"Lead ore" Quotes from Famous Books
... Shaw, "take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged their 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 of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, ... — The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |