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  • Beme shawl, when I think of that espos of a Clancarbry, the foodbrawler, of the socia-tionist party with hiss blackleaded chest, hello, Prendregast! that you, Innkipper, and all his fourteen other fullback maulers or hurling stars or whatever the dagos they are, baiting at my

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • A shallow pan, known as a moulding pan, is then filled with melted yellow wax, making a smooth, even surface, which is blackleaded.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

  • Arithelli cleaned the doorsteps and the kitchen stove, blackleaded the grates and prepared the meals, which more often than not consisted only of potatoes and tea.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • A lad of about twelve years old was feeding the fire from a pile of dry branches that lay by his side -- a lad with short woolly curls, shining, gleaming white teeth, thick lips, and a skin as dark as if he had been blackleaded all over.

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • The back of the moulding is waxed, to prevent deposit of copper thereon, and the face of the matrix is wetted to drive away all films or bubbles of air which may otherwise be attached to the blackleaded surface of the type.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

  • It was from an old song Mrs. Honeysett used to sing when she blackleaded the stoves.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • "At present your work is rubbin 'that stove, and if it ain't done in remarkable quick time it'll have to be blackleaded all over again, bein' as how it'll have got too dry!"

    Mates at Billabong 1911

  • These little islets are formed by a collection of boulders of red granite filled in with silt, and have a very strange effect, for the boulders are rounded by the action of the water, which, combined with the effect of the hot sun, has caused the red stone to become coated with a hard skin, black and smooth to touch, just as though they had been blackleaded.

    Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

  • And by the way, I saw that the silver had oxidised, and was like a blackleaded stove in color.

    News from Nowhere 1892

  • And by the way, I saw that the silver had oxidised, and was like a blackleaded stove in color.

    News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

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