Sentence Examples:
Asked Paul, pouring some lotion over a wad of lint and speaking indifferently.
They made more lint there, however, than they drank wine; the orders of the chiefs were only to drink reddened water.
Within the lamp was a wick made from the lint of wild hemp, fed with goat's fat.
These lint baskets were used in removing the lint from the lint room to the place where the cotton was baled.
Yet I pointed out to her that she could be of very great use in dressing such wounds as had been received, and so she came back to her usual brightness, and brought out bandages, and lint, and ointment, and thread, and was presently very busy.
With the sound of a faint explosion it vanished into the thick weather bodily, leaving behind of its stout substance not so much as one solitary strip big enough to be picked into a handful of lint for, say, a wounded elephant.
Always their hands were busy with the making of bandages and the fluffing of lint.
Perhaps while he is dabbing with lint and lotions the real remedy is the knife.
The problem of the time had two possible solutions; the invention of a machine for cleaning the lint from the seed of the sort already at hand, or the introduction of some different variety whose lint was more lightly attached.
This would sweep the teeth clean as fast as they emerged lint-laden from the hopper.
No metal ties were available during this period and ropes of cotton were used to bind the bales of lint.
Until flax could be grown the women were obliged to be content with lint made from the bark of dead nettles.
Our stage swords have neither edge nor point, for they are only intended for show; the wounds they make disappear suddenly when the curtain falls, without the aid of the surgeon with his instruments and lint.
Ask his lackey how often he has had to prepare lint of him.
I prescribed careful cleansing, and the use of lint and lotion, and I gave a supply of the necessary material.
He next scraped and shredded a lot of dry Cedar wood like lint.
After the task was completed, and lint and fresh bandages were applied, the doctor sunk with a sigh, as of relief, upon a chair, and assured the young man that he only needed rest for the present, and in a day or two might return to his friends.
Lint and bandages had been applied, but, of course, uniforms, bodies and even the floor were saturated with blood.
Run, Julian, for the roll of lint and the strapping in yon cupboard.
Work of all kind was stopped, and a general appearance of completion of work was established; yarn was reeled off, no lint was allowed to remain on the rock of the wheel, and all work implements were laid aside.
Ambulance corps hastened their preparation, packing saws, knives, lint, and bandages.
The joint is then wrapped in a piece of lint soaked with this concoction.
It obviates wide cracks that gather dust and lint.
The surgeons clapped a great wad of lint into the hole, and we bound it up.
He removes the "horse" applying at once a little lint or other tinder to the glowing particles of bamboo.
If a piece of lint soaked therein be kept applied to warts, they will wither and disappear.
Old ladies made lint and knitted socks and other necessary articles that soldiers need.
Quin asked, brushing a speck of lint from the toe of his shining shoe.
The seed will be found better matured, and consequently more valuable to manure another crop, besides being so much easier separated from the lint, which will be found as much improved in quality as quantity.
They brushed imaginary bits of lint from his coat lapel.
He called this "pawing a guy over"; and the lint ladies he designated as "thread pickers."
The Moon suggested hope, vague and undefined, lint still hope.
In the business streets the citizens were delivering up their muskets, and the women were making lint.
Soft cloth without lint is necessary for French polishing.
As he spoke he took a needle and silk from his case, just as if he had brought them expecting that they would be wanted, took some lint from one pocket, a roll of bandage from another, and in an incredibly short time had the wound bound up.
A waterproof covering over the lint will help this, but is not absolutely necessary.
Dry the nostrils with a little soft lint or clean rag, and force in a little fine almond oil.
Stores were being brought in, packages of clothing and lint received at the door.
This will remove all grit and lint that is sure to get into the bottle however carefully it may be corked.
Eight days after the operation, take away the bandage, the lint, the fastenings, and the thread.
He sat down and looked through his shaggy eyebrows at the lint and dust and specimens of ore.
The effect of frost upon the lint so picked is to produce tinged and stained cotton.
As he removed a lightly fastened bandage and lifted a pad of lint beneath it.
What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
He dried himself on a greasy towel, damp and dirty and ragged, that left his face covered with shreds of lint.
Keep woo, and it will be dirt; keep lint, and it will be silk.
"Lint mellows and improves by keeping, but wool rots."
The beds, the lint for binding up wounds, the surgical instruments, the medicines and all the objects of immediate necessity were buried beneath the ruins, and for the first few days there was a scarcity of everything, even of food.
He had had "last whack" at Daddy, who was now busy brushing lint off his trousers.
The vehicles kept moving about on the boulevard, and women were making lint before the doors.
The men were carried into her house, and, true enough, she had "every thing ready," bandages, lint, laudanum, and all.
