But when a land-bird washes itself it does so under very different conditions, and a more or less lively tubbing is the utmost one would expect it to evolve out of the situation.
A bird that from the dark crown of the head to the dark tips of the wings is, above and below, a uniform dark, browny dun, yet some washes lighter than the uniformly brown one (No.
She brushes and wipes off the window casings and gas fixtures, dusts and replaces the furniture, polishes the mirrors, and washes the windows the last thing, provided the sun is not shining on them at this time.
She does the heavier part of the laundry work and some part of the sweeping, washes windows, takes charge of cellar and pantry, or does such other work as her mistress designates, each duty being plainly specified at the time she is hired.
Hamelin town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side.
He already washes my clothes very nicely indeed; his stout black arms are made for a washer-boy.
The sea washes their base, and flows so far into the interior of the latter, that it may be said they can catch fish in the body of the mountain.
Just as the train for Syracuse was coming in we reached Lentini station, and this time the sea that "washes away all human ills" was not available.
Christ causes a well to spring from a sycamore tree, and Mary washes his coat in it.
Mary washes Christ's swaddling clothes, hangs them to dry on a post, and the son of a priest puts one on his head; 16 And being possessed of devils they leave him.
There are various patent contrivances and washes that are recommended to prevent the work of borers, but all, so far as my observation goes, fall short of complete success.
For borers he washes his trees in June and September with carbolic acid ten pounds, sulphur forty pounds, lime enough to make a thick whitewash.
A wash of ordinary whitewash and a pint of sulphur to the bucketful, applied with a brush or swab to the bodies of the trees, generally stops their work, but if the rain washes it off it must be put on again or they will resume operations.
Some washes will deter the female from depositing eggs.
Although the sea throws up large quantities of sand on flat lee-shores, there are many cases where it continually encroaches on those same shores and washesthem away.
Then he went speeding away into the edge of the mountains until they reached one of those deep, deserted dry washes that cut the foothills here and there near Coyote Springs.
Mostly I can't afford to cry, because it washes the paint off my face, and it's very expensive.
Well, it may be their fault, or the fault of their climate, which washes the vitality out of one, or of their religion, which does not encourage emotional adventure to any notable degree.
Every day she has work of some sort; she washes and scrubs, and is by turns a midwife, a matchmaker, or a beggar.
Varka washes the steps, sweeps and dusts the rooms, then heats another stove and runs to the shop.
We have noticed how the mantle of waste creeps and washesto the stream ways.
At low tide its inner margin is laid bare, but at high tide it is covered wholly, and the sea washes the base of the cliffs.
The run-off washes directly to the streams, with the least delay and loss by evaporation in ponds and marches; the discharge of the river is therefore at its height.
It moves particles of soil by the force of the blows of the falling drops, andwashes them down all slopes to within reach of permanent streams.
We may therefore think of the alluvial deposits of a valley as a stream of waste fed by the waste mantle as it creeps and washesdown the valley sides, and slowly moving onwards to the sea.
We have traced the history of that portion of the rainfall which soaks into the ground; let us now return to that part which washes along the surface and is known as the run-off.
The Ohio reaches grade with a slope of less than four inches to the mile from Cincinnati to its mouth, and the powerful Mississippi washes along its load with a fall of but three inches per mile from Cairo to the Gulf.
Watching the run-off during a rain, as it hurries muddy with waste along the gutter or washesdown the hillside, we may see the beginning of the route by which the larger part of their load is delivered to rivers.
Then she washes the windows, scrubs the floors, and returns with her fifteen silver groschen in the evening as contented as a woman in America would be with a dollar.
God washes food into the body, exactly as he washes worn-up material out of it.
Artists will doubtless find more feeling and expression in the broad washes and splashes before us, than in the most careful stippling of Mr. Manton.
The original drawing, made with a reed pen and flat washes of colour, was photographed on to the wood block, and the engraver interpreted the various tints into line.
There's only one place where it is left unguarded during the inundation season, because, just here, the water washes the walls.
On the dressing-table were a number of little ointment-boxes and small bottles for perfumes, cosmetics, washes and oils.
Their care was especially needed to prevent any of the people from being pushed into the swollen Nile, an arm of which, in the season of the inundations, washes the walls of Sais.
Oline too thinks it as well to make herself as decent as may be, but cannot see where the blood is, andwashes the wrong places.
Then Isak washes out the cart down by the river, and puts the seat in.
In the end, Inger washes the patient herself, and throws her a towel.
Axel dead silent then, and he sees how she makes but a touch or two with her hands and washes the last of her clothes from her.
Only the Chinaman washes the dirty linen of other lands.
On mundane maps, we know the dusky washes for oceans; so on the Moon it was only natural to consider their counterparts as maria; and on Mars as 'seas.
So soon as the telescope came to be pointed at our satellite, it was evident that the darker washes were not water surfaces at all, but very palpably plains.
It was near one of these washes that we met the last of the troops.
Along this river, while it runs in nearly a level country and with no timber within a hundred miles, there are many washes and gullies that sometimes run out perhaps a mile from the river.
Yet Strawberry, like a mistress, As oft as I descend the hill of health, Washes my hold away.
My gallery claims your promise; the painters and gilders finish to-morrow, and next day itwashes its hands.
Two bricks, on which the figures of a man and woman are drawn, are given to the son, who washes them, and does puja to them after an effigy has been made at the waterside by a washerman.
At the gate they are met by the bride's sister carrying a lighted lamp, and she washes the bridegroom's feet.
The corpse is laid on a bier, the widow washes its feet, and drinks some of the water.
A man of the girl's family washes his feet, and he takes his seat in the pandal on the girl's right.
When it is over, shewashes her clothes, and takes a bath, washing her head.
A male member of the family, generally a brother or maternal uncle of the girl, washes the feet of the bridegroom.
He next washes the gold, and touches the child's ears, shoulders and head with it, and finally makes a gift of the bit of gold and performs nandimukham.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "washes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
