| 单词 | wadding |
| 例句 | He peers at the shipping label for a moment and then rips it in half, wadding it and tossing it into the trash. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He might be a little cold this day without the wadding of the winter garments, but he suddenly could not bear to put them on against his clean flesh. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The covering of them was torn and filthy and the wadding stuck out of the holes, grey and sodden. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He did not want this woman to see him for the first time with the wadding sticking out of his clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Excellent,” giggled Mr. Peckleman, crumbling the thirty-two cards in his hand, wadding them up into one extremely flammable paper ball. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He went at the few books they had particular harsh, tearing pages out of ’em and wadding ’em into balls afore he pitched ’em on the pile. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z But Rondell just looked at me with a blank face, wadding up the plate I’d just given him, and told me: “Who?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I close the distance between us in two strides, tearing off what remains of my shirt, wadding it and pressing down on the wound. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Some folded the tiny squares into love knots, some into triangles, but most were wadding them, then pressing them flat on their yellow laps. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take me with you,” begged Matt, grabbing her shirt and wadding it up in his hands. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have three hours, and don’t expect me to help. I’m studying for the SATs,” Maribel says, wadding squishy orange plugs into her ears as she takes out a laptop and reclines in her seat. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z And then, as if she had just now remembered, she unhooked the clasp of her gold necklace and took it off, wadding the chain and the jade pendant in her palm. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But no matter what I do, and despite myself, I am pulling on my snowpants, wadding my skirt in between my legs, tugging thick woolen socks on over my shoes, stuffing my feet into boots. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he dipped the torch he was holding into the bucket, took it out again, and held its dripping head of wadding to one of its burning sisters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Another, shapely and lavishly draped, is underpinned by domette wadding, she says, to hold its folds in place. Victoria Beckham: Is She for Real? 2010-09-03T22:43:00Z In 1996, Ms. Kawakubo presented a collection called Dress Meets Body Meets Dress, which featured disfiguring lumps of cotton wadding covered with cheerful gingham. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z The statement was posted with a hashtag:#BanBlanks, calling for an end to the use of blank cartridges, which contain gunpowder and paper wadding or wax. The ‘Rust’ Shooting Spurs a Debate Over Using Guns on Film Sets 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z They add wadding, then weave it all together on the family heirloom ... oh sorry, no, it is now a family heirloom, my mistake. TV review: Kirstie's Vintage Home 2012-11-08T21:05:01Z I taste blood as he packs my swollen mouth with wadding and hands me a prescription for antibiotics, along with extra-strong painkillers to get me through the night. Why I smoked my son’s drugs 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z BBC Radio 4's has seen a letter from Westminster City Council saying hessian wadding embedded in the ceiling was getting weaker over time. Apollo collapse due to 'old' materials 2014-03-24T15:07:03Z Even blanks can eject hot gases and paper or plastic wadding from the barrel that can be lethal at close range. Baldwin was told gun was ‘cold’ before movie set shooting 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It is a pastime that requires next-level commitment, though, as Ioan often spends days deep underground at a time, digging passages, or wadding through partially submerged caves. Wales’ Indiana Jones searching for lost mines in hills 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z On some trips, the boys would convince Dad to play football, wadding up a sock to serve as their pigskin. Daiyan Henley was born into the deadly world of his dad, who put him on a path to the NFL 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Composed of salvaged vintage linen or dupioni silk and stuffed with mattresslike wadding and sometimes pieces of wood for stability, they only look hard; in reality, they’re soft, even slightly yielding. His Sculptures Look Like Stone. They Feel More Like Pillows. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He even recalls wadding up a piece of paper and throwing it in the trash in dismay. How ‘All the President’s Men’ went from buddy flick to masterpiece The first idea that sounds good to me is mentally wadding up and throwing away any labels for your emotional self. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A self-identified introvert comes to terms with new extrovert tendencies 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Blanks can still be dangerous because they involve gunpowder and paper wadding or wax, which provide a flame and spark, which look good on camera. Striving for Authenticity, Films Often Use Real Guns on Set 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Productions typically use real guns that are loaded with blanks, which can still be dangerous since they involve gunpowder, a cartridge and paper wadding or wax, which provide a realistic-looking flame and spark. Alec Baldwin Was Told Gun in Fatal Shooting on Set Was Safe, Officials Say 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z However, even blanks can eject hot gases and paper or plastic wadding from the barrel that can be lethal at close range. Alec Baldwin says movie set shooting was ‘tragic accident’: ‘My heart is broken’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z They lack the deadly bullet point, which is usually replaced with cotton or paper wadding. What is a prop gun and how does a blank cartridge work? An explainer 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The impact of the paper wadding used to seal the cartridge pushed a piece of his skull into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging. The long, tragic history of prop gun accidents on movie and TV sets: A timeline 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z But when the trigger is pulled, the paper or plastic wadding is ejected from the barrel with enough force that it can be lethal at close range. Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ shooting accident: Hollywood mourns Halyna Hutchins 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, the Boeoegg's fiery end is supposed to signal how much longer winter will last. Pandemic drives traditional burning of Swiss snowman into Alps | Reuters His protective suit is red and a fake white beard made of wadding is taped to the edges of his mask and gown. Masked Santa lifts spirits for Romanian COVID-19 patients 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The operator would pour a measure of powder down the barrel, drop a projectile on top, then ram in a piece of wadding to hold everything in place. Review | An innovative gun made a Wild West huckster into an American industrialist 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z There was reportedly no wadding for the blanks. The long, tragic history of prop gun accidents on movie and TV sets: A timeline 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z He meant, of course, robin’s egg blue, the shade of all Tiffany boxes, bags and wadding. Tiffany Is More Than a Store 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z In cannons of that period, “wadding” material such as cloth or paper would usually be stuffed behind a cannonball. Booty and books: New evidence of pirates’ interest in both 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Most of us, she finishes, manage to live by wadding ourselves with stupidity. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Soldiers sometimes carried cartridges, which were powder and ball pre-wrapped in wadding, ready to be rammed down the barrel. Review | An innovative gun made a Wild West huckster into an American industrialist 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z A blank is a type of cartridge that contains gunpowder and wadding or paper, but no bullet. How did the filming of a music video end in tragedy? - BBC News 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “Don’t worry, I’m not going to hit you,” he told me, right fist clenched, left wadding up my practice jersey. Fighting the bear: John Scott demonstrates a hockey fight 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z First stuff it with wadding, and then weigh it down with beans. Make an Ai Weiwei sock puppet 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z On Sunday, the skeleton was placed in the lead-lined casket, wrapped in woolen fleece, wadding and linen, along with a rosary, and sealed by Ibsen. Ceremony fit for a king: England's Richard III to be reburied 530 years after death 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z During the ceremony at the University of Leicester, the king's remains were laid out with a rosary and packed with "medieval materials" including a natural woollen fleece, wadding and unbleached linen. Richard III remains sealed in coffin 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z “I knew it wasn’t a firecracker. I took it apart and there was gunpowder and wadding in it. “I wanted to see what was inside. Bomb squad destroys pipe bomb found in Meridian 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In the 106th minute, he was leveled by a shoulder from Kuyt, but played the rest of the game clutching cotton wadding between his teeth to contain bleeding from a cut inside his mouth. Argentina Beats Holland, And Completely Ruins Brazil's World Cup 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Finish off with a layer of wadding, to prevent the beans from slipping, and sew the top closed. Make an Ai Weiwei sock puppet 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In 1857, Abraham Lincoln compared the document to “old wadding left to rot on the battlefield after the victory is won.” Declaring equality and living equality are two different things Radio 4's You and Yours programme has seen an official letter from Westminster City Council that says hessian wadding embedded within the ceiling was getting weaker over time. Apollo collapse due to 'old' materials 2014-03-24T00:41:05Z No filler, no packing, no padding, no quilting, no wadding. Football transfer rumours: Luka Modric moving to Manchester United? 2013-03-12T08:48:54Z The following liniment may be applied upon muslin and covered by cotton wadding: Rx. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Here is General Booth, however, announcing it clearly enough to all who will take the theological wadding out of their ears. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z Despite his wadding and his charcoal he was chilly; but what matters that when the heart is warm, the spirits high? The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The boat was now running along with the Noank, however, and the story of Washington's splendid work for liberty was fired into the schooner at short range, wadding and all. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z In winter, wadding is quilted into the clothes, and several suits worn over the innermost, so that a man may be apparently stout until unrolled, or undressed. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z The wood is then ready for the polish, which is put on with a rubber made of wadding covered with linen rag and well wetted with polish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z "You would have found it pretty hard to swallow, for it was only cotton wadding," said Miss Flimbrey. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Whilst I moved the wadding with my tongue, my mouth was quite dry... My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z That Oneida girl of Thomas Spencer's saved you," said he, "for she picked out the burnt wadding and bits of cloth, cleaned and checked the hemorrhage, and purged you. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The thatch had been doubtless set on fire by a piece of the paper which had been used as wadding. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z It was applied also to the cotton wadding with which garments were lined and stuffed in Elizabeth’s time; hence inflated speech, fustian. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Michael took a piece of soiled wadding from a drawer in the table, rolled the stones in it, and fitted them into the box. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Hastily, they bind me to my bed, and gag me with wadding. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z This clasp Tyardt broke into fragments about the size of ordinary slugs, and with them he loaded his gun, using portions of the leaves as wadding. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z And, so saying, he ripped up the lining of his coat, and scattered a few handfuls of wadding to the winds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z "A wadding, a wadding," says he, "don't you see the hoppers and the skippers, and all the lads of the gang?" Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Potch put his hand to the top of the shelf where, in ah old tin, the great opal lay wrapped in wadding, with a few soft cloths about it. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z As for the gags, what could be more natural than that the murderers would use some of the wadding which they found in my mother's room. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z This desperate conflict was maintained for three hours, at close range—so close at times that some burning wadding from the Spaniard's guns set fire to the King George's mainsail. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z It mattered not whether they were lined with wadding, mink, cat, otter, bear, or beaverskin; he took all he could get hold of. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Sam cried and, wadding the banners into something of a ball, he hurled them out into the midst of a group of seniors. The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College 2011-05-24T02:00:14.887Z Potch's clumsy fingers fumbled with the wrappings; he spread the wadding on the table. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z They had revolvers, but committed the crime with cords and wadding!... My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z And VB came back to himself, sitting up in bed and wadding the blankets in his hands. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z Outside, in wadding of the damp, Red lights in streaks, like burning rags, Straggle from reeking lamp to lamp. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z The clothing needed by their families is the cheapest cotton, with cotton wadding added in the winter for warmth. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z The opal flashed black and shining between the rags and wadding as Potch put it on the table. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z They pick up some wadding and force it into her mouth. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z The sharp whistle of duck wings would be followed by the flash of my gun and the glow of burnt wadding. