1 Prof. Smith: What do you use the lamp black for, Mr. Jones?
2 The usual resin, beeswax, linseed oil and lamp black grafting wax was used.
3 A little lamp black will serve to deaden the color of the paint.
4 Plumbago, or the so-called Black Lead, is often adulterated to an enormous extent with lamp black .
5 He would draw a screen across the aurora borealis and paint out the rainbow with lamp black .
6 They were now outlined and elongated with lamp black which still clung to her lashes in flakes.
7 He went off to the shed where all sorts of things were stored, looking for lamp black .
8 The box is of thin wood, coated inside with petroleum lamp black , for the purpose of increasing the resonance.
9 Then he rubbed over the raised parts with lamp black , and pressed it down on a piece of white paper.
10 The ceiling was not only smoked by the lamp black , but was so low as to force one involuntarily bend down his neck.
11 The colour they use is lamp black , prepar'd from the Smoak of a Kind of Oily nut, used by them instead of Candles.
12 The substance employed was a species of lamp black , formed of the smoke of an oily nut which the natives burned to give them light.
13 Lamp black is made from soot mixed with an oil.
14 By the light of an oil lamp Black Jack was putting the final touches to the clean-up.
15 Colour the mixture by adding a little vermillion ,lampblack or prussian blue; be careful not to ignite the compound while dipping.
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