rosin

They passed time during rain delays playing bocce ball with a rosin bag, and Herbert had to win those competitions too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

“OK, this is the rosin bag and a donut. Oh, my Lord. And I put them in my pocket.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Russo now wants to pass along the rosin bag and donut, perhaps for auction.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

“But the rosin is also different than it is in Japan and works well with the balls here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

All of my childhood memories rush in: I'm standing in the wings, watching Papa take his viola from the case, rosin the bow and begin to tune among the chatter, the dinner plans, the gossip.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.

From Time Magazine Archive

When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

See-sawing, t' fiddler now begins The best that he is able; He rosins t' stick an' screws up t' pins An' jumps up on to t' table, To play that neet.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

Several fairly successful paints of this type have recently appeared in the market; some of them being made of acid rosins compounded with vegetable oils.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010

Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the 106 members of the Boston Symphony, like thousands of symphonic musicians all over the U.S., polished their brasswork and rosined their bows for the start of a new season.

From Time Magazine Archive

They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old fiddler took a fresh chew of long, green tobacco, and rosined his bow.

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor

She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay