Heart or soul

Usage examples of pith.

My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.

Until last year along name the Fashoda crisis and quite early one morning Covess was discovered in spats and a pith helmet, working his way around Piccadilly trying to recruit volunteers to invade France.

Until last year along came the Fashoda crisis, and quite early one morning Covess was discovered in spats and a pith helmet, working his way around Piccadilly, trying to recruit volunteers to invade France.

A fecula is washed from the abundant pith, which is chemically a starch, very demulcent, and more digestible than that of rice.

By the Arabs the pith of the Date-bearing Palm is eaten in like manner.

He was, however, in his personalities, chiefly remarkable for two queer and twinkling little eyes, and for a habitual custom of licking his lips whenever he said any thing of pith or jocosity, or thought that he had done so, which was very often the case.

The small cap with its insufficient puggaree is replaced by the pith helmet, the shade of which is increased by a long quilted covering.

He received money from Jimmy, a Rover Boy book from Betty Raye, and Anna Lee surprised him with a genuine Jungle Jim pith helmet.

Fiery lights shivered across his defences and he turned, seething with dark crackling humour, and spoke to the two Scarlet Magi who assailed him, uttered intimate truths, fatal Abstractions, and the world about them was wracked to the pith.

Moist pith of farls of bread, the froggreen wormwood, her matin incense, court the air.

The pith of the matter was that the Sieur Brian Philip Francis de la Montaigne proclaimed before all men the greater chivalry and skill at arms of the knights of France and of Dauphiny, and likewise the greater fairness of the ladies of France and Dauphiny, and would there defend those sayings with his body without fear or attaint as to the truth of the same.

Travel trunks, maps, and guidebooks evoked a peripatetic life of adventure, while bush jackets and pith helmets allowed customers to buy into the illusion.

My favorite lemon ices are flavored with the zestthe yellow layer of peel but not the white part, or pith, which is quite bitter.

One bent grayhead wore a yellow pith helmet and a double-breasted blue suit.

None of them wore the jibba, and their faces were un bearded They rushed towards each other, and Penrod saw the khaki of their tunics and the distinctive shape of their pith helmets.