calcimining

Example Sentences

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Having faith in Major Bagley's word, the house was cleaned from top to bottom, much painting and calcimining having been done.

From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack

"Out from here, you dirty loafer you!" she shrieked, and grabbed a calcimining brush from one of the many paintpots that bestrewed the hallway.

From Elkan Lubliner, American by Glass, Montague

Smell for smell, the interior of that hotel may have harbored a worse one than the odor of henhouse which pervaded ours, I hope from the materials for calcimining the rooms on the patio.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean

Finishing touches installation stained glass windows drum octagon removal scaffolding exterior interior edifice interior calcimining dome drum octagon tuckpointing cleaning floodlighting entire structure completed synchronizing closing weeks glorious twelvemonth annals Holy Faith.

From Dawn of a New Day by Shoghi Effendi

A recent job of calcimining had transformed the room from a dirty grayish, white to a soft shade of pink; the old-fashioned furniture had been "done over," and glowed dully in the fading light.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)