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Dusting the affected part with powdered starch, and wrapping it in cotton wadding, is also of use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z He had seen books; indeed, as a boy, in a former war, he had, with others, cut them up as wadding for muskets, but could not read. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Slowly, abstractedly, he rolled the newspaper wrappings from the tin; and the stones rattled together in their bed of wadding as he lifted them to the table. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z All that was known was that the murderers used cords and wadding gags. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z He went to the dressing room briefly and returned with wadding in his bloodied left nostril. Subban's OT goal saves Canadiens' win over Flames 2011-01-18T03:20:17Z Let us have carpets and cushions, wadding and down! Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Materials: Unbleached muslin, 14" × 7"; bleached muslin 15" × 7¾"; strap 18" × 1½"; bias binding 25" × 1"; wadding. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z "So he will, unless he has used them for wadding." The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Japy, but an unforeseen event occurs while she is being fastened and the wadding forced into her mouth.... My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z Beside him was the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece of white marble, the top of it strewed with cotton wadding and bandages, graduated measures and little bottles. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Hullo! though, here’s a wad;” and he stooped and picked up a wadding evidently cut out of an old beaver hat. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z Place the wadding between them; pin and baste together. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Style—Chesty effect, oval lapels, with small rounded corners, roll low, shoulders trifle wider than natural, raising extreme points with wadding. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines Japy died of suffocation owing to the introduction of a voluminous gag of wadding into her mouth; before she was dead, a cord was tightened round her neck; Mme. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z The invitations are made of cream white satin, fashioned in the exact shape and size of a waffle section, padded with white cotton wadding and tacked to simulate the meeting place of the irons. Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions She sent by Isabella a bottle of camphor, and some cotton wadding, for Diana's rheumatism, and a medicine for her to take internally. Stories for Helen “I perceive, sir,” said I, quickly; “like the wadding of a gun, which may increase the loudness, but never affect the strength of the shot.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. The top of the press-jack is left perfectly plain and smooth; the bottom, however, is padded for convenience for pressing with ten-ply of wadding, cut the same shape of board or bottom of press-jack. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines There was a thick wadding of feathers inside. A-Birding on a Bronco Against such points broadcloth's no protection, although padded with woollen "wadding." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 And scarcely had the assailants been repelled when the vessel was found to be on fire, ignited gun and pistol wadding having fallen through an open hatch amongst inflammable dunnage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Uncle Richard's house was always soft and dim, like one of those little jewel cases, all wadding and dark wood. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Over this place a piece of white heavy drilling, drawn tight over the wadding to keep in place and tacked all around the edges with brass head tacks. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines A couple of bullets are recommended by some sportsmen to be carried in the mouth, as they can then be readily used, and do not require wadding, if fired immediately they drop upon the powder. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa The bed on which the Empress sleeps is made of heavy futons, or quilts, of white habutai wadded with silk wadding. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition Well, then, we've given you a very pretty little incident for your journal this evening,' said he, laughing, 'in return for which I'll ask leave to borrow these memoranda for wadding for my gun. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands I sent the ball through his heart, as near as I stand to ye; the wadding was burning his waistcoat when I left him. St. Patrick's Eve Now remove the wadding and press left side on the padded side of press-jack in the usual manner. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines I got in, and the conscious waters immediately began vigorously spurting through the cotton wadding wherewith the craft was calked. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 The happy recipient is thus provided with wadding enough for all her winter dresses for the rest of her life, as well as with a good supply of dress material. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition Inclose a square of wadding, in which a pinch of heliotrope or white rose perfume powder has been hidden, and fasten the corners together with a scrap picture of old Santa Claus. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home During his absence his business had prospered, and before the departure of the Diana he presented the crew with dresses of silk and cotton wadding, the best to his favorites, the cook being especially remembered. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Style—Chesty effect, oval lapels, with concave edge, shoulders trifle wider than natural, and wadding on extreme points, to give square effect; roll low. The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Busines Looking round the room she saw a morsel of wadding near the floor, and she instantly burned it. Lady Anna He frequently employed his characteristic gesture of emphasis—the wadding of his left palm with his right fist or the energetic opening and closing of the right hand. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" “There’s plenty of powder and ball, but I don’t know where to lay hand to wadding.” Peggy Owen and Liberty "That was because of the noise of the guns," said Uncle Harry, "and I have got the wadding of a bullet somewhere inside me now." Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II She was gathering and wadding the ends of her veil in her hands; her lips were open, showing the points of her small, white teeth. The Bondboy Even the wounded demanded employment, the convalescent filling sand-bags for the fortifications, while those in the hospitals made wadding for the cannon which night and day belched shot and shell upon the besiegers' trenches. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France I discharged it full at his breast: the ball and the wadding went through his body. Adventures in the Philippine Islands His figure flashed out, lithe, young, a blaze of scarlet with a crowned rose embroidered upon a chest rendered enormous by much wadding. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II Joseph the Dreamer did not know that, adopting the whimsical device hit on by Shloumi, all these devout Jews had wadding stuffed deep into their ears. Dreamers of the Ghetto The grapnels were loosened, and tubs of wadding, and boxes of cartridge stood ready for use. Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. Why, nothing but a sheet of white wadding. The Two Story Mittens and the Little Play Mittens Being the Fourth Book of the Series Here are some pieces of cotton wadding, which I am about to saturate with alcoholic solutions of different kinds of solid matter. The Story of a Tinder-box Quilt skin upon the lining with a good layer of cotton wadding between. Taxidermy The vagrant sank limply to the pavement, his companion quickly untying the jacket sleeves from under his own arms and wadding the garment under Richling’s head. Dr. Sevier Take a square of wadding, and double it cornerways; cover it with muslin, or silk, and trim it as you please. