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Meanings of touchwood in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "punk"
Examples for "punk"
1
As for Bolton, he defines 'punk' in terms of how it looks.
2
The punk-at-heart trio won't stop making new music anytime soon, Armstrong says.
3
The parasite is not just a punk out having a good time.
4
That's why it's often compared to the punk rock movement, he said.
5
What he cherished about punk four decades ago was the DIY aspect.
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That is the second stage in the story,-thespark on the tinder.
2
I wonder if that works? Not surprisingly, coconut husk is great tinder.
3
The bark of the cedar tree is a good source of tinder.
4
She has been bid in-probablyby some tinder-strapperof the big pirates.
5
Presently a small flame appeared in the tinder, and leaped eagerly upward.
1
He arranged kindling in the fireplace and touched a match to it.
2
Cocaine was used to accentuate, and dextrorphan to attenuate the kindling process.
3
A spark spell caught the text and then set the kindling aflame.
4
She didn't bother with kindling: there were advantages to being a red.
5
Mary Ogeke in Nigeria, gathering kindling for boiling water, is my favorite.
1
Hildemara had shown real spunk that day, and at other times, too.
2
She's got spunk enough to waak to Lunnon if she'd a mind.
3
All the guys smile, like they enjoy a chick with some spunk.
4
Kotex and rubbers snared and flapping, full of Middleton spunk and blood.
5
Edward talked about the spunk of the British fighting our war.
Usage of touchwood in английском
1
There was no moisture there, and his mouth was as dry as touchwood.
2
The kitchen door-post is now as rotten as touchwood; no bolt will fasten it.
3
He seized the dry stick again and scraped off another little pile of touchwood.
4
First she gathered wreckwood and straw, and struck flint over touchwood and teened a fire.
5
The old man fumbled with a finger, scraping together the flakes of touchwood in a tinder-box.
6
A Hindoo village is as inflammable as touchwood.
7
The woods were one medley of fallen trees, rotting into touchwood, hidden boulders, and matted briers.
8
The rays passing through the glass increased many times in power and struck directly upon the touchwood.
9
This was also the case with the wooden shafts of the spears, which powdered away like touchwood.
10
The whole boat was mere touchwood.
11
When we saw the fragment it looked mostly like tinder, or touchwood, 'eld-gamall,' stone-old, as the Icelanders say.
12
She was suffocating; she might certainly make herself comfortable; everyone was not gifted with a skin as dry as touchwood.
13
A wild gooseberry may sometimes be seen growing out of the decayed 'touchwood' on the top of a hollow withy-pollard.
14
We found in the Indian huts at Uruana the vegetable substance called touchwood of ants,* (* Yesca de hormigas.)
15
Just at that moment there came a fearful crash, the stout timbers and beams were rent, as if composed of mere touchwood.
16
The little monster has set the marsh-grass on fire, and it was I who taught the devil's spawn how to use touchwood!
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