distempering

He was in shirt-sleeves distempering the walls of the low, timbered sitting-room.

Over the River 2004

And those were they, who distempering themselues with these hote wines, haue brought in that sicknesse, which hath infected honester men then themselues.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

There was little to do in the workshop except painting and distempering, which was being done by a couple of Balinese boys from the village, who were doing it very well.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

It presses upon a great bundle of nerves; it distorts the figure; it stamps a character of its own upon the whole organism; it is even accused of distempering the mind itself.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

By the proceedings of the synod in accommodating a suitable and proportionable remedy to every malady at that time distempering the

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

In the Bolognese Manuscript, one is directed to make a simple size from incense, white gum, and sugar candy, distempering it with wine; and in another place, to use the white of egg, whipped with the milk of the fig tree and powdered gum Arabic.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Smith distempering the ceilings; Smith tiling the front door-step; Smith mending the wireless, the doll's house, the car; Smith waiting at a dinner-party, even on one occasion cooking the nursery luncheon; Smith the versatile, Smith the ingenious, Smith the reassuring.

Try Anything Twice 1938

To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.

Billy Budd 1924

Painting the outsides of houses and shops, washing off and distempering ceilings, stripping old paper off walls, painting and papering rooms and staircases, building new rooms or other additions to old houses or business premises, digging up old drains, repairing leaky roofs and broken windows.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

This job was the cause of the sacking of the Semi-drunk and another man named Bill Bates, who were sent into the kitchen to clean it down and prepare it for painting and distempering.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890