There had been no very severe cold all the winter; which was a shame because of the skating; if the ponds had a thin coating of ice on them one day, it would all melt the next.
The weather since she left had been going on in the same stupid way; a thin coating of snow to be seen one day, the green of the fields the next.
There's just a thin coating of ice on the lake and ponds, but it won't bear.
The art of covering the surfaces of bodies with a thin coating of silver.
Mr Furley employs a thin coating of albumen to render pills tasteless.
An attempt has been made to obviate this difficulty, by lining the vessels with a thin coating of tin.
The metal for small articles is dipped from the hearth or crucible of the furnace with iron ladles defended on every side with a thin coating of clay mortar, and poured thence into the moulds.
In accomplishing this, the plate is moderately heated, and covered with a thin coating of white wax.
To perform it, the plate is first covered with a thin coating of some resinous substance, upon which the acid employed can have no action.
This is a smooth, perpendicular wall marking the line of the fissure and showing the strata of the rock in horizontal position whitened with a thin coating of carbonate of lime.
Use a thin coating of paste, first putting a piece of white paper under the page to absorb extra paste.
In using some labels it is not inadvisable to cover the gummed surface with a thin coating of paste.
Apply a thin coating of flexible glue to the back of the book and put over it a piece of thin canton flannel cut as long as the book and wide enough to extend an inch on each side.
The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
The bright surface of metallic iron which results from treatment by Blell's or by Krefting's method, especially if there is a thin coating of paraffin, should not be touched at all with the bare hand, but only with a cloth or a glove.
They have usually a thin coating of a calcareous deposit, which however often allows the lustre and colour of the metal to appear in places.
In some cases a thin coating of diluted white of egg, to which a few drops of clove oil, or some other essential oil, has been added as an antiseptic is beneficial.
The plate is wiped "closely" where the high lights are required or a tint (a thin coating of ink) left over certain portions where it needs to be darker.
The plate is next "rolled up" with a lithograph roller which distributes a thin coating of etching ink over the entire surface.
When bricks are used, they should be covered with a thin coating of plaster, which, when it is dry, should be white-washed.
During the cold season the thermometer on the summit of the range stands at about 30 degrees, a thin coating of ice covers the pools, and the country is white under a mantle of hoar frost.
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