turps

Put a bit of the turps in and they're alright.

The smell of turps was still very strong on it.

Buster did not like the smell of the turps at all.

But there was still a distinct smell of turps somewhere.

Turps was used to get paint off that cat's tail.

"Let's go to the shed and see if we can find any turps there," said Fatty.

Strictly speaking I should have taken it from here to where to get rid of the turps?

The one which you will have come across when we were doing lino printing was turps.

The tow was dipped in the turps, soaking it up.

"Well, we could go and hunt about next door to find where the bottle of turps is kept or something like that," said Bets.

So they all began to hunt hard in the two sheds, but there was no turps to be found anywhere.

"It's quite clear that this paint and the turps are connected in some way.

The other clue was the smell of turps in the cat-house.

I had to use turps as well as water.

"Let's think about the smell of turps on that cat's tail."

Once most of it has been removed, put the paint brush back in clean turps for about half an hour, and repeat.

"One of the frogmen found an empty turps container in there," he said.

Picking up a rag she began to scrub at her fingertips with some turps.

"Miss Harmer, do you use turps to clean out the cages at all?"

Australian slang for alcoholic beverages, as in "on the turps"

"And a strong whiff of turps," the visitor decided.

Everything seems to be repeating itself, doesn't it - the whistle on the floor - the smell of turps.

Perhaps Miss Harmer uses turps to clean out the cage.

The faint smell of turps still hung there.