blackhead
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Last week, putting his worn velvet slippers carefully on the blacklead fender before the fireplace, he declared stoutly: "They've had our Arthur in prison four times�but he never did do anything wrong."
From Time Magazine Archive
Brush the stove over with liquid blacklead, and polish it with brushes.
From The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience by Harrison, Mary
Maitland knew all the blacklead caves, broad-hatted brigands, and pea-green trees.
From The Mark Of Cain by Lang, Andrew
Place it, together with several small pieces of rosin and a little borax or carbonate of soda, in a small blacklead crucible, and heat to very bright redness over a good fire.
Mrs. Sawney gave a stir to a pail of blacklead and water behind the front door, whilst Mrs. Grimps seized a soft broom, which she had saturated in water used for washing-up the dinner-things.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Jenkins, Hebert
