cobbler's wax
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I was once told that the surest aid to the writing of a book was a piece of cobbler's wax on my chair.
From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony
He did not put his finger into its mouth, because his finger was black and sticky with cobbler's wax.
From Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls by Smith, Elva S.
A box of tacks, some cobbler's wax, Some gum and glycerine-O!
From The Magic Pudding by Lindsay, Norman
I'll bet you that threepenny ball of string and the cobbler's wax you were bothering about yesterday.'
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
The elbow, so often jerked, at last took a voluntary jerk from the shoulder, and Alec Bolt lay prostrate, with his right eye full of cobbler's wax.
From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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