Sealing
['siːlɪŋ] or ['silɪŋ]
Examples
- Thus the pass will be closed up, sealing the pirates up in the crater, so if the volcano does burst out, they will be blown to pieces. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A device for sealing together the inside part and bulb of an incandescent lamp mechanically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They have sealing-wax on it, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A hopeful family yours, Mr. Trotter,' said Perker, sealing a letter which he had just finished writing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Before 1641 a true thermometer was constructed by sealing the top of the tube after driving out the air b y heat. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live--to die; I have at last my nameless bliss. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was one of those small sealing-wax knives to be found on old-fashioned writing-tables, with an ivory handle and a stiff blade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We all know--Commissioner of the Tape and Sealing Wax Office, with 1200 pounds a year for a salary. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now the inkstand top is in the middle, now the red bit of sealing-wax, now the black bit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps some unknown woman, far beneath herself in culture, was by the most subtle of lures sealing his fate this very instant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Schaumberg & Dillon’s method of preserving fruit juices consists in bottling and sealing the juices, and then heating the bottles to 170 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Laurie was signing and sealing as he spoke, and did not look up till a great tear dropped on the paper. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It had never recovered the heavy fine imposed upon Walpole Crawley, first baronet, for peculation in the Tape and Sealing Wax Office. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the printing trade, electrically heated linotype melting pots are being introduced successfully, while glue-pots and sealing-wax melters can be seen in binderies and banking institutions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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