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Meanings of burnt cork in English
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Usage of burnt cork in English
1
Or I might give you a pair with a piece of burnt cork.
2
Look at my table there, all burned with matches and covered with burnt cork.
3
Then he blacked his face with burnt cork and put the cork in his pocket.
4
You talk as if you expected me to come to the altar smothered in burnt cork.
5
You talk as though you expected me to come to the altar smothered in burnt cork.
6
A smell of burnt cork arose as John stooped and clapped his hand over the scorched stocking.
7
Face and hands blackened with burnt cork.
8
A negro without the burnt cork was twanging a banjo and cracking the jokes of the corner-man.
9
What's he been doing with burnt cork?
10
The nose and eyes were cut; a grinning mouth and devilishly curved eyebrows were added with burnt cork.
11
I put several corks in the camp-fire, and burnt cork is the best stuff for blacking up known.
12
One proposed Othello, chiefly because it would be so easy to black a face with a burnt cork.
13
You have to with burnt cork.
14
Holding aloft torches and wooden crucifixes, a crowd of roughs, faces streaked with burnt cork, shoved into the courtyard.
15
The complexion of a murderer in a band-box; consisting of a large piece of burnt cork, and a coal-black peruke.
16
The burnt cork was in excellent condition and soon William Philander looked for all the world like a coal-black darkey.
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