Powdered

Examples

• His notes include the use of powdered silicon mixed with lime or other very infusible non-conductors or semi-conductors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The poles of the electromagnet in the local circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Powdered opium is by no means tasteless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Add sufficient powdered talc to give the mass the necessary consistency. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I hope we shall meet again, Sir,' said the powdered-headed footman, rubbing his hands, and following Sam out to the door-step. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But he will be very handsomely dressed in a court suit, with ruffles, and his hair a little powdered, like Mr. Wroughton at Covent Garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Nearly every Mexican carried a pouch of leaf tobacco, powdered by rolling in the hands, and a roll of corn husks to make wrappers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The old gentleman was a very respectable-looking personage, with a powdered head and gold spectacles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Those deep gray eyes rather near together--and the delicate irregular nose with a sort of ripple in it--and all the powdered curls hanging backward. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Knight says: The corundum stone used by the Hindoos and Chinese is composed of corundum powdered, two parts; lac resin, one part. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gudrun was laughing and flashing, powdered with snow-crystals, Gerald worked perfectly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Secondly, Lord Berwick threw a large, hot leg of mutton at his well-powdered footman's head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There is the answer, sir,' said the powdered-headed footman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Repeat the washing several times until the honey is all washed out, then dry the powdered gold leaf and mix it with water and gum arabic. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A powdered bob, spectacles, and black coat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is very important that the materials used must be finely powdered, perfectly dry, and thoroughly mixed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The powdered mortar from under the stone at which he wrenched, rattled on the pavement to confirm his words. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You dine early, sir,' said the powdered-headed footman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Still later Hall introduced chalk and powdered limestone into porcelain tubes, gun barrels, and tubes bored in solid iron, which he sealed and brought to very high temperatures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It powdered the dead who were tied face down across the saddles and the wounded, and those who walked beside them, were in thick dust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The addition of 1 ounce of powdered colocynth to the above amount will effectually banish all insects and worms from the walls where the paper is pasted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Grind the drugs with the powdered guaiac and add the oil. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He also placed some of these refractory metals directly in the circuit, bringing them to incandescence, and used silicon in powdered form in glass tubes placed in the electric circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• From head to foot I was powdered almost as white with chalk and dust, as if I had come out of a lime-kiln. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nice place, Sir,' said the powdered-headed footman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Strange, stiff garments were upon my body; garments that cracked and powdered away from me as I rose to a sitting posture. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Pleasant society, sir,' remarked the powdered-headed footman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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