| 单词 | calico |
| 例句 | Often, he dressed himself quite handsomely—full turban, beaded velvet vest, calico shirt of fine red cloth, a bandolier bag, earrings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z One very hot morning in July, we were down on north beach where Timothy had found a patch of calico scallops not too far offshore. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma chose two patterns of calico to make shirts for Pa, and a piece of brown denim to make him a jumper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat with her legs straight out in front of her, holding the red calico skirt in both hands, pulled tight around her legs like trousers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z These Jethro was to trade for calico and thread for Jenny—and mittens for himself, if there was change due him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes followed the leather tree trunks up and the leather turnt to blue jeans, then the blue jeans turnt into a calico shirt stretched ’crost the wide back of a giant man. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, Lyddie spent a dollar on a light summer work dress as her spring calico proved unbearable. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “There aren’t any male calico cats. What the hell kind of name is Edgar anyhow?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Take those curtains,” McGarrity said, waving a thick hand at the half curtains made of yellow calico with a red rose design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Preston surges to her feet, a mountain of calicos and lace. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Bob froze just in time, the point of his spear hovering an inch above the head of a tiny calico kitten. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She went to a closet contrived of a calico curtain hung across a corner of the room and got the felt hat she had worn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She was no more than twelve or thirteen, dressed in rough calico with ill-fitting boots. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The blouse was decorated at chest-level with a calico applique in the shape of a strawberry. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He had just brought some calico scallops ashore when we heard the rifle shot. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Meaghan was talking about getting a kitten and was trying to decide between a calico and a tabby. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa got enough calico to make Ma a new apron. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “But calico loaves are equally delicious. Try a piece.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As it turned out, Mistress Cutler provided her with a store- bought calico gown. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then she rolled the sleeves of her flowered calico dress above her elbows, and she knelt by the tubs. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I held up a blue calico and a green paisley. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After several biscuits, I brought out the slim packet wrapped in muslin and tied with a strip of calico. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He wanted no conversation, no witness, only to listen and perhaps to see the three of them, the source of that music that made him think of fields and wild turkey and calico. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray-haired woman sits on a brown chair, perfectly erect, hemming a calico skirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She looked up and saw a calico streak fly past, tail straight back like an arrow. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Not silk or velvet, just a simple calico dress, a dress that would have immediately revealed that she was a woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A packet wrapped in brown paper and tied with a bit of calico proved to hold girlish bits of fabric. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Leave that lady and home you go. Opposite the gent with a do-si-do. Jump right up and never come down. Now swing that calico round and round.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I carefully lifted Daisy Mae, my little calico cat, out of the crook of my arm and placed her at the foot of the bed and got up and opened my window. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One fair evening as soon as supper was done, she dressed in her calico, which was nicer than her light summer cotton, put on her bonnet and good boots, and went out on the street. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She took another section of quilt and stripped the batting off, then ripped the yellow calico into strips and dunked them into the plaster. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The colored girl wore a dress made of calico, old-fashioned and ugly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Daisy Mae was a pretty cat, a fluffy calico, and was special to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She squeezes my hand with both of hers, which are rough from cutting calico and canvas all day. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She pulled off the calico dress and put on the tight homespun, but it was like laying off a great burden. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Grandma’s dress was beautiful, too; a dark blue calico with autumn-colored leaves scattered over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep herself distracted, she watched Small Bob the kitten pacing across Bob’s shoulders and purring, occasionally turning into a glowing kitty skeleton and then back to a calico fuzz-ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The woman, dressed in a simple green calico dress and a bonnet to match, was standing in front of the house and waving to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Discarded shreds of unidentifiable stuffs were sewed patch on patch, including some black beaded velvets and bright calicos. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She done out a tub of clothes on Monday, but she starched ’em afore they was wrenched, and blued a pink calico dress till I thought I should a died a laughin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They dressed her up in a calico apron, a gray wig, and granny glasses to make her look like an old lady. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, drool runs down her chin and the front of her calico dress. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We couldn’t take Momma’s shells, nor Ruth’s baby doll made of flannel bits and calico, nor the wooden bowl Poppa made for me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For Mama, a precious dress length of calico cloth, deep red with blue and pink flower sprigs all over it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Someone who obviously didn't know her too well had given my mother a cheerful stuffed bear with a calico heart stitched to its chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And so different from them, besides, like the calico lobsters that turned up in traps very rarely and always with great to-do. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z All along one side of it were shelves full of colored prints and calicos. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of calico kittens reside across the street. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The other women had on percale and calico with here and there a headrag among the older ones. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He had brought candy for Laura and Mary, and two pieces of pretty calico to make them each a dress. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma had calico for a dress, too; it was brown, with a big, feathery white pattern all over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s cheerful—yellow and blue and peach and pink calico, with off-white triangles in the middle of each square. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “And Chester’s work shirt, and that calico I gave you.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Every year, the children watched to see that coat emerge—big and shaggy and always different, sewed with new furs, patched with discarded calicos, even velvets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z We talk about it at dinner: “A lady bought ten and a half yards of a beautiful blue calico, and I saved the extra half yard for you,” she’ll say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But once there she remembered that in the morning she would need a fresh gown from the trunks to replace the soot-stained calico. