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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTShe fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTAt home Liszt doesn't wear his long abb's coat, but a short one, in which he looks much more artistic.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYTo travelers blessed with golden sunshine, the Rhine may wear a grander, nobler aspect, and to such I leave it.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThe Swiss are freemen, and wear the fact unconsciously but palpably on their brows and beaming from their eyes.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYWe are drawing near the chateau, and you might as well wear a cockade tricolor as let them hear that.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSLouis turned at the exclamation, and looked on the faithful servant; but no tear was in his eye, no sound on his lip.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERWORDS RELATED TO WEAR AND TEAR
- abuse
- banefulness
- damage
- deleteriousness
- detriment
- disservice
- foul play
- hurt
- ill
- immorality
- impairment
- infliction
- iniquity
- loss
- marring
- mischance
- mischief
- misfortune
- misuse
- noxiousness
- outrage
- perniciousness
- prejudice
- ravage
- ruin
- ruination
- sabotage
- sin
- sinfulness
- vandalism
- vice
- violence
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- disservice
- foul play
- hurt
- ill
- immorality
- impairment
- infliction
- iniquity
- loss
- marring
- mischance
- mischief
- misfortune
- misuse
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- outrage
- perniciousness
- prejudice
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- ruin
- ruination
- sabotage
- sin
- sinfulness
- vandalism
- vice
- violence
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- profit
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- reason
- relevance
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- serviceability
- treatment
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- usage
- usefulness
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- value
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- wear and tear
- wont
- worth
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