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japan

[juh-pan] / dʒəˈpæn /




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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

For fine work the surface should not be so glossy as to look like japan work.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

A japan screen was unfolded at the end of the room.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Japan colors will give a quicker drying stain than that made with oil colors, and in this case omit the japan and add a little varnish to bind it.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

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

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

One contained drums only; the next military toys, small swords, guns and pistols; the next would be all small carts; then came one with dolls’ furniture, most neatly made in japanned tin or iron.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

These fine and elbow pins may be obtained either “white” or japanned.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley

One was of nickel or silver; the other, a trifle larger, appeared, as Grindley lifted it out, to be an ordinary japanned cash-box, with the key sticking in the lock.

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Dick interposed with a question as to the process, aim, and object of japanning, but Mr Button passed the question by.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

My table I like; though he has stuck in among the ornaments two vile china jars, that look like the modern japanning by ladies.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham

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

While at Birmingham he made some important improvements in the process of japanning, and gained a considerable fortune.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

The above four receipts are used in japanning.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young


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