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Example sentences for "whiting"

  • Whiting improved his chance to take second, where he laughingly came to anchor, chaffing Cooper, who was making some very uncomplimentary remarks about himself.

  • In the fourth Springer's work justified the confidence Eliot had expressed, for he followed Sanger's example by striking out Pratt and Whiting and forcing the dangerous Copley to hit weakly to the infield.

  • I should have nipped Whiting without a struggle.

  • Even as Lander uttered these words Grant pitched the first ball, and Whiting hit it--hit it humming straight into the hands of Chipper Cooper, who snapped it to third for a double play, before Berry could get back to the sack.

  • Then for another hour we throw out and haul in again as quickly as possible, landing whiting from 6 oz.

  • For whiting and silvery bream rather fine lines are used, but we each have a heavy line for flathead, for these fish are caught in the tidal rivers on a sandy bottom up to three feet and four feet in length.

  • Then the whiting cease to bite as suddenly as they have begun, and move off into deeper water.

  • Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.

  • I never knew so much about a whiting before.

  • According to the position of their fins we find forming one of the smaller groups—the Cod, the Whiting and the Haddock.

  • The hundreds of huge oil tanks of Whiting had now disappeared, and I could see only the flaming tops of the iron furnaces of South Chicago.

  • I will take the same train, and we will walk from Whiting to a deserted railway siding two miles further on, where the projectile has been shipped.

  • Taking a closed carriage here, I was driven to the same station and took the same train for Whiting as on the previous evening.

  • A mixture of white lead worked in with the whiting is, however, superior for some purposes, and is better when but one coat of paint is to be put on after the puttying.

  • Common putty is (or should be) a mixture of linseed oil and whiting of about the consistency of dough.

  • Then said Scogin, put the other whiting betwixt them to break the strife.

  • How Jacke by playing of the Whiting got his dinner.

  • Scogin said, Jacke thou saist truth, put another whiting into the pan.

  • In a few days I was transferred from Whiting to Swanton, Ohio, with no raise of salary, but better facilities for spending what I did get.

  • I then returned to Whiting and arranged to have the settlers consign all their game to me, which I in turn consigned to the commission merchant.

  • Give the work a coat of boiled linseed-oil; immediately sprinkle dry whiting upon it, and rub it well in with tow all over the surface.

  • The whiting absorbs the oil and completely fills the pores of the wood.

  • Thick compositions or putty fillers are composed of whiting and plaster, or similar powders having little or no colour.

  • The work should first have a coating of size and whiting (well strained); this will act as a pore-filler.

  • For birch or oak, some use whiting or soft putty moistened with linseed-oil for the filling; this preparation prevents in a great measure the rising of the grain.

  • When small, they may be cut through, bone and all, and helped in nice pieces, a middling-sized whiting serving for two slices.

  • Whiting may be dressed in the same manner, and will be found very delicious.

  • Wash the whiting in salt and water, wipe them thoroughly, and let them remain in the cloth to absorb all moisture.

  • As the senator stumbled away, Miss Whiting felt a light touch at her elbow.

  • They stand round looking at the boxes of fish, and when one of them twitches the flesh of his nose or faintly moves one of his eyelashes it means that he has bought six stone of whiting for thirty shillings.

  • Fish-porters with a kind of blase animation run up and down a long gangway to the ship with six-stone boxes of fine fresh whiting on their heads.

  • I prefer the whiting fried with their skins on, merely dipping them in flour.

  • Rubbing with a soft brush dipped in fine, soft whiting is another method often employed for the same purpose.

  • If a more thorough cleaning is needed, apply moistened Spanish whiting with a silver brush and soft flannel, afterward polishing with dry whiting and chamois skin.

  • Whiting can be detected by dipping the ends of the thumb and forefinger in sweet oil and rubbing the flour between them.

  • Brass faucets and other brass or copper articles may be cleaned by rubbing with whiting wet with aqua ammonia.

  • Cleaner for White Shoes [239] Finely ground whiting mixed with water to the consistency of paste makes a very good coating for white shoes.

  • It will not, however, grind old putty or make putty from whiting and oil.

  • The whitewashed appearance that much of the ginger has, as seen in the shops, is due to the fact of its being washed in whiting and water, or even coated with sulphate of lime.

  • Putty is made of whiting and linseed oil, and is generally bought in iron kegs of 1/2 or 1 cwt.

  • Even so delicate a fish as whiting may, by a little management with vinegar, be kept perfectly well from one day to the other.

  • Skinned whiting has very little flavour, and although when skilfully cooked in the usual way it is useful by way of change, the nourishment is much impaired by the removal of the skin.

  • It was commanded by Captain Whiting and was known as the “Tenth Company of Colonel David Wooster’s Third Regiment of Connecticut Levy.

  • In the Eleventh Company of the Second Regiment, Colonel Nathaniel Whiting commanding, Ruben Bostwick was ensign, and the records show that Private James Bennett went from the town in 1760.

  • The whiting is cheap and can be purchased at any drug store.

  • Rub this well into all the etched parts and allow to dry for about two minutes, then rub in a fine whiting or litharge with an old toothbrush.

  • SEE George Whiting and Sadie Burt in Song Sayings.

  • Donald Whiting is only a boy friend, treating me as a brother would, and Peter Morrison is much too sophisticated and mature to pay any serious attention to a girl with a year more high school before her.

  • Judge Whiting sat in deep thought, then he looked at Linda.

  • Donald Whiting laughed, as Linda intended that he should.

  • Donald Whiting pitched his hat upon the seat, shook off his coat, and sent it flying after the hat.

  • Peter Morrison glanced after her a second, and then he led Donald Whiting to a nail keg in the garage and impaled that youngster on the mental point of a mental pin and studied him as carefully as any scientist ever studied a rare specimen.

  • I have been told," said Linda in a low voice, "that Mary Louise Whiting is a perfect darling.

  • She would demand that Eileen produce enough money for better clothing for her, and then she remembered what she had said to Donald Whiting about conquering her horror for a motor car.

  • It's the best thing that ever happened to me," answered Donald Whiting instantly.

  • Sitting on the blanket across from her Donald Whiting was wholly absorbed in her and he was thinking.

  • People can talk all they please about Mary Louise Whiting being a perfect lady but she is a perfect beast.

  • May Mrs. Whiting and I pay you a visit some day soon in your home?

  • Before they could start back to Lilac Valley a car stopped in the canyon and a couple of men introducing themselves as having come from Judge Whiting interviewed Katy and Linda exhaustively.

  • I haven't definitely decided on her yet, but she looks a good deal like Mary Louise Whiting to mc.

  • When the regular silver-cleaning day comes around, wash and dry the silver in the prescribed way, and rub with sifted whiting wet with alcohol, leaving no part untouched, and allow to dry on.

  • Wash off the whiting with a second cloth, rub dry, and polish with flannel.

  • Spots can be removed from ivory handles with tripoli mixed with sweet oil; from mother-of-pearl with sifted whiting and alcohol, which is washed off and followed with a polishing with dry whiting and a flannel cloth.

  • Whiting and linseed oil mixed well together until the paste is smooth will make the putty.

  • Faucets can be kept bright by rubbing with whiting and alcohol, followed by a vigorous polishing with a bit of flannel.

  • Painted woodwork is best cleaned with whiting mixed to a thick cream with cold water, rubbed on with a cloth wrung out of hot water, following the grain of the wood.

  • White lead stiffened with whiting is sometimes useful in taking the place of putty, and is a trifle more durable.

  • Stir in enough powdered whiting to make a thick putty.

  • For chalk and limestone, mix plaster and sand with the whiting and lay it on thickly, not throwing on sand, as a final operation.

  • Pour some out on a plate, and let it get cold; you will then be able to determine whether the mixture requires more or less glue, whiting or oil.

  • The putty is thickened with whiting until the pellets will roll hard, but they should not be dry enough to crumble.

  • Its shape being irregular, it is well suited to imitate craggy rocks, added to which it takes thick colour or whiting well, glued or unglued.

  • The late William Whiting wrote it in 1860, and it was incorporated with some alterations in the standard English Church collection entitled Hymns Ancient and Modern.

  • The whiting would gladly have eaten up the tench, when the goldfish led forth on his right arm Rabette, and on his left Albano, to dinner.


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