Argiento made him lie down on the bed, brought a pan of hot water, dipped some clean white linen cloth and applied it to extract the splinter.

A mist was walking on the water, white as cotton, but with a blending and merging grace.

Mark's thoughts must have been keeping silent pace beside his own, climbing the same crags in dirty white sneakers, clambering out on top of the headland and coming upon the sudden glinting water at the same instant.

A white wine, already at cool cellar temperature, may be adequately chilled in a bucket of ice and water or the freezing compartment of a refrigerator ( the former is far preferable ) in about fifteen minutes ; ;

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

Blanched almonds are shelled almonds that have been treated with hot water to soften the seedcoat, which is then removed to reveal the white embryo.

It was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying " We are entering white water, nothing seems right.

We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white.

The dark blue and white hooped uniform still worn today represents the blue water of Corio Bay and the white seagulls so numerous in the Bay.

Far east traditional painting is characterized by water based techniques, less realism, " elegant " and stylized subjects, graphical approach to depiction, the importance of white space ( or negative space ) and a preference for landscape ( instead of human figure ) as a subject.

Should the hailstone move into an area where mostly water vapour is available, it acquires a layer of opaque white ice.

# Lead Medium-attributed to Leonardo da Vinci-One part litharge or lead white, combined by cooking with three to four parts raw linseed oil, and three to four parts water.

* Type A looks like a " typical " killer whale, a large, black and white form with a medium-sized white eye patch, living in open water and feeding mostly on minke whales.

In 1968, Antonov photographed water droplets using black and white Kirlian photography.

In tempera, the pigments are bound in an albuminous medium such as egg yolk or egg white diluted in water.

Many novices have mistaken humid water marks on paper for white spore prints, or discolored paper from oozing liquids on lamella edges for colored spored prints.

Like other mozzarellas, they are semi-soft, white and rindless unripened mild cheeses which originated in Napoli and were once made only from milk of water buffaloes.

Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar ( traditionally sugar cane juice ), lime juice, sparkling water and mint.

Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have evolved into flippers.

A predator looking up from below ( such as an orca or a leopard seal ) has difficulty distinguishing between a white penguin belly and the reflective water surface.

As flowing water splashes over and around the rocks, air bubbles become mixed in with it and portions of the surface acquire a white colour, forming what is called " whitewater ".

* Kuzuyu, is a thick white Japanese tea made by adding arrowroot powder to hot water

One part white distilled vinegar ( 5 % acidity ) diluted with two parts of distilled / filtered water creates a suitable solution for the application of water-slide decals to hard surfaces.

And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.

Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

He smiled and stuck a large finger with white hairs sprouting on it into his ear as though that might help.

We don't 'low nigras to walk on the same sidewalk with white men where I come from.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

Underneath the big one, in the silent moonlight, lay a dead pigeon, and on the smaller bell, the Clemence, two gray and white birds slept huddled together in the cold winter air.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

Threaded on a skewer with new boiled potatoes, a bit of green pepper, a fresh white mushroom -- any one of these spiced meats makes a man a cook, and a meal a feast.

Glazed with two coats of Creek-Turn white stoneware glaze ( no glaze on sides or bottom ).