japan
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Shame on anyone who shall try to shame them for that and deny them basic rights. tpng813 Just like how japan denies its massive massacres across china.
From Time ● Aug. 13, 2013
The project failed, and Psalmanazar considered the miscarriage of the white Formosan japan as a providential warning to repent of all his impostures of Formosa!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
In the other case shellac, when rubbed with oil, should be cleaned with japan.
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead
Fillers consist of silex or of ground earths mixed with oil, japan, and turpentine.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The addition of a small quantity of japan dryer to printing ink will make it dry quickly.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by James Elverson
His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He lighted the shank of candle in the japanned candlestick and regarded the bed—as spineless as a hammock and covered with a dirty patchwork quilt, the cotton batting spilling from the edges.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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This functionary I met, swelling with importance, but a trifle blown from the frequent sounding of his clarion, to wit, a japanned fish-horn.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The walls, highly painted and glittering with japan, were hung with Chinese pictures in gilded and japanned frames.
From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton
The base and pillar are in one piece, neatly japanned black.
From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Ernst Leitz
In japanning curved pieces, such as mud-guards, etc., in hanging up the work in the oven see that the liquid does not run to extremities and there form ugly blots or blotches of enamel.
From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown
For some time he earned his living as a writing-master; after which he appears to have gone into the japanning trade, and in 1750 embarked some capital in a letter foundry.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
E Enamelling and japanning stoves, 29-46. —— —— —— —— heated by direct fire, 34. —— —— —— —— heated by hot-water pipes, 36. —— or japanning metals, 20-28. —— old work, 27.
From Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William N. Brown
Over the ordinary tanning of the sailor, he seemed masked by a visor of japanning, dotted all over with freckles, so intensely yellow, and symmetrically circular, that they seemed scorched there by a burning glass.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
It must be remembered that the art of japanning was looked upon at one time as an accomplishment, for about the year 1700 many gentlewomen were taught the art.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess