 | 1874 - 418 pages
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of tbe thickness" of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids, over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the prophet may be supposed to mean by rending the eyes with paint."... | |
 | 1879 - 1248 pages
...first dipping into the powder a small wooden bodkin, of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it through the eyelids, over the ball of the eye, we have a lively image of what the prophet (Jer. iv. 80, ' Though i in m rendest thy face with painting,' or ' lead ore ') intended to convey. The 8009... | |
 | Lounger in society the pseud - Etiquette - 1881 - 374 pages
...this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jerem. iv. 30) may be supposed to mean by rending the... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1883 - 638 pages
...this operation is performed by dipping first into this powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through...lively image of what the prophet (Jer. iv. 30) may be supposed to mean " (Shaw, ' Travels in Barbary and the Levant,' 2nd edit., p. 229). Ver. 31. — For... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 874 pages
...this opertion is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thii.kncss of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall hive a lively image of what the Prophet ijcr. iv. jo.) may be supposed to mean by renilinf Ike... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 838 pages
...thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer. iv. 30.) may be supposed to mean by rending the eyes with painting. This practice is no doubt of great antiquity; for... | |
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None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin... 
