawdust or other powder.
He put the “longing” into the long trail with a dash of Sundayesqueness that smeared sawdust all over the long trail.
Place one ounce of cyanide of potassium into the bottle and pour in enough dry sawdust to cover the lumps of poison.
The floor of the cote should be covered with sawdust or gravel to the depth of half an inch.
The three bases should be canvas bags filled with sawdust and fastened to their positions by pegs that are driven into the ground.
For this purpose the ground is preferable to a frame, and a layer of sawdust better than the bare floor; but the most proper situation would be a stream of running water.
Dry it over a wood fire, and put a pint of oak sawdust into the water when it is boiled.
Six or eight hours will smoke them, and there should be only a little sawdust and wet straw burnt to do this; but if put into a baker's chimney, sew them in a coarse cloth, and hang them a week.
It would be needless to say, that the forge was by no means as pleasant an occupation, to my youthful mind, as the daring life on the sawdust of the arena.
But for my long experience as a boy on the sawdustof the arena, it would have been absolutely useless for me to have attempted regaining my feet.
I watched him and found that the feeding-troughs were not cleaned at all, and when the birds scattered the sawdustin them the food was thrown on that, the ducklings consuming both.
All along one side of the barn were a row of stalls, fourteen of them, clean as yet, redolent of new cut wood, the sawdust still in the cracks of the flooring.
The aroma of new-sawn timber and sawdust began to be mingled with the feminine odour of sachet and flowers.
One of these is of "Opportunities to Sell Waste" and contains the names of firms which use sawdust and small pieces of wood.
Sawdust is used also in the manufacture of inlaid linoleum and dynamite.
If he sees reddish-brown masses of pitch and sawdust on the bark of a tree he immediately recognizes it as the work of insects.
A Philadelphia firm, engaged in the manufacture of composition flooring, has been able to obtain a portion of its sawdust from a New York lumber company.
The acid is made on a large scale by mixing pine sawdust to a stiff paste with a solution containing caustic soda and potash.
Last winter we could not get any ice, and my scions were just as good kept in the sawdust as if we had had ice; and I grafted those scions in August and the grafts are living.
The best way is to use your scions from last year that have been kept in cold storage in sawdust or leaves.
But I have always preferred February myself, cutting them the last of February before the buds begin to start, then put them in sawdust in the icehouse or cold storage, or bury them under a thick layer of leaves.
The scions employed were cut in late winter and kept in the sawdust of my icehouse.
I formerly supposed that ice beneath the sawdust was important, but this year I could not get ice and the scions kept just as well.
Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.
An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds.
Laminitis ("founder") is a frequent sequel of superpurgation and is to be guarded against by removing the shoes and standing the horse on moist sawdust or some similar bedding.
The feet are to be kept moist and the horn from drying out by the use of damp sawdust or other bedding; by occasional poultices of boiled turnips, linseed meal, etc.
A handful of sawdust thrown into the bottom of each nest-hole will supply the place of the absorbent rotten wood to which these birds are accustomed.
Sifted coal ashes, land plaster, and dry sawdust are sometimes used instead of earth on the droppings boards.
These plants are found on pine and fir trunks and on sawdust heaps.
This plant is quite common about Chillicothe, especially upon sawdust piles.
The eggs in the sawdustcan be gathered by the bushel.
It grows about old stumps, but a favorite habitat seems to be upon old sawdust piles.
Found in grassy lawns and on old sawdust piles, in common with Pluteus cervinus.
It is found on logs, stumps, and especially on old sawdust piles.
It seems to delight to grow in well rotted sawdust piles and hot houses.
This purification of the gas takes place in the apparatus L, where the gas passes through perforated trays m, covered with sawdust mixed with lime and sulphate of iron.
A similar means is employed for cementing sawdust into a solid mass, called cylolite, used for flooring, &c.
On the floors of your hutches spread sawdust (pinewood sawdust is first-rate when it can be had), and over this some nice clean straw; and always keep in the hutch a little of one of the many disinfectants that are now manufactured.
If husks cannot be got conveniently, little wooden boxes (which should have some sawdust put in so that the eggs will not roll about) holes in the wall, or a rotten wood log will do.
They gathered him up out of the sawdust and put him in a nail keg and carried him away, but he did not speak again.
The red-headed woodpecker selects, by preference, a partly decayed tree in which to excavate a hole for its nest, because the digging is easier, and the sawdust and chips make a softer lining than green wood.
The heap of sawdust at the bottom of the hollow will eventually cradle from four to six glossy-white eggs.