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet The danger of improperly loading fire arms chiefly arises from not ramming the wadding close to the powder; and then when a fowling-piece is discharged, it is very likely to burst in pieces. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families When tired of this fun, they would play with a ball made of paper and wadding evenly wound about with thread or silk of various colors. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories Or the melon— let it bleach yellow in the winter light, even tart to the taste— it is better to taste of frost— the exquisite frost— than of wadding and of dead grass. Sea Garden The deep border of fur round the velvet, the warm waddings and paddings, the close fit up to the throat, were excellencies which warranted Janey's tour of inspection. Phoebe, Junior Don't you know that it's little powder and lots of wadding that makes her speak? The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill For the same reason, if the bottom of a large tree is to be shivered with gunpowder, a space must be left between the charge and the wadding, and the powder will tear it asunder. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Cover with a dry flannel and put wadding over that. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Firm pressure applied by means of a pad of cotton wadding and an elastic bandage, if employed early, may limit the effusion of blood; and massage is useful in hastening its absorption. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. On top of the wadding went the round-shot, which was in its turn hammered down under the powerful strokes of the ramrod. The Black Buccaneer He was a rough-looking man in a long jacket made of goat-skin, coarse trousers reaching down to the knee, and his legs bound with long strips of wadding. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson In the case of raised embroidery there must be between it and the wood, not a cloth merely, but a layer of wadding. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery A piece of oiled skin or oiled paper between the wadding and the dry flannel helps to keep in the heat and moisture. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts All hollows should be filled up, and all bony projections specially protected by rings of wadding so arranged as to take the pressure off the prominent point and distribute it on the surrounding parts. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. It is a good plan to perfume the wadding with sandal-wood, violet, or some of the many fragrant powders sold by druggists for this purpose. Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly As I came within sight of the boat, I saw Aunt Mary take the ramrod of the gun, extract the bullet, and then put in fresh wadding, and ram it down. The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers In this attack a private named de Golyer used a $5,000 dollar bill for wadding, which was found when the wound was probed. The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880 It should be from a quarter to half an inch thick, a little narrower than the leg, and be padded thickly with sheet wadding. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) A metallic chinking followed the removal of the wadding and set his heart thumping rapidly. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton The industry of the Megachiles, for instance, consists of manufacturing wallets with bits of leaves; that of the Cotton-bees of making bags of wadding with the flock gathered from certain plants. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles He took no note that in wadding the sheet he had overturned the inkwell and a stream from it was trickling down his trouser legs, marking them with long black zebra streaks. Sundry Accounts And in this respect nothing has surpassed cotton loose or attached to paper as in wadding. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed They are covered smoothly with cotton wadding, cotton wool, or other soft material, and then with a bandage. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Fortunately, I had in my pocket a bit of waste paper, which I had used instead of wadding in loading my gun. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests I detach a strip of the epidermis showing one of the luminescent sheets and place it in a glass tube, which I close with a plug of damp wadding, to avoid too rapid an evaporation. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles His feet, with what was left of the Constitution, were torn off and rammed into a small cannon's mouth for wadding; and, finally, he went up on the tail of a kite. Stories of Many Lands "Dismantled for the most part," says Parry, "the yards however being laid for walls and roofed in with thick wadding tilts, they were sheltered from the snow, whilst stoves and ovens were fixed inside." Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Sheet wadding, or cotton, is serviceable in covering splints before they are applied to the skin. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) If the wadding became overcharged with blood, it was, of course, changed from time to time before the plaster was thrown on. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Madras boats, of which the planks are sewed together with coir yarn, crossing the stitches over a wadding of coir or straw, which presses on the joints, and prevents much leakage. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Our supplies, also, were considerably damaged—the lantern broken, a powder-flask cracked, and the salt, shot, nails, wadding, &c., mixed together in beautiful confusion. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland One time the costumes were sent to the wrong address, with the result that Boieldieu’s “La Dame Blanche” had to be played in woollen frocks, patched velvet skirts, filthy cotton blouses, and French wadding. The Goose Man Each hunter then fills his mouth with bullets, which he drops into the gun without wadding; by this means loading more quickly, and being able to do so whilst his horse is at full speed. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Nothing, however, beats a mixture of all methods — paper, peat, and cork, their lines broken up or blended with wadding. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. To stitch or to sew together at frequent intervals in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them The rugs done by locks of coloured thread tied into the warp, and then hemp or wadding driven up by the lathe. A Journey to America in 1834 According to the mode of treatment, the woolly substance is fine or coarse, and is employed as wadding in the one case, and in the other as stuffing for mattresses. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 When these wadding ends are coarse, they give a pronounced rounded appearance to the cord. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Having neatly filled the head with the tow, proceed to put a small piece of cotton wadding in each orbit. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. And though shot and bullets were forbidden fruit, yet something might be done with hard wadding. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Very calmly Uncle Al cut himself a slice of the strongest tobacco on the river and packed it carefully in his pipe, wadding it down with his thumb. The Mississippi Saucer The first use made of the filamentous matter, was to substitute it for the wadding used in quilted counterpanes. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 To get extra weight without altering the appearance of the face, extra warp yarns, termed wadding ends, are inserted between the face weave and the filling, floating at the back of the rib. