An artist's brush made of sable hairs.
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Examples for "sable "
Examples for "sable "
1 Streaks of reflected starlight blurred on the sable water below, growing closer.
2 No sable ; no tracks of sable ; no old signs, even, of sable .
3 And Etienne appeared, dressed in sable mourning, and bowed before the throne.
4 The flight of the squirrel and the unsuccessful sable were quickly forgotten.
5 The young sacristans, the sable nuns, vanished successively through the open door.
1 When thoroughly dry, touch the ends occasionally with green; this must be done with the sable brush .
2 Paint in the corolla a small circle of crimson points, using for this purpose a sable brush .
3 Wash the calyx with a weak solution of gum water, using for the purpose a sable brush .
4 It is painted after it is made: the centre is touched with a sable brush - the colour , second yellow.
5 This can be applied with a sable brush as in water-colour painting, and makes a rich velvety dark.
6 Before sailing from England I had bought a little colour-box, one good sable brush , and a few H.B.
7 She reached down and swirled her sable brush in a little jar of water, and then opened her travelling palette case.
8 With a small sable brush , form a triangular spot of deep yellow at the lower end of the broad part of the petal.
9 The day I arrived Munnings was much upset because he had no sable brushes .
10 Two small sable brushes are for veining, as in geraniums.
11 When I was leaving I said to Munnings, "What about those sable brushes , Munnings?"
12 "What the hell has that got to do with my sable brushes ? "
13 Your brushes, my dear...your soft, sable brushes ... licking my skin like the tip of your tongue, coaxing out my colors.
14 "Second," said he, "have you got any sable brushes ? "
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