The thinner and softer kinds of leather are sometimes used as body-clothing; but its special and proper purpose is the manufacture of coverings for the feet, to protect them from cold and water.
The symptoms are pains in the side, cough, sometimes occurring in severe paroxysms, shortness of breathing, the patient meantime gradually becoming thinner and weaker.
The thinner inks, when intended to be used with type or plates, are thickened by adding a little more gum, or some sugar.
Applied, spread on leather, to the corn only, as it will blister the thinnerskin surrounding its base.
The cortex is red, and much thinner than in the mealy sorts.
Their number swelled to a continuous stream, which in turn gradually became thinner and thinner until only a few stragglers were seen trotting behind.
Against the background of empty air, and in the gathering darkness, he seemed thinner than ever, and smaller.
She seemed gaunter and thinner than ever, yet her eyes had lost little of their fire, although they seemed set deeper in the caverns of her face.
We knew he was a male at once by his longer and thinner body, and by his natural modesty.
And, when I have seen him pining away before my eyes, getting thinner and thinner every day, I have sometimes thought my prayers were heard.
His figure was uncommonly slim even for his age, which could not be more than thirteen; and the looseness of his garb made him appear thinner than he was in reality.
A second cleek, which will be found in the bag of the experienced golfer, will have a thinner blade and much more loft upon it, but in other respects will be very much like the other one, though not nearly so heavy.
The object of the process is to make the material thinnerand more pliable.
Through this reform, and the further use of steel ribs for imparting strength and thus admitting of the employment of thinner steel plates for the actual shell, the cost of shipbuilding will be very greatly reduced.
Along the ground at each side of the row are stretched two thinner wires or cables which hold the long tent securely in position.
It possesses, however, the advantage that the extreme edges may be made thinner in proportion for laying one over the other at the point where they meet.
In cut decoration a better effect can be obtained with this leather than with thinner skins, and being very firm, it is equally suitable for modelling.
I won't grumble if you make the pancakes thinner for the next two weeks.
I can't stand by any longer and see you growing thinner and paler all the time," said his brother one evening, after he had reported how unsuccessfully he had spoken for him again that day.
The atmosphere of memory is one in which imagination flies more easily and feels itself more at home than in the thinnerether of youthful anticipation.
If you ship a poor cask of wine to India and back, if you keep it a half a century, it only grows thinner and sharper.
At last the thinner thread of sound is heard by itself, and its deep accompaniment rolls out its thunder no more.
So the unbeautiful get many more lovers than the beauties; only, as there are more of them, their lovers are spread thinner and do not make so much show.
At last he dreamed of nothing else, and grew thinner day by day till his parents inquired what was the matter, promising to do all they could to make him as happy as he once was.
Some fishermen preserve their sails by soaking them in a solution of lime and water considerably thinner than whitewash.
If you make a fiddle shorter, or of thinner stock, it does not hold its grip so well.
If made of stuff thinner than an inch and a half, it should be wider in the middle than above stated, or the pole will sag.
The eye is accustomed to judge of form, proportion and distance, in a thinner medium, and is continually deceived in a denser one, until experience has taught the diver how to estimate rightly the different impressions.
It is bad economy to use too light a rope in such operations, and best to fasten it to only one arm of the dredge, the eyes of the two arms being tied together with a thinner cord.
Helen laughed merrily at the idea of being matronized by the little girlish creature not yet twenty years of age, kissing fondly the white, thin cheek so much whiter and thinner than it used to be.
I came back, at the end of six months, thinner than a marling spike, but more in love than ever.
The raised strips are made somewhat thinner than the frame to be fastened, as the clamping piece should bear on the frame and not on the strips; the function of the strips being to hold the frame square.
The leather for the loop can be made from an old strap, shaved downthinner and cut to a width of about 1/2 in.
In the case of succulent specimens, the stems will have shrunk considerably, but the thinner petals will be in an almost natural condition.
The whipped whites of the eggs may be added to this filling if it is wanted thinnerand lighter.
Put it in a cylindrical mold in layers with pain de fraises (strawberries) or raspberries, keeping the red layer thinner than the white one; or mold it in a double mold, using the jellied fruit for the center or for the outside.
For parfaits it should be thinner or register 20 deg.
It appears east of the meridian before sunrise and as the crescent grows thinner it draws nearer and nearer to the eastern horizon and the rising sun.
But his emptied breast rose the more lightly, his departing spirit drew out thinner the thread of life.
Time is nothing but a death with softer, thinner sickles; every minute is the autumn of the past one, and the second world will be the spring of a third.
Among the smaller reforms under which the burgher has now to live is that of a thinner drink.
Through the lower, denser layers of atmosphere the Chicago bored in seconds; then, as the air grew thinner and thinner, she rushed upward faster and faster.
But I suppose the type gets thinnerwith each generation.
He ate little, without knowing what he ate; and every day grew thinner and more worn to look at.
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