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Example sentences for "brown paper"

  • The scrap-book might be made of brown paper.

  • They trouble the fish with too much light, but if a brown paper case of the same size and shape as the aquarium be made it can be slipped over the vessel and removed occasionally when you wish to observe the movements of the fish.

  • Paste over them very neatly a strip of brown paper or other suitable material.

  • It was a sort of brown paper parcel, about eighteen inches long, and it was tied up and sealed.

  • The parcel was wrapped up in brown paper.

  • He didn't carry any grip, or have his trunk sent for; he took nothing but a parcel wrapped in brown paper.

  • On the Wednesday morning he was las' seen, he left the house about nine o'clock, with a package wrapt in brown paper.

  • Having spread a piece of brown paper on the top, apply a flat iron just hot enough to scorch the paper.

  • Then rub the stained part briskly with a piece of whity-brown paper.

  • Finally, when certain all is securely fastened, wet a piece of brown paper, cut to exactly cover the entire back of plaque and frame both, cover it with paste and press it in place.

  • If brown paper is used, a rectangular piece about two feet long, by one and a half feet wide, is a good-shaped piece to use.

  • The open spaces, c, are to be closed by several thicknesses of brown paper pasted or tacked across on the inside of the frame.

  • Each room had, too, a great cut-glass chandelier, swathed in brown paper-muslin and looking like a gigantic withered pear.

  • The shadow of the chandelier, muffled in its balloon of brown paper muslin, made an island of darkness on the ceiling, and the four big canvases were four black oblongs outlined in faintly glimmering gilt.

  • His first effort was to make the room beautiful; so the crimson curtains were drawn across the windows, and the cut-glass chandeliers in both rooms emerged glittering from their brown paper-muslin bags.

  • She sprang up, and had half dressed herself before she remarked, lying on the empty bed opposite her own, some peculiar-looking packages done up as usual in brown paper.

  • Brown paper, silk paper,--and one of Bagster's octavo Bibles with limp covers was revealed.

  • Take from the iron and invert on brown paper to drain.

  • Fry in deep fat and drain on brown paper.

  • Stuff, dip in crumbs, egg and crumbs, fry in deep fat five minutes and drain on brown paper.

  • For to what greater extent could one trespass upon an author's patience, energy, brown paper, string, and commodities generally?

  • From a piece of white or reddish-brown paper cut a one-inch square.

  • Let the children make their own brown paper bags, looking at a real one for a model.

  • Knives and forks should be wrapped up in brown paper, each one by itself.

  • When the dust is well shaken out of carpets, if there are any grease spots on them, grate on potter's clay very thick, cover them with a brown paper, and set on a warm iron.

  • Take them up with a skimmer and lay them on brown paper to free them from the grease.

  • When the croquettes are fried a nice golden brown, put them on a brown paper a moment to free them from grease.

  • Drop them into hot lard and fry about two minutes a delicate brown; take them out with a skimmer and drain them on a piece of brown paper.

  • When they are done, lay them on brown paper or a hair sieve, to drain off all fat; then serve on a napkin.

  • The cage must now be tightly packed with old newspapers, brown paper, or clean straw, but with neither hay nor "flocks.

  • Roll very thin, cut out, fry in smoking-hot fat, and drain on brown paper.

  • Saute in hot lard, drain on brown paper, and serve at once.

  • Dip in eggs and crumbs again, fry brown in deep fat, drain on brown paper, and serve immediately.

  • Roll up a tube for pill boxes, of two thicknesses of brown paper.

  • They are best made entirely of brown paper, pasted all over, exactly like wheel cases, and choked in the same manner.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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