shapin

If desired, air-dry clays can be colored by mixing various pigments into them before shapin (acrylic paints are probably the most commonly used), or they can also be painted afterward.

Hand Print | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

I got lot's of whittlin 'sense, just ain't got no shapin' sense!

Lazz Loads: The Short Magnums 2008

My day was shapin up to be really borin so what did I do?

dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

An 'every day, just about, askin' me how you was shapin 'up.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

An 'every day, just about, askin' me how you was shapin 'up.

Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

But I'll stay on, myself, till we see how our try at a parley is shapin 'up.

Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

He had fairly been playin 'with it for years, always polishin' it or shapin 'it off here or there.

The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar Margaret Penrose

Only one thing was shapin 'itself clear in my head, and fin'lly I states it flat.

Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

So things was shapin 'themselves well,' cordin 'to Scudder's notion.

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I'm leavin 'Miss Vildy a free agent, but I'm shapin' circumstances so 's to give her a chance.

Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889