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades In these, padded in wadding, the skins rest until dry. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. The lint that cannot be used for spinning is made into cotton wadding to pad quilts, skirts, and coat linings; and cotton waste is excellent for cleaning machinery. Carl and the Cotton Gin I kept my eyes fixed upon the animal, and felt the powder, the wadding, and the shot, into the muzzle. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Neck pieces and small furs are cleaned with linings, wadding, etc., intact. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration On the heavier and better grades of piqué coarse picks called wadding are used to increase the weight, and also to give more prominence to the cord effect. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Notice where your model is too small or misshapen, and bind on pieces of tow; or paste and bind on wadding, excepting near the wings, where wires would fail to pierce wool or wadding. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. They were shot with little darts of hard wood pointed at one end, and twisted round with wadding at the other to prevent the wind escaping. A Voyage round the World A book for boys I supposed that the fire, which had taken hold of my linen, had come from the wadding of the gun. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. An interlining of cotton wadding is basted in place before the lining is sewed on. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration In the lightest and cheapest grades neither any wadding nor back picks are used. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Where the edges were too sharp they were beaten in by a mallet, or altered by glueing on wadding. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Ordinary cotton wool is useless, from being dusty and the fibres short, and the same remark applies to wadding. On Laboratory Arts These woollen quilts had a thin wadding, and were usually very closely quilted, so they were quite flat. Home Life in Colonial Days Before sewing the lining on an interlining of cotton wadding should be cut out and basted in place with a few long stitches. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration For wadding he tore apart the front page of the uppermost copy of the file of Daily Republicans lying upon the shelf where he had placed them less than half an hour before. From Place to Place He sent back to the camp for an oil-can and a parcel of cotton wadding, and by three o'clock had opened a brisk fire of flaming bullets on the thatch. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales I don't want to take it, and he says, 'Plenty more—see,' and with his jackknife begins opening the wadding of his coat, and out come bills and bills and bills. Sonnie-Boy's People Now we were building up the walls, placing between every log a thick wadding of moss. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Go run and ask your mother For some kind of cake or other, And a bit of cotton wadding For your ball-suit. The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes Its burnt edges and its general singed condition proved that it had been used for wadding. From Place to Place The crib is generally a straw hut, thatched with branches of holly and pine; on these branches are scattered little patches of white wadding, which look like snowflakes. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Tim put in a good wadding composed of dry leaves, and placing the muzzle of his gun among the leaves that they had gathered for ignition, he discharged it. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys He was wadding his bunk with the hay, while the others looked on rather enviously. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance These should be carefully cleansed, dusted with boric acid, and covered with a layer of wadding bandage. Papers on Health He rammed the charge home, with wadding between powder and shot, with more wadding on top of the shot. From Place to Place Such figures require especially careful fitting and the hollow place should be filled out with wadding. Textiles and Clothing Several times, also, she had been on fire from the wadding which came blazing on board. True Blue It took but a moment to ram home the charge and pack it over with pockets full of wadding; and then Harry, our gunner, touched it off. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors For local application, the sore parts are thickly dusted with fine fresh flour, and covered with soft wadding or surgeon's lint. Papers on Health More wadding was then put in, and rammed down. Ernest Bracebridge School Days It was lined with a bright scarlet silk wadding, which formed a train on the ground. In the Eastern Seas When the wadding was driven in and placed upon it, the confederate of the conjurer asked for the privilege of being allowed also to help ram it down. Three Boys in the Wild North Land The m–o–oss makes a nice, soft wadding all round, to keep the little buds safe and hidden. Flaming June She had folded a blanket between the double sheet, so as to give the effect of wadding, and an ancient crinoline held out the folds with old-world effect. Pixie O'Shaughnessy The magician took the pistol, and put in some wadding. Ernest Bracebridge School Days Note the wadding in the air, the smoke, the head of the harpoon, and the slick on the water as the whale sounded. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Full measure of powder was poured into the gun, and the usual wadding was well driven down upon it. Three Boys in the Wild North Land This, at present its sole meaning, was once only the secondary and superinduced; ‘bombast’ being properly the cotton plant, and then the cotton wadding with which garments were stuffed out and lined. English Past and Present It consists of three layers, the innermost layer of cheesecloth, the middle layer of thin sheet wadding, and the outer layer of oil-silk. The Mother and Her Child Tess, it's a sacrilege," he protested sharply, "like wadding up the petals of a rose or the leaves of a fern. The Secret of the Storm Country She examined a rent through which wadding peeped out on the world, cautiously. The Argonauts Part of the gun wadding fired by the mock cannon was thrown on the open roof of the Globe, and immediately ignited the thatch, spreading flames around the top rim of the great octagonal playhouse. Shakspere, Personal Recollections One of my dearest possessions is the lining for a bureau drawer made of pale blue silk, with scented wadding tied in with knots of narrow white ribbon. Girls and Women Winter has its diamonds, its powder, and its silvery embroidery for the rich man wrapped in his furs, and packed in his carriage, or snug among the wadding and velvet of a well-warmed room. The Queen's Necklace Flashes had come from the masked man's guns, the popping of electric light globes above and the showering of glass testifying to the fact that they had contained something more than mere wadding. The Cross-Cut For a moment he looked out—on the heavy flakes coming down like cotton wadding, at the figure of Chūdayu staggering like a drunken man to his quarters. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 His bullets and wadding he carried in a small leather pouch by his side. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky It was a repetition, multiplied 10,000 times, of the Presbyterian parson at Springfield, N.J., supplying Washington's army with Watts hymn books when it was retreating to serve as paper wadding for the rifles. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights “I’m not going,” said Dunk, wadding up the missive and tossing it into the waste-paper basket. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Of course they are only blank cartridges," he added cheerfully, "but if the wadding hits you Bunn, lockjaw is almost sure to follow. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real Without removing the bag from around the pistillate blossoms, the hybridizer forces the point of the atomizer through the cotton wadding between bag and branch. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin The lower classes like to decorate their wadding with dried grasses, colored paper, and brilliant odds and ends, in a sort of toy-garden arrangement. Russian Rambles The rubbers best adapted for turned work are made of white wadding, as the hollows and other intricacies can be completely finished out with a soft rubber. French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction Every day it is loaded with powder and wadding, but no one on earth is allowed to fire it off. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy Cover each piece with a layer of cotton wadding, sprinkled with sachet powder, and a layer of silk or satin of any color you prefer. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 There were plenty of old papers at the bungalow, and soon Russ and Laddie were tearing them up on the beach near their fort and wadding and rolling them up into "bullets" and "cannon balls." Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's A layer of wadding between the fur and the covering adds warmth, and makes the circular mantle called a rotonda set properly. Russian Rambles The gold is gently pressed down with a piece of wadding, and when dry the surplus can be removed with a round camel's-hair tool. French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction The rest, scornful, although well filled out with wadding, shored up with springs, corrected here and altered there, watched their sisters dabbling with disdain. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 If the linin' wasn't stuffed full of gun-waddin' it would be over my nose,' he observed, taking it off and adjusting the layer of wadding as he spoke. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Experiment.—Take some newly ripened cotton or cotton wadding, a tree branch, a cornstalk, and some straw or grass. The First Book of Farming The broad expanse of cotton wadding between the double windows is decorated, in middle-class taste, with tufts of dyed grasses, colored paper, and other execrable ornaments. Russian Rambles On a day of trouble, during her husband's lifetime, she had placed the assignats resulting from the sale of their house at Chaillot, amounting to about thirty thousand francs, in the wadding of a dress. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men All the articles that it contained, arms, instruments, utensils, etc., were solidly fastened to the projections of the wadding, so as to sustain the least injury possible from the first terrible shock. All Around the Moon Mr. Sterne looked at him estimatingly, at the same time wadding up a newspaper clipping from the desk in front of him. The Clarion Besides the sachets mentioned there are many other substances applied as dry perfumes, such as scented wadding, used for quilting into all sorts of articles adapted for use in a lady's boudoir. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants To this tompion is, or used to be, attached a large piece of wadding, what for I never rightly understood. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha They'll have the whole countryside at the wadding, and we must let them see that we have a spirit and a faction of our own,' says he, 'that we needn't be ashamed of. The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "Interesting old place," wadding a pillow under his ear. A Splendid Hazard It is also made into a kind of wadding, and used for the purpose of giving additional warmth to various parts of their clothing. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Why, that object having been effected some eighty years ago, the Declaration is of no practical use now—mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battle-field after the victory is won. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) Fat and heat must come to us from the starches and sugars, in sufficient supply to "put a layer of wadding between muscles and skin, fill out the wrinkles, and keep one warm." The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes The boots are of fine brown Spanish leather, lined with deer-skin, tanned with the fur on; about the ankles is a kind of wadding under the lining, to keep out wet. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Finding the Revolutionary soldiers short of wadding he distributed the church hymn books among them, with the exhortation, "Now, boys, put Watts into them." Scotland's Mark on America Materials: Light brown Java canvas; green silk; green filoselle and purse silk; green silk ribbon three-fifths of an inch wide; some wadding; 2 cork soles. Beeton's Book of Needlework I'd 'a' thought o' that if I hadn't been so awful worried; my head feels stuffed full o' wadding. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl The unctuous rectitude that converts the word of God into wadding for a gun is certainly a formidable opponent, as Cromwell proved. The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Why, that object having been effected some eighty years ago, the Declaration is of no practical use now—mere rubbish—old wadding, left to rot on the battle-field after the victory is won. Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 On the open space by St. Louis Gate a crowd of convalescents were busy in filling sand-bags to strengthen the defences, while the sick and wounded in the hospitals made wadding for the cannon. Montcalm and Wolfe During this conversation Effi had been wadding bread and tossing it on the table, then making figures out of the little balls, to indicate that a change of topic was desirable. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 It seemed as if a heavy-sledge hammer, or huge wooden mallet, carefully muffled in wadding, was at work in the room below me. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 She worked herself up to a virtuous pitch of self-reprobation and flagellated herself soundly, taking the precaution, however, of wadding the knots of the scourge with cotton-wool. Septimus We were surprised to find that she mounted twelve brass guns, remarkably well fitted, and that everything was apparently ready for action, rammers and sponges, shot and wadding being all up and at hand. Poor Jack The trees are already wrapped in snow, like precious objects packed in wadding. The Dangerous Age Doubtless he were led away by the older smuggler, that had a grace of villainy about him, 'tis said, and used Lord Chesterfield's printed letters for wadding to his bullets. At a Winter's Fire The nation is almost entirely dependent upon cotton for clothing, which in winter is padded with a cheap wadding to an abnormal thickness. Across China on Foot Dyukovsky succeeded in finding on it some broken shoots, and a little bit of wadding. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories The stems, when dried carefully and stuffed with wadding, form pretty ornaments. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation At last they dressed her in silk cunningly fashioned and lined with wadding. The Curly-Haired Hen I wish I'd thought of that before I rammed down the wadding. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described We kept our eyes on it and saw the great flat and noisy insect grow bigger and bigger, silhouetting the black of its angles and partitioned lines against the airy wadding of the clouds. Light Beside me on the pavement stood my father in a shabby summer overcoat and a serge cap, from which a bit of white wadding was sticking out. