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"I have a plan, Tom." "All right; let's have it." "Why not black Tubby up while he is asleep?" "Sam, you are a jewel. But where are we to get the lamp-black?" "I've got it already. I put several corks in the camp-fire, and burnt cork is the best stuff for blacking up known." "Right again. Oh, but we'll make William Philander look like a regular negro minstrel. And that's not all.
A charitable bootblack, who slept on the same straw with us there, lent my lover one of his boxes, a brush and a pot of blacking three quarters empty. For a fortnight Fortuné made his living and mine by blacking shoes in the Place de Grève. "But on Monday a Member of the Commune put his foot on the box to have his boots polished.
All regrets for the impossibility of ruining the character of Captain Puffin with regard to intoxicants were gone, for she had an even deadlier blacking to hand.
Why had the transcendent mystery of baking bread blinded me so long to the mysteries of sun and sky and wind in the trees? We passed a white farmhouse close to the road. By the gate sat the farmer on a log, whittling a stick and smoking his pipe. Through the kitchen window I could see a woman blacking the stove. I wanted to cry out: "Oh, silly woman!
"David Copperfield" is especially remarkable for the autobiographical element, not only in the wretched days of childhood at the wine merchant's, but in the shorthand-reporting in the House of Commons. Dickens never forgot his early degradation, as it seemed to him, in the blacking warehouse at Hungerford Stairs, or quite forgave those who sent him to an occupation he so loathed.
First mix the ivory black and sweet oil together, then the lemon and sugar candy, with a little vinegar to qualify the blacking, then add your spirits of salts and vitriol, and mix them all well together. N. B. The last ingredients prevent the vitriol and salts from injuring the leather, and add to the lustre of the blacking. Another.
'Why, what are YOUR shoes done with? said the Gryphon. 'I mean, what makes them so shiny? Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her answer. 'They're done with blacking, I believe. 'Boots and shoes under the sea, the Gryphon went on in a deep voice, 'are done with a whiting. Now you know. 'And what are they made of? Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity.
I passed near there last night and I saw half-a-dozen of the men blacking their officers' boots and singing, 'Britons, Britons, never will be slaves! It must be a tough job too, sir, for everybody's boots are covered with blood. The gutters are running with it." "I wish we had them with us to-day," said Sam.
There was something indescribably knowing in the collar of his coat, and the fresh blacking on a pair of boots with gaping soles, to which no language can do justice.
I was making money at this business when, in an evil moment, I was induced to merge it in the Cur-Spattering a somewhat analogous, but, by no means, so respectable a profession. My location, to be sure, was an excellent one, being central, and I had capital blacking and brushes. My little dog, too, was quite fat and up to all varieties of snuff.
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