A wad of lint was placed upon the wound and bandaged tightly round the body.
I was very much interested in seeing how much better the lint is baled than in America.
Milkweed, lint and its strips of fine bark are glued to twigs, and form the exterior of the nest.
Women and children and slaves are wending to the hospitals, with baskets of refreshments, lint, and bandages.
Ruth found warm water, ointment, lint and bandages, and deftly bound up the wound.
One of the young women hurried with a casket of lint and salves, in which was also a little vial of mistletoe water.
A package of lint and absorbent cotton was pushed down into his pocket.
Great difficulty was experienced in separating the seed from the lint of upland cotton.
Hastily exclaimed the old lady, as she nervously pressed a fresh piece of lint into the gushing wound.
The General then moved into the town of Gettysburg, where, in contrast to the heartless conduct of these men, we found patriotic women at work in every house pulling lint and doing what they could to alleviate the suffering that was all around them.
Have you lint and balm in your satchel?
Thus, gradually, they faded from the Studio, much to the annoyance of the Judge, who had ceased typing on purpose to listen, while ostensibly merely engaged in picking lint from his types with a brass pin.
Peter Stock beckoned him close and called huskily for lint and oils.
His right hand was swathed for repairs, the arm slung, and a thickness of lint was fitted under his collar.
To be named "Pocahontas" is to borrow glory and to attract excitement as surely as dark flannel attracts lint.
In five minutes the now experienced young nurses had washed the place with antiseptic and had bound it with lint.
An amazing quantity of lint and bandages was sent aboard.
The pain of it all was such that she sank back almost fainting, but with a violent effort she roused herself, and stretching out her hand for the lint and the ointment placed within her reach by the nurse, she dressed the wound.
He carried about him, in a leather case suspended from his shoulder, lint, bandages and a bottle of balm.
Meanwhile, my wife and daughters shall remain at home to prepare lint, sew bandages, and nurse the sick and wounded.
Confusingly, this is also referred to as 'linting' code.
Excess verbiage in a document, as in "this draft has too much lint".
She will prepare lint, make nourishing soups, wash bandages, and sew shirts and clothing.
She sent the maids flying this way and that, one to fetch hot water, another bandages, a third lint, and altogether made such a commotion in the place that one would have thought I had been brought there to die.
For the cravat was of soft muslin, and might, I fancied, be of some use as lint.
A quantity of bandages, lint, absorbent cotton, etc., completes this essential equipment.
If the Blood does not particularly flow out of any considerable Vessel, but trickles almost equally from every Spot of the Wound, it may very safely be permitted to bleed, while some Lint is speedily preparing.
Stand by with lint, bandages and antitoxin!
His clothing was dusty with the bedding lint.
Blurted out Eli, as he snapped a piece of imaginary lint from his angled knee with the index finger of his right hand.
It lay on the face of the skeleton, preserving the bone, as it did the leather and the lint or flax around the rivet.
If the tooth be hollow, it should be plugged with lint or lead to prevent it breaking under the forceps.
Many of the other women are shredding lint, the elder children assisting.
Waif, bring me the roll of lint that stands on the top shelf in the surgery.
They unraveled all the old linen table cloth and brought me bags full of lint and bandages.
His hair and beard were white, fine and thin, hanging in tags and wisps as fluffy as lint.
Owing to mismanagement on the part of the directors, it was short of linen, lint, and medicine.
All the rest do is to scrape lint and read newspapers and potter.
This Jack Straw had lint locks that glistened under the moon; the lashes of his eyes were white.
In the meantime you must keep quiet; that's all you want, and some tepid water, a sponge and lint.
When she entered her own house, she found her mother there, scraping lint and making bandages, while a pot of strong coffee was already steaming on the hearth and piles of cut bread were stacked upon the table.
Books were few upon the frontier, and those few he knew by heart; so he scraped lint, made bandages, brewed medicines, cultivated a certain philosophical turn of mind, and wondered vaguely where and how it would end.
"They don't know what to make of you, 'Lassie with the lint white locks,'" her uncle laughed.
String mops scatter lint, and it is impossible to wash them entirely clean.
How these fuzzy bits of lint and flax fly about the room; my throat and nose are full.
Women will make clothes and tents: children will tear old linen for lint.
He continues to search himself long after he has raked up the lint from the bottom of his pockets.
The people here, instead of cleansing a wound with tepid water and lint, apply all kinds of salves and ointments.
As she says all this in a breath, the woman glances now at you, now at the sailor, who has turned away as though he did not hear her and plucks some lint from his pillow, and her eyes sparkle with peculiar enthusiasm.