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The silver quality in her hair had kept it from being singed, but the leather piece holding it had been burned away.
While it was grinding it smelt like the grinder's motor had burnt out, all singed rubber and smoking grease.
Onlookers who had gathered hoping to see the future of postal deliveries were showered with singed letters falling from the sky.
One old man looked up at her and a tear rolled down his singed and wrinkled old face.
Called nopales or nopalitos, the spines and glochids are singed off over a flame or scraped off before cooking.
After the pig had been bled, it was scalded or singed to loosen the bristles, which were scraped off.
His fighting gear was singed and tattered, and his face and exposed flesh was scorched.
The dough is wrapped in the broad leaf of the banana plant, which is singed in boiling water and allowed to steam until cooked.
I've instantly singed the hair from the upper joints of my fingers through misjudgment of these little details.
Anyone who has ever singed their eyebrows lighting a gas fire could have predicted that trouble lay ahead.
I wasn't burned, but the gently flowing grass was definitely singed from the fire.
The edge of her ear was singed when the firing pin struck the primer and blew sparks out of the gap at the front of the cylinder.
After making sure none of my limbs were singed or charred, I decided it was time to make a simple request.
Come autumn, the leaf colour warms up, becoming singed with red, a real treat to witness.
Most of the trees and grass, splintered and singed 10 years ago, have grown back to lush green.
As if flushed by the cold, the flowers are singed pink, resembling the dog roses of its common name.
His perfect pedigree was singed by stories in The New York Times that he exaggerated his Vietnam War record.
The fire also singed a turret of Holy Trinity Cathedral on Hart Street.
A second tongue of flame shot over his blue helmet, and it singed his eyelashes.
Quality guide-lines: dried mushrooms must not have signs of mould or extraneous matter, they must not be worm-eaten, decayed or singed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Some gained the forest where the crystalline ray crisped the overgrowth into black ashes as it nipped at their singed heels.
After the fowl is picked, the plugs of the feathers pulled out, and the hairs carefully singed, let it be well washed and dried.
One hand badly burnt, face and hair singed, Loveland was back in a minute from his errand at the gas main.
A hot wind knocked him senseless and red fire singed his fur.
The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places.
Mr. alkaloid had come from Ryde to London to get his hair singed.
Harvests perished like a moth that is singed in a candle-flame.
Not a single hair of the Captain's head seemed to have been singed.
His beard was singed in two places and his face was red and hot.
Still also have we to fear that incautious beards will get singed.
A smell of singed feathers and burning rubber filled the air.
We sat in silence, solemnly tinned celery, tinned sweet corn, a raffish touch of pineapple, also from a tin, and a few potatoes, the remainder decidedly singed.
As for color, if a once black cat had been well and thoroughly singed the result would have resembled the hue of this waif's thin, draggled, unsightly fur.
Then he clubbed the pig with a billet of oak which he had kept back when he was chopping the firewood, and stunned it, while the others slaughtered and singed it.
That singed piece of cloth was incredibly valuable, and he could not defend himself from astonishment at the casual manner it had come into his possession.
As when Heavens Fire Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks, or Mountain Pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted Heath.
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