Twice he set the room in a blaze, by poking shavingsinto the fire, and singed his mischievous head to the scalp, and had a violent attack of vomiting in consequence of licking the oil from Uncle Isaac’s oil-stone.
Having settled this pressing question, I stripped to the waist and had a good wash at the sink, drying myself as well as I could on the shavings which had served as a bed.
There I began to persuade myself that there was no danger to be feared from a mouse, and presently, returning to the corner, I shook out the shavings and pieces of paper until they somewhat resembled the shape of a bed.
Over the shavings I will spread a piece of old flannel.
A low, wide basket half full of shavings will make a soft bed," said Mrs. Grant.
With a sharp knife make a little pile of shavings whittled from the heart of the log.
Light them from underneath (which is the way all fires should be lighted), and coax the blaze by adding dry shavings as required until there is sufficient blaze to light the small wood which has been collected.
The two boys crawled forward, and although the heat was tremendous they managed to clear away the shavings for a considerable distance.
When we took the hose they crawled forward and got the shavings cleared away; that was how they burned their hands, I expect; and I hear they tumbled down insensible when they got out.
Bill and I will crawl forward and clear the shavings out of the way if we can.
When the machines stopped for any adjustment or alteration both were to sweep up the shavings and ram them into bags, in which they were carried to the engine-house.
There in the far corner of the cellar was a barrel of shavings blazing almost to the floor above.
No solution leached from the pulp, containing cyanide of potassium, gold and silver, need be run to waste, which is in itself an enormous saving over the use of zinc shavings when handling large quantities of pulp and solution.
After careful washing in the box, to cause all pure gold and zinc to fall to the bottom, the zinc shavings are taken out.
Clean white shavings fell on the floor, some of them twisting like Hepzebiah's curls.
The little white slivers and shavings covered the paper now.
Then he closed his knife, and picked up the paper and the shavings and the surprise, and out of the room he tiptoed.
Small pieces of toast or thin shavings of stale bread are added to the tureen just before serving to make the croute-au-pot.
Put a thin slice of lemon or a few shavings of lemon-zest into each glass.
And so, when he had put the shavings straight and made the other preparations, he went out to the bier in the passage and said: "I've finished now.
When the carpentering of the coffin was done, father put shavingsinside it as a pillow.
Vast quantities of the shavings of this wood are sold in a half-torrefied and ground state to disguise its obvious character, and to prevent its being recognised among the waste materials of the brewers.
When the men had gone Big McTavish arose and, taking the pine board from behind the door, whittled the shavings off for the morning’s fire.
The father brought a pine board from the wood-box and began to whittle off the shavings for the morning fire-making.
Before they go forth to fight, Wajagga warriors drink a magical potion, which often consists of shavings of the horn and hide of a rhinoceros mixed with beer; this is supposed to impart to them the strength and force of the animal.
The place of sacrifice or execution was marked as holy by being surrounded with whittled sticks, from the tops of which shavings hung in curls.
No more time was lost; twenty natives were immediately set to roll up balls about six inches in diameter, made of wool and shavings and fat, and anything else combustible that came to hand, and finally steeped in the heady spirit.
He had noticed plenty of coarse wool of sheep and goats in the village; there were heaps of shavings where the artificers had been making spear-shafts; and the place was reeking with fat of various kinds.
Horn shavings are extremely variable in their amount of nitrogen; when pure, they sometimes contain as much as 12·5 per cent, but a great deal of the horn shavings from comb manufactories, etc.
With trembling hands the lad took the shavings from Jack's hand.
Harry deposited the burning shavings upon the floor, where the fire was soon transmitted to the larger piece of wood Jack had used in whittling.
In a short time the boy had succeeded in producing the desired shavings from the board Harry had discovered.
At a distance of ten feet a wasp may be seen scraping tiny shavings of wood from oak palings by means of its jaws--shavings which it converts into paper for building its nest.
I shook my head and paused in the act of dislodging the shavings which had drifted down my neck.
These I whittled intoshavings or split into kindling.
Purvis had collected a few things and laid them on a pile of shavings in the middle of the cabin, and the oil-lamp with which he was to ignite the pile was in his hand.
Peter described how he had found the tin case on the top of a bundle of shavings in the cabin of the river steamer.
He set these knots up like a tripod under the fallen tree, small ends down and the shavings touching.
From these Tom whittled shavings from their less resinous ends, leaving the shavings on the sticks.
The devil does not apply his match to the hard coal; but he first lights the shavings of "innocent sins," and the shavings the wood, and the wood the coal.
In one of the lower rooms straw, paper, wood shavings and other inflammable material had been piled up, and two paraffin-cans lay upon the floor, both being empty.
Near it, upon the floor, was an ordinary packing-case, in the bottom of which a quantity of wood shavings had been pressed down, to form a sort of bed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shavings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
