Sentences with distemper
dis·tem·per
D d - He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- To distemper colors with size
- The bedroom walls were distempered a dark, shiny green, the curtains were green with spots on and the bedspread an uninspiring khaki.
- At the nearby Scott Base, seals are infected with canine distemper, a virus passed to them by researchers' dogs.
- The family room pairs milk-painted and beeswaxed wainscoting below with a chalk-base distemper paint above.
- We use camlin water colour for fine painting and distemper in general.
- Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
- For example, parvovirus, distemper and rabies are diseases that can be vaccinated against.
- He painted in distemper, which produced a matt finish, and his gentle colour harmonies are very different from the brilliant or harsh hues often associated with German Expressionist painting.
- The walls were painted with a water-based powder distemper, usually in grass green or primrose colour.
- Many of the artists, most particularly Vuillard, painted these in distemper and left them unlined and unvarnished, making them more fragile than oils on canvas.
- At the heart of the book is James's description of the democratic temperament, which I take to be a healthy corrective to the distemper that characterizes so much of politics today.
- This species is also susceptible to a variety of diseases such as distemper, which is controlled in domestic dogs.
- Paper was printed by hand using wooden blocks and distemper paint, which dried to a soft, matt finish.
- Will the insurer cover routine wellness care, such as inoculations against distemper, rabies and other diseases?
- The Hamlet world's distemper, she argues, stems mostly from the way the generational/political life cycle has been upset.
- Kamikaze died of distemper at a young age, and in 1939 Keller received one of his older brothers as a replacement.
- The kitchen gleamed from the distemper Dad had painted on its walls in contrasting shades of green and pink.
- Feline Panleukopenia or distemper attacks the lining of the gastrointestinal tract causing ulcers.