The shells were a source of powdered lime used when cooking maize.

I saw the other eye cloud as though someone had overblown the lens with powdered lime.

Trotter could see powdered lime under his nails.

Also they are much larger, and surrounded by a verandah about six feet wide, beautifully paved with powdered lime trodden hard.

The Chamula carnival versions, according to local anthropologists, are deliberately made with powdered lime and undercooked beans.

On shore, bedraggled, hungry villagers greeted us with betel nut, leaves and powdered lime to chew.

Bertrano waved his hands at a group of workmen shovelling white powdered lime into a pile beside the half-raised bell tower.

With the British ammunition running low, Sharpe's men dump powdered lime from the walls, blinding their foes as they enter the castle.

Skin color (light red): fine powdered lime spar colored with red chalk (iron oxide)

Thereupon a girl came forward from behind the hut, bearing a jar filled with powdered lime, which she scattered over the red mark, blotting it from sight.

"Betel nut," the boy informs me, opening his palm to reveal a fibrous nut, a fresh green leaf and a cellophane pouch of powdered lime.

There are moose-and-caribou burritos for dinner, and Yukon margaritas (two parts good tequila, one part powdered lime Gatorade and a handful of snow).

The Kurtachi of the Solomon Islands mixed placenta into the mother's supply of powdered lime for chewing with the areca nut.

The immaculately manicured playing field was a green jewel, broken only by white stripes of the traditional powdered lime and the bare, rich brown earth of the base lines.

In the ensuing Battle of Dover, Eustace wrought havoc among his former allies, until the English blinded the French with powdered lime.

Then we make a mix of powdered lime and sand and other things into a thick paste, and apply it upon inner and outer walls to make them waterproof.

The walls were painted with powdered lime in water, and one of the local men poured ox-blood into the mix so that the walls were the colour of a summer sky at sunset.

In quelling a peasant revolt near Guiyang in 178 CE, the imperial Han forces had horse-drawn chariots carrying bellows that were used to pump powdered lime (calcium oxide) at the rebels, who were dispersed.

The Federal agency is also working with Minnesota officials to treat a lake there with lime and with New York on treating a wild watershed in the Adirondacks by using aircraft to dump powdered lime on the forest floor, he said.

The stews of either lamb or chicken are uniformly well prepared and taste of India in one bite and the Middle East the next with Mr. Singh's liberal use of spices that include dill, dried powdered lime, fresh limes and sumac.