The bark and thetips of the branches are given as an emmenagogue.
This is a very popular plant in the Orient, for many races use its leaves to impart a reddish-yellow stain to the nails, finger tips and palms of the hands.
And Moon held out her skirts by the tips and dragged one of her feet.
I kiss the tipsof my fingers and lay them upon my heart.
The margins of these tips have slender branchlets issuing from them (proliforme).
The pinkish-red tipsof the branches fade with age.
The yellow tips of the latter and the red ones of the former species wholly disappear.
Excepting when young (not always then) the red tips to the branchlets can not be relied upon as distinctive features of this species.
Though she was much agitated herself she failed not to remark his emotion, and on the threshold of the atelier, she blew a kiss back to him from the tips of her gloved fingers, without speaking or smiling.
Jacqueline was one of them, and, at the moment Fred approached, she was offering, with the tips of her fingers, a glass of champagne to M.
She was obliged to give him the tips of her fingers, as she said in her turn, with audacity equal to his own: "Oh, it was less than nothing.
Deneb will then be in the tail of the Swan, and the two stars which used to be at the tips of the crosspiece now become the wings.
If you will extend the two arms of that V a long way you will see two stars which may be called the tips of his horns.
The feeding tips of roots secrete acids that eat away lime and other substances that occur in rocks.
The nipping of the victim's toes and finger-tips testified powerfully to that.
This show'll be out sooner than that," was the cowboy's answer, as he pulled his barker and began shooting the tipsoff the side lights.
Again, each billow may be made to show separate with the alternate rows of billows rearing their white crests between the tips of the row on each side.
Every bone in my body was jarred to my finger tips and toe-nails, and the wrench my neck got in the sudden stoppage gave me the impression that my spine had been all at once lengthened out sixteen feet and was still growing.
Legs stout; Tail moderate, rounded or graduated; the feathers broad, their tips obtuse.
Black glossed with blue; quills internally white, with blackish bands; tips of the lateral tail feathers whitish; bill and legs black.
Phineas stretched out a hand and with the tips of his fingers touched her sleeve.
There are even tips for the inn-servants and the porters at the railway-stations!
No doubt the country lads, servants, and porters rejoice in the tips they receive.
The horse he had brought for her was a superb Arabian, shewing nerve and fire in every line of his form and starting muscle, from the tips of the ears down to the long fetlock and beautiful hoof.
He could barely see at all, but his finger-tips told him that it was just such a piece as they had on board the Tonans, but not so large.
He had only just spoken when the man returned on the tips of his bare toes, looking, for all the world, like the ordinary able seaman from a man-of-war.
Her sleeves were protected by cuffs of the same, on her hands she wore chamois leather gloves with the tips cut off.
The plane tipsone way in one man, another way in another; and may he whose plane tips in no way be the first to cast a stone!
So soon as you are able to handle it without burning your fingers, begin to pull it, using only the tips of your fingers.
Pull as soon as you can handle it with comfort, and with the tips of your fingers only.
Turn out upon greased dishes, and pull with the tips of your fingers until white.
When we walk against the east wind, we bring the tipsof our eyelashes together, and in that way exclude the cold air from the surface of the eye; and in the same manner we exclude the dust and modify the light.
They enable us to press thetips of the fingers, where the highest degree of sensitiveness prevails, so as to bring the largest amount of nervous perception into the sense of touch.
But it is equally certain that when the next dawn spread the iridescence of a pigeon's breast over those empty waters it struck out the hull and spars of Captain Wetherbee's vessel, anchored fair between the tips of two sunken masts.
I proceeded to take measurements and used the span between my thumb and little finger tips as a unit, knowing that this was exactly eight inches.
It manifests itself through paralysis of the limbs, which begins at the finger-tips and gradually extends through the system until the heart-muscles become paralysed and death occurs.
The composer went on fiercely for some minutes more, leaning close over the keyboard, and throwing her very soul, as Elma could plainly see, into the tips of her fingers.
The height of the appartement made it delightfully airy and bright, and through the western windows I glimpsed the feathery tips of the delicate new green of the trees.
Glenning, taking the hairy wrist which listlessly lay on the ragged counterpane and feeling for the pulse with tips of practiced fingers.
He was modeled for speed, and speed alone, from the tips of his veined ears to his small, polished hoofs.
You can do it after this summer's racing with the tips I'll give you if you'll kill Dudley's colt tonight!
Raffles joined his finger-tips judicially, and shook his head in serene dissent.
The distance between each player and each rank is that of "double arms' length," so that whichever direction the ranks may face with arms extended horizontally a line of players with finger tips touching will be formed.
Number two places finger tips on the head of one kneeling.
On his knees beside her he bent and touched with trembling lips her arms, her knees, the slim ankles desperately interlocked, the tips of her white shoes.
She stood with the receiver at her ears, flushing to the tips of them under his rebuke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
