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 Gough, George W.
The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard
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 Jefferies, Richard
They daub their bodies with a red earth, like the ruddle used in England for marking sheep.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
Ducange, with the authorities quoted above, make its colour green; but the sinoper, or ruddle of commerce, is of a dark red or purplish hue.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
"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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Even to-day those ruddled drawings can set a spell.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
"I'll be rid o' that ruddled sack o' lollypops now," observed Lord Dunmore, complacently.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The slatternly bedchamber, with its red turkey twill window-curtains and cheap gaudy wallpaper, which had belonged to the ruddled woman with the bleached hair, was a palace to the little one.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
Every one of these ruddled workers, slouching with his dog at his heels to see something of the fight, was a true unit of his race.
From The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
