ruddle
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For my share of disguising, I now rubbed together some ruddle and dry soil, and the mixture gave a necessary touch of coarseness to her hands.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
Jud turn’d rahnd an gurned at th’ frunt o’ th’ show wi’ his faace aw ruddle.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
They revolted in 363-362, but were reduced again, and the Athenians established a monopoly of the ruddle, or red earth, which was one of the most valuable products of the island.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
He rubbed the edge with ruddle, and, placing the millstaff on the stone, turned it about on its shorter axis: where the ruddle left its red mark more pecking would be required.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
She sat now with bowed back by the empty fireplace, and looked across at Nigel with all the harsh lines of her old ruddled face softening into love and pride.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Even to-day those ruddled drawings can set a spell.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
I am apt to believe, that they took the first hint of their dress from a fair sheep newly ruddled.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"I'll be rid o' that ruddled sack o' lollypops now," observed Lord Dunmore, complacently.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"Darn the ruddled vixens who come a-drabbing into my mews, with a hussy tew hail you afoot and a baggage tew boot on the boot—" "Keep quiet!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Three hundred pistoles!" he echoed; "for ruddling the blades and risking the lives of nine of the finest swordsmen in Europe?
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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