Crowd or pack to capacity

Usage examples of wadding.

Then, from behind, Bosk of Port Kar thrust the wadding in her mouth and secured it in place.

He had put wadding in my mouth, and lashed it in with binding, gagging me, then pushed me from his side that he might sleep.

I removed the paper wadding from inside the hatband and pulled the hat down over my ears.

Now Andi complained loudly of being betrayed, wadding her clothes into a ball and throwing them against the wall in frustration.

The pawnbroker had also sold him a limited but fairly effective disguise: gray hair, spectacles, mouth wadding, plastic buckteeth which subtly transfigured his lip line.

In the exercises the men practised with many wrappings of wadding and cotton wound round the caestus, answering the purpose of the modern boxing glove.

In the light of a taper of candlenuts, smoking and sputtering by the wall, she loaded the two muskets, measuring the powder with great care, wadding it with bits of tapa, and ramming the bullets home with patches of the same material, greased with lard.

Bedding, cookware, food, candles, a tin box of lucifer matches and the sandpaper needed to ignite them, a dry bundle of fatwood kindling, a coil of rope, a hand axe, shotgun with powder and shot and wadding, grain for the horse, a mattock and spade.

I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot.

But when my foreign friend here is so thoroughly off her guard as to think it a safe time to tear up the rest of that leaf, and when Mrs. Bucket puts the pieces together and finds the wadding wanting, it begins to look like Queer Street.

The redcoats marched forward, trampling through the scatter of little fires started by their musket wadding.

It was enough to wash out the last rotting shreds of wadding and corruption.

Each new dawn in this remarkable country initiated a fresh assault upon the frail fort of their assumptions, as if the Asian sun were a big mystical revolver firing copper-jacketed days into the unprotected wadding of their heads.

Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, the workers in their tattered outfits of quilted cotton wadding, peasants in bulky coats and babushkas on their heads, hurrying along the streets, carrying avos-kas, string bags, or dragging homemade wooden suitcases.

He licked bits of chocolate off his fingers before wadding the wrapper and making a basketball shot into the trash can in the corner.