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turpentine

tur puhn tahyn

  • n  obtained from conifers (especially pines)
  • n  volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally

  • Critics have tarred Eggers with the brush of irony, and You Shall Know Our Velocity seems to be his attempt to cleanse himself in the turpentine of earnestness.
  • Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before.
  • Using opaque water-colors (because he is allergic to turpentine), he makes pictures that are just true enough to life and no more imaginative than the market calls for.
News & Articles

  • How much do you know about Albert Lewis?
    At his own expense, Albert Lewis shelled the road from the Old Hastings Road intersection on South Dixie Highway to what is now Lewis Point Road in the Moultrie area, then a bustling community with a lumber mill, turpentine business and citrus roads.
    June 10, 2013 - The St. Augustine Record
Quotes

  • Sebastian Horsley in Reuters India
    They said I was suffering from moral turpitude,Horsley said. "I was very surprised. I'm feeling quite well. I've never drunk turpentine in my life."
  • Al Sharpton in New York Daily News
    It tells you who you are. Where you come from. Where your bloodline is,Sharpton said. "When you know directly your great-grandfather was a slave - owned by the Thurmonds. Your grandfather was a turpentine worker. It kind of like makes you...
  • Brandi Carlile in Austin 360
    We've been playing some of these songs for years -- I wrote 'Turpentine' when I was a teenager,Carlile says. "T Bone helped us hear these songs through fresh ears and gave the whole album a great energy."

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