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories In fact, under the wadding were four thick lenticular footlights, two let into the circular wall of the projectile, the third in its lower part, and the fourth in its cone. The Moon-Voyage In a wicker-basket she covered a layer of straw with another of wadding and fine down. The Curly-Haired Hen If controversy arise on some point with his friends, there may, after a while, be no remnant of hard feeling,—as there are heavy cannonades, and no bit of wadding picked up. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 The guns were loaded, but rammers, matches, wadding, cannon-balls, were all out of place, and not immediately accessible. Famous Americans of Recent Times He heaved a sigh of relief and threw himself down on the bed, wadding the pillow into a hard ball under the nape of his neck and unfolding the Mexican newspaper. Starr, of the Desert A thick wadding put upon a network of springs made of the best steel lined it inside. The Moon-Voyage It contained a folded paper, a quantity of wadding, my purse, my roll of bank-notes, and my watch! In the Days of My Youth The merchants did not suffer, as frequently this paper money was lost, and never presented; and cases were known of its use by Indians as wadding for their flint-locks. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration And now the air in the hollow grew more suffocating as fragments of burning powder and wadding set the dead grass afire, and the thick, strangling blue smoke spread over everything. Ailsa Paige To the vines were tied any number of artificial melons made of green paper stuffed with cotton wadding which concealed tiny favors. Entertaining Made Easy As to the upper sides of the projectile, they were lined with a thick wadding of leather, put upon the best steel springs as supple as watch-springs. The Moon-Voyage "Tell me," he said, heavily, wadding his mind with cotton, for fear some lightness should percolate through it. From a Girl's Point of View My apparatus, which is explained more fully in the Appendix, consists of a number of common gun cartridge cases filled with alternate layers of shot, wool, and wadding, and then closed in the usual way. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development He picked up a minute piece of the burned wadding of the muzzle-loading rifle. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods Before the animals were, however, out of range, he loaded, without wadding, and fired again, but also without effect. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Free Drinks to all Weary Travellers', in white wadding on red calico, like Christmas decorations in church. The Wouldbegoods On January 28, 1878, she gave birth to a male infant, which was wrapped in wadding and kept at an artificial temperature. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine One of the cannoneers, who was strongly opposed to him, expressed the wish that he might be struck by some of the wadding. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch The brown silk was so worn that the wadding stuck out almost everywhere. The Song of the Lark Beside him was the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece of white marble—the top of it strewed with cotton wadding and bandages, graduated measures, and little bottles. Round the Red Lamp They talk like veterans now— It was much less of a strain than I had expected, there was no standing on your toes nor keeping your mouth open or putting wadding in your ears. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis She softened: "Get me some wadding out of the middle drawer," she said. Sons and Lovers The bundles of conducting wires were each enveloped in gutta-percha, and protected by a wadding of hemp, contained in a metallic covering. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Les Misérables I've got both barrels loaded with powder and wadding, so I can scare them out of their wits. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage The sheer frock she hung up in a closet, covering it with a shroud of tissue paper, wadding her daughter's none-too-carefully flung stockings into her shoes and tiptoeing to place them beside the davenport. Star-Dust A scrap of cotton wadding is also good for stopping blood. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches A small phial of it will be found in the barrel of your left pistol, with wadding around it lest it come to harm. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 In order to protect the diseased parts, a soft cap should be used, and within the ear a little cotton wadding may defend the ear from injury. The Dog His health failing through the severity of this labor, his parents took him from this factory and placed him in another factory, for the manufacture of cotton batting and wadding, in West Stockbridge. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men The best instrument that suggested itself for his purpose was the ramrod of a gun, which, having a sort of corkscrew at the end for extracting the wadding, would serve as an auger. Dick Sands, the Boy Captain I forced my character in order to appear the haughty and voluptuous siren; I stuffed my bodice with wadding and the hips under my skirts with horse-hair; but I kept my small, thin, sorrowful face. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Joseph was spitting out wadding and burnt powder. With Edged Tools He could not therefore be kept in wadding, however! Home Again These "punkin-hoods" were quilted with great rolls of woollen wadding and drawn tight between the rolls with strong cords. Sabbath in Puritan New England Well the orderly ran out at this, and took him up and examined his wound; but it wasn't a wound at all, only the wadding of the gun. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 He had taken his trigger from Hofwyl; he had bought his wadding from Hamilton; he had got his copper-caps from Bell and Lancaster. The Caxtons — Complete He had taken his trigger from Hofwyl; he had bought his wadding from Hamilton; he had got his copper- caps from Bell and Lancaster. The Caxtons — Volume 02 The cartridges were blank, but so close were some of the men that the burning wadding struck the cattle. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range The size of a small marble, it lay swathed in white wadding. Tropic Days The lantern was brought, and sitting down on a wadding tub, I stripped. Tom Cringle's Log Her hands seemed to be made of a kind of wadding, she handled everything so lightly and delicately. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories One burned the wadding only, the other ball passed under his arm, killing a guard behind him. The Companions of Jehu "To save him from the devil," sneered the jefe, wadding it up and tossing it back at him. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond In the exercises the men practised with many wrappings of wadding and cotton wound round the caestus, answering the purpose of the modern boxing glove. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion This was a lid of one of the wadding—tubs, which, to come up to Jigmaree's notions of neatness, had been fitted with covers, and forth stumped Bang, preceded by Pegtop doing the honours. Tom Cringle's Log Large stomachs and large heads are indispensable for those who serve the court of Bornou, and those who unfortunately possess not the former by nature, make up the deficiency with wadding. The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea It was the paper that had served as wadding for the murderer's gun. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction Strips of an old handkerchief, underclothing, or cotton wadding may also be used as a compress, provided pressure is not neglected. A Practical Physiology Meantime the lovely goddess to his aid Sharp augers brought, with which he bored the beams, Then placed them side by side, adapting each To other, and the seams with wadding closed. Mosaics of Grecian History If he had wanted farther confirmation, the failure of the shot which he fired at Bridgenorth, and of which the wadding only struck him, showed that his arms had been tampered with. Peveril of the Peak No,—wait,—I have forgotten the pretty clustering locked head and rosy dimpled face; and, in truth, they were so lost in the mountains of wool and wadding around as to be fairly overlooked. The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea Besides this, the last unreelable portion of each cocoon is laid aside to be manufactured into silk wadding and into soft mattresses for caskets upon which the wealthy lay their dead. