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Example sentences for "sumach"

Lexicographically close words:
sultat; sultriness; sultry; sum; sumac; sumachs; sumas; sumbody; sume; sumere
  1. He heard the water lapping the edge of the road where the sumach grew; the bell, with its new tone, sounded clearly the vesper hour; and on ahead the lights of the inn twinkled.

  2. All along the edge of the water a flaming trail of sumach marked the curves where the obliging land withdrew as the lake intruded.

  3. Up they climbed, through narrow ways in the forest--ways hedged with alder and fern and sumach and wild grape, adorned with oxeye daisies and tiger lilies, and the big purple flowers which they knew and loved so well.

  4. Give a mordant of alum and tartar, then pass the goods through a madder bath; next run them through a bath of galls and sumach or logwood to which a little acetate or sulphate of iron has been added.

  5. Snuff, chesnut, musk, and other shades are produced by substituting walnut peels or sumach for bright yellow.

  6. The copper being filled up to its former level with fresh water, the decoction of the galls and sumach is to be poured in, and the wool boiled for half an hour in the bath.

  7. The manipulation is the same with sumach, but the bath is somewhat differently made; because the quantity of sumach must be double that of galls, and must be merely infused in very hot water, without boiling.

  8. Pearl-gray is produced by passing the stuff first through a decoction of sumach and logwood (2 libs.

  9. Two pounds of sumach may be substituted for every pound of galls.

  10. A decoction of sumach reddens litmus paper strongly; gives white flocks with the protomuriate of tin; pale-yellow flocks with alum; blue flocks with red sulphate of iron, with an abundant precipitate.

  11. At Paris the morocco leather is tanned by agitation with a decoction of sumach in large casks made to revolve upon a horizontal axis, like a barrel churn.

  12. Either gall nuts alone, or sumach alone, or these two substances united, are employed to give to cotton the fast dye preparation.

  13. Sumach and logwood admit of only about one half of the copperas that galls will take to bring out the maximum amount of black dye.

  14. Dingler does not add sumach or galls to the madder bath, because their effect is destroyed in the subsequent brightening, and he has no faith in the utility of blood.

  15. For the deeper shades, galls or sumach may be added to the paler Brazil-wood, with more or less iron mordant.

  16. Sumach is mixed with the madder for all these colours except for the purple.

  17. In a dusky recess he saw the crimson sumach flaring.

  18. He walked briskly along the path through the sassafras and sumach bushes, on which the rain-drops still clung.

  19. The sumach high and the elder thick, Where we found the stone and the ragged stick The trampled road of the thicket, full Of footprints down to the quarry pool.

  20. The sumach is largely grown in the Mirdite district; its leaves are exported to Trieste for use in tanneries and dyeworks.

  21. Chinese sumach or tree of heaven, is a handsome, quick-growing tree with spreading branches and large compound leaves, resembling those of the ash, and bearing numerous pairs of long pointed leaflets.

  22. Sumach too, has great decorative value, yet whoever saw it in a florist's window?

  23. If you use sumach spiles you may have to set the bucket on the ground where it is likely to get dirt in it, tip over, and it is so far from the spile that the wind blows the sap away from the pail entirely.

  24. May awoke next morning with the regretful thought that it was her last day at Sumach Lodge.

  25. The sojourn at Sumach Lodge was now nearly at an end, for our party had still far to go, and much to see.

  26. Do you recollect," he asked, "a lovely morning we had, just after coming to Sumach Lodge?

  27. Box and pines and sumach were the chief vegetation upon the stony slopes, where the scattered masses of dark-green foliage gave by contrast a whiter glitter to the stones.

  28. The lacquer varnish is the sap of a certain Oriental sumach tree.

  29. Lacquer varnish is the juice of certain sumach trees that grow in Japan.

  30. Tom proudly marched into a thick clump of sumach bushes and said: "Here you are!

  31. They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff.

  32. In its time came the elderberry bloom, and its purple fruit; the garnet fruit of the sumach and its flaming foliage; the lengths of vines and their purple clusters--all these and more also ministered to my delight.

  33. The deep red cones of the sumach And the woodbine's crimson sprays Have bannered the common roadside For the pageant of passing days.

  34. Goldenrod and farewell-summer faded, but sumach and alder-berry still held the fence corners.

  35. They went at speed over stock and stone, between resinous pines, through sumach and sassafras.

  36. Goldenrod and farewell-summer and the red plumes of the sumach lined his path, while far overhead the hickories and maples reared a fretted, red-gold roof.

  37. The locusts shrilled, the pines gave no shade, in the angle of the snake fences pokeberry and sumach drooped their dusty leaves.

  38. Piney slashed at some brilliant sumach by the wayside and his mobile lips jerked and quivered.

  39. Tom remembered this with a grin as he slyly crept up to the house, and it was only the work of a moment to draw that knot through the chinking and secure it firmly to a sumach bush that grew near at hand.

  40. The astringents mostly used are tannic acid, gall nuts, sumach and myrobalams.

  41. We are the asters by the door, and burnished goldenrod in the orchard; trumpeting honeysuckle on the fence, sumach burning by the roadside, juicy milkweed by the gate.

  42. Asters began to open lavender stars at the door-stone of Applegate Farm; tall rich milkweed pressed dusty flower-bunches against the fence, and the sumach brandished smoldering pyramids of fire along the roadsides.

  43. Sumach consists of the leaves and sometimes of the small twigs and stems of a species of sumach plant known as the Rhus coriaria.

  44. The Egyptians worked with the acacia, while the Romans used as tanning materials the barks of the pine, alder and pomegranate trees, also nut-galls, sumach and acorns.

  45. The dye substances in this case are the gall-nuts, sumach and the logwood extract, with the iron mordant, copper vitriol, and alum as mordants.

  46. The most important of the tannins are gall-nuts, sumach and chestnut extract.

  47. They parted the sumach and haw bushes screening the falls.

  48. His eyes roamed reflectively over the gray, jagged outcrop, almost concealed by a tangle of grape and blackberry vines and rangy sumach bushes.

  49. Repeat the treatment in the sumach and iron baths several times more, finally wash the sumach iron skein in 1 per cent hot soap solution; rinse, squeeze, and dry.

  50. Beneath the trees is spread out a mossy turf, free from thickets, but variegated by the gaudy petals of the heliotrope, and the bright crimson buds of the dwarf-sumach in the hollows.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sumach" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.