Sunday is an opportunity to brush up on lines and moves and private rehearsals.

Eno described the " snake guitar " and " digital guitar " by stating " the kind of lines I was playing reminded me of the way a snake moves through the brush, a sort of speedy, forceful, liquid quality.

# literally, “ as the brush moves ,” i. e., jotting down whatever comes to one's mind, usually translated “ essay .”

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

I will put the date of my seventy-five years on it and afterwards I will never again pick up my brush.

Midway through the interview, Terry Gilliam put his feet up on the table and knocked the urn off, spilling the ashes and prompting a frantic, slapstick attempt to clean him up with a dustpan and brush, and subsequently a dustbuster.

She wrote in a letter of July, 1871, " I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe.

It is the design and execution of lettering with a broad tip instrument or brush in one stroke ( as opposed to built up lettering, in which the letters are drawn.

Cowboys took full advantage of their last brush with civilization before the long drive on the Chisholm Trail from Fort Worth up north to Kansas.

In 1997, Prof. Sheldon Gosline, while at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, devised an new approach to analyzing Egyptian hieratic via breaking up the component parts of each sign into brush strokes.

With the help of gusty winds the fire got out of control and started burning East into Manorville, where it met up with another brush fire that had broken out around the same time, as well as into part of the Town of Riverhead.

It is worked up into a usable lather by the brush, either against the face, in a shaving mug, bowl, scuttle, or palm of the hand.

When groundhogs are frightened, the hairs of the tail stand straight up, giving the tail the appearance of a hair brush.

Disc A rotates 90 degrees so that its charges line up with the brush of disc B Y1, where an opposite charge-polarization is induced on the B conducting shaft and the nearest sectors of B, similar to the description two paragraphs above.

There are many techniques to produce an acceptable wash, but the student method is to tilt the paper surface ( usually after fixing it to a rigid flat support ) so that the top of the wash area is higher than the bottom, then to apply the paint in a series of even, horizontal brush strokes in a downward sequence, each stroke just overlapping the stroke above to pull downward the excess paint or water ( the " bead "), and finally wicking up the excess paint from the last stroke using a paper towel or the tip of a moist brush.

The essential idea is to wet the entire sheet of paper, laid flat, until the surface no longer wicks up water but lets it sit on the surface, then to plunge in with a large brush saturated with paint.

The added paint can be shaped by tilting or stroking ; backruns can be induced by adding pure water or concentrated paint, or the color can be lightened by wicking up paint with a moist brush.

Raw ( undiluted ) paint is picked up with a premoistened, small brush ( usually a # 4 or smaller ), then applied to the paper with small hatching or crisscrossing brushstrokes.

To ensure this, colors are mixed by picking up the desired quantity of dissolved paint from the prewetted paint well, using a moist, clean brush, then applying the paint onto the flat mixing area of the palette.

Then the brush is rinsed before picking up any other paint.

Observing in the studio a panel Protogenes had prepared for a painting, Apelles walked over to the easel, and taking up a brush told the servant to tell Protogenes " this came from me ," and drew in colour an extremely fine line across the panel.

On early issues, gum was applied by hand, using a brush or roller, but in 1880 De La Rue came up with a machine gumming process using a printing press, and gum is now always applied by machine.

She often slept up to 18 hours a day and barely had the strength to brush her teeth, let alone play competitive tennis.

Clumps of brush rode down the ribbon.

Mr. Jack cried when the brush tipped his hat down over his eyes.

As the pool is emptied, stand by to brush down the walls and bottom while they are still wet.

It would come down to saying that Fromm paints with a broad brush, and that, after all, is not a conclusion one must work toward but an impression he has from the outset.

He could not cross the living room, brush past her, and bend down to retrieve the shorts.

Over the centuries many forest have been cut down and replaced with bush and brush.

Shovels, crow bars, picks, hoes, mattocks, saws, hammers, axes and hatchets were used to clear or make a road through trees or brush, cut down the banks to cross a wash or steep banked stream, build a raft or bridge, or repair the wagon.

The historical dictum to brush hair with one hundred strokes every day is somewhat archaic, dating from a time when hair was washed less frequently ; the brushstrokes would spread the scalp's natural oils down through the hair, creating a protective effect.

The word " egret " comes from the French word " aigrette " that means both " silver heron " and " brush ," referring to the long filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season.

As the charged sector ( moving red square ) rotates to the position of the brush ( down arrow tip ) next to front disc ( upper chain near center ), it induces a polarization of charge on the conducting shaft ( upper horizontal black line ) holding the brush, attracting negative ( green ) charge to the near side ( upper square becoming green ), so that positive ( red ) charge accumulates on the far side ( across the disc, 180 degrees away ) ( upper square becoming red ).

Second, colors can be mixed in at least four ways: ( 1 ) by completely mixing together on the palette the paints that exactly match a desired color ; ( 2 ) by loading together in a large brush the separate paints that approximately match the desired color, then letting these partially mix as the paint is applied to the paper ; ( 3 ) by laying down first a single paint color, then " dropping in " the remaining paint colors with the brush while the painted area is still wet ; ( 4 ) by glazing the paints as separate layers, one over another.

When the big cloud brush rains down upon the paper, it delivers a graded swath of ink encompassing myriad shades of gray to black.

The hair is placed on one of a pair of short-bristled brushes called " drawing brushes " with the root ends extending over one edge, and the second brush is pressed down on top of it so that a few strands can be withdrawn at a time, leaving the rest undisturbed.

Hunting nocturnally or crepuscularly, it can target and dive down, penetrating its talons through snow, grass or brush to seize rodents with deadly accuracy.

He would pull his cap down over his face and hold a large flat brush over his head, and wedge his body diagonally in the flue.

Using his back, elbows and knees, he would shimmy up the flue in the manner of a caterpillar and use the brush to dislodge loose soot, which would fall over him and down to the bottom, and a scraper to chip away the solid bits, as a smooth chimney was a safe chimney.

Sweeping of the wide flues of these low buildings was often done by the householder himself, using a ladder to pass a wide brush down the chimney.

There are three main types of bulldozer blades: a U-blade for pushing and carrying dirt relatively long distances, a straight blade for " knocking down " and spreading piles of dirt, and a brush rake for removing brush and roots.

That year Yoshida Shōin put down the brush and took up the sword.

At the moment before his death, Takuan painted the Chinese character 夢 (" dream "), laid down his brush and died.

After his bruising brush with authority in 1935, Douglas settled down to a less troubled and more productive period at school, during which he excelled both at studies and games, and at the end of which he won an Open Exhibition to Merton College, Oxford in 1938 to read History and English.