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan It looks so beautiful upon its snow-white cotton wadding. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus On that December night, under the clear cold moonlight, the newly-ploughed fields stretching away on either hand resembled vast beds of greyish wadding which deadened every sound in the atmosphere. The Fortune of the Rougons In the crushed box could be seen some thin broken pieces of glass and a wadding of cotton-wool. The Treasure-Train It was Grace Harlowe in a robe made of cotton wadding thickly sprinkled with diamond dust, gotten up to represent the spirit of Christmas. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School Meantime we were all in our nice soft beds; such as found three blankets too little added a dressing-gown of flannel, or print lined with wadding or fleecy hosiery, and so made shift. It Is Never Too Late to Mend His face was like chalk; his eyes deep set in his head; his scalp one criss-cross of bandages, and his right hand and wrist a misshapen lump of cotton wadding and splints. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero She slipped a hand into her kerchief pocket and took out the wadding and waved in reply of course without letting him and then slipped it back. Ulysses It's just as I say!" he declared hotly—"The Pope is taken as much care of as if he were a peach wrapped in wadding! The Master-Christian The portion of air in immediate contact with the wadding is condensed; and if the wadding were to remain at rest, the air throughout the tube would soon acquire a uniform density. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures She tried on the satin boots; they were a little long, but she would stuff the toes with wadding. Australia Felix It was packed in wadding so as to save a jar. The Vultures She won in a thunderstorm, Rothschild's filly, with wadding in her ears. Ulysses I detach a strip of the epidermis showing one of the luminescent sheets and place it in a glass tube, which I close with a plug of damp wadding, to avoid an over-rapid evaporation. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects If, in loading, a space is left between the wadding and the charge, the gun either recoils violently, or bursts. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Then she rolled her long chair near the window, drew a little table within reach of her hand, and placed upon it the big bottle of chloroform beside a handful of wadding. Yvette "Yes, when you think you're going to get the wadding kicked out of you." The Titan Others, endowed with greater vigor, crawl up the glass to the plug and manage to make their way through the wadding. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography The first has her leaves; the second her wadding; the third her resin. Bramble-Bees and Others In this case the first effect of the explosion is to produce an enormous pressure on everything confining it, and to advance the wadding through a very small space. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures She took the bottle again, and saturated once more the little piece of wadding; then she began to breathe in the fumes again. Yvette He took a handful of slugs and bullets, poured them into his gun, rammed down a wadding of leaves upon all, retreating as he did so to the higher limbs, the bear following him steadily. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Besides that, it had the mud of three counties plastered inside and out, and the upholstery showed sizable patches of cotton wadding. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' Provided that the plant be more or less well-covered with soft wadding, the rest is immaterial to her. Bramble-Bees and Others But as the muskets were not loaded, and the cannon had only wadding in them, these facts, I presume, saved the life of Phil Fogarty from this discharge. Burlesques Why, that object having been effected some eighty years ago, the Declaration is of no practical use now—mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield after the victory is won. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Chaucer here satirises the fashion of the time, which piled bulky and heavy waddings on ladies' heads. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems The sky, its veil being rent asunder, grew clear; the vapours fell down on the horizon, massing in heaps like slate-coloured wadding, as if to form a soft bank to the sea. An Iceland Fisherman One is known to us and works exclusively in wadding; the other, which we are about to study, works in resin, without ever having recourse to cotton. Bramble-Bees and Others It has been used as wadding for the gun, I reckon; indeed, that's clear enough, from the shape it's crammed into. Mary Barton "But were you ever at her toilette?" said the wicked Charlotte: "Out of shape, completely: considerable waddings, I promise you: and then"—still worse features, from that wicked Charlotte, in presence of the domestics here. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 Underneath, we find a thick layer of reddish-brown silk, not worked into a fabric this time, but puffed into an extra-fine wadding. The Life of the Spider Tell 'em to ram hard the wadding and grease the mouth. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows More or less stocked with cells, the reed is at last closed, right at the orifice, with a thick plug of cotton, usually coarser than the wadding of the honey-satchels. Bramble-Bees and Others She understood it instantly; it was the paper that had served as wadding for the murderer's gun. Mary Barton I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The wadding, picked up bit by bit from the ground, is teazled by the bird’s claws and inserted, all fleecy, into the meshes of the canvas. The Life of the Spider He hammered at the waddings with fierce joyousness. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows Then our fingers can tell the cells by counting the knots that resist pressure under the cover of wadding. Bramble-Bees and Others We Americans, you know, are accustomed to using municipal regulations for gun wadding when we line up to help the eagle scream. Roads of Destiny He remembered picking bits of burning wadding from his coat sleeve with his left hand. Selected Stories of Bret Harte First, a few threads are flung out, hither and thither, to keep the layer of wadding in position. The Life of the Spider I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot. Bleak House The two functions of the wadding are here plainly marked. Bramble-Bees and Others Riding to a little distance I alighted, thinking to gather a handful of dry grass to serve the purpose of wadding, and load the gun at my leisure. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life A month passes and, about the middle of September, the little ones hatch, but without leaving their tabernacle, where they are to spend the winter packed in soft wadding. The Life of the Spider Another, distracted from her work by some startling vibration, leaves her nest at the moment when the layer of red-brown wadding is being completed. The Life of the Spider Inside the bag there is nothing but an extremely fine, white wadding and, lastly, the eggs, numbering about a hundred and comparatively large, for they measure a millimetre and a half. The Life of the Spider Peeping from the depths of the wadding was an anxious little head with a red hood to it. Bramble-Bees and Others |
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