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He bought Pinch some calico trim for a pair of makazins, and a piece of velvet cloth for Angeline to use as she wished. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I stare at the lovely calico dress in awe, fingers grazing the fine blue-patterned weave. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The storekeeper took down bolts and bolts of beautiful calicos and spread them out for Ma to finger and look at and price. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Her needle made little clicking sounds against her thimble and then the thread went softly, swish! through the pretty calico that Pa had traded furs for. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a shiny gray wig, wire-rimmed glasses, and a calico apron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The calico slipped out of its knot; I pushed back the layers of muslin and uncovered a rainbow of patches—ticking and shirt cloth, gingham and calico, in faded blues and greens and yellows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He purred seismically and arched his back, turning skeletal then back to calico. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She’s got a calico cat that sometimes lives with them—it comes and goes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She pulls out a modest dress of calico, similar to mine but the full length that real ladies wear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruby’s dress was wine-colored calico, covered all over with a feathery pattern in lighter wine color. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things—powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while Dilsey emerged, again in the faded calico dress, and went to the kitchen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A tiny woman wearing a green calico skirt, a nut-brown bodice, and a dingy shift stood in the open door to the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She had little red flannel stockings and little black cloth gaiters for shoes, and her dress was pretty pink and blue calico. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked, as he commanded: Mama Mwanza with her disfigured legs and her small, noble head both wrapped in bright yellow calico. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She unpinned the little calico bag from her waistband. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiona gave the girls two simple dresses, one of blue calico and the other of brown flannel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Scandalized to see Kit wearing out her finery with scrubbing and cooking, Rachel and Mercy had made her a calico dress exactly the same as Judith’s. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “And then came a shriek like calico ripping — comical but also alarming. ‘How dare you pontificate to me about Leger!’ he yelled. John Richardson, critic and Picasso biographer, dies at 95 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s half calico and half plastic, so it has both a rawness and a sheen. Fashion Honors Zaha Hadid With ‘Extraordinary Process’ Exhibition 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z She wakes up, as she always has, around 4 a.m., beside her calico Persian cat, Empress Tang. Martha Stewart, Blissed Out on CBD, Is Doing Just Fine 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z There was a little calico cat that hung around the shop then. Farewell, BookCourt: You Showed What a Bookstore Can Do 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z One such tale involved the best friends Charlie Chunk and Sophia—the former a large, mild-mannered black-and-white cat and the latter a gentle, blind calico. The Storybook Pleasures of Beth Stern’s Cat Foster Home 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z She tells Batman she likes strays, and there's a cute, brief moment of a calico placed in a motorcycle saddlebag. It’s hard to be Catwoman: a beloved, problematic character 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But with temperatures already dipping to 40, how will the U.P.G., whose look centers on calico and gingham, acclimate? How Does the Urban Prairie Girl Do Winter? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Mitchell made some drawings of their dining room: the view from the window, a basket of apples, flowers in a glass vase, her calico cat lounging on a pillow. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “He talks about being sold to his first owner for four barrels of rum and a piece of calico,” Ms. Ryan said, pausing to gather herself. Familial Ties to Slavery, Bound by Vintage First-Person Accounts 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Dr Michaela Quinn – might shorten it to Mike to ram the point home – who will fight disease, racism, sexism, poverty, rattlesnake bites, while wearing a variety of bonnets and calico aprons. Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman 2011-02-22T08:00:04Z Ms. Delf loved the 1940s-style floral prints that were ubiquitous at Forever 21 down the street: A calico print top she would have “totally bought if they had it my size.” Teenage Girls? Back-to-School Look Is Back to the Demure 2011-09-14T23:17:15Z Laura Ashley garments were made of natural textiles, often cotton, like calico and corduroy, along with wool, silk, velvet or lace. The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Another vault piece, a black bustier dress with calico ruffles, got whoops from the crowd, perhaps still giddy from the flowing pre-show champagne. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z The slaves stand around the Louisiana plantation house wearing tattered calico and head scarves. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z Indeed, the recent resort collections featured more calico than an alley of cats, and a chic Elaine specter hovered over lines as diverse as Prada and Rebecca Taylor, each with a multitude of prim prints. The Elaine Benes Look Re-appears as New York Style 2010-08-18T20:40:00Z The show opened with all-white lace outfits — inspired by first seeing the ballet costumes in storage covered in white calico. Special Report: Ballet Russes Takes a Bow 2010-09-21T10:50:00Z Recently, a senior foster, a calico named Grandma Marge, was adopted out to a family of cat lovers but died soon after, her body failing under the strain of years of neglect. The Storybook Pleasures of Beth Stern’s Cat Foster Home 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Inexpensive calico bloomers in one work conjure slave life; richer fabrics give the embracing couple in the show’s first painting a foreign mien, as if they are a king and queen in Africa. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The artist cuts the letters from calico and sews them onto antique quilts, making the already dated language harder to read. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z His loyal readers will cotton to the idea — calico to it! — that the future lies in the fun, and thus that the future is fun. Steven Johnson on How Play Shaped the World 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Annie was wearing a long green calico dress and white apron. Journeys: Trading Tiaras for Calico on the Prairie 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z Early in this collection, in the poem “Grand Mal Seizure,” a woman describes the calico and lace dresses she sews before they are taken away from her. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Brown’s friend Andrew, who lives in Australia, contributed a recipe for traditional calico Christmas Pudding, which is usually cooked in a cloth. For Paradise fire survivors, a stranger’s handwritten recipe scrapbook offers a chance to rebuild 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A strapping girl of 15, in the customary sunbonnet and calico dress, asked me if I 'used tobacco' – meaning did I chew it. Twain's smoking diaries 2010-07-06T21:15:00Z Edsel, the calico cat, sprawled across a reporter’s notebook, knocking the pen out of the way, and began to purr amiably. Bringing Home Some ‘Hairy Joie de Vivre,’ and Taking Notes 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Or how about pink faux Doc Martens and a calico dress? The Daughter Dress Code 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “You had this symbolism of one side with the pretty white doll dressed in calico, and when you turned it upside down, the Black doll in tatters,” Mr. Potts said. Diversity: A Movement, Not a Moment 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Fine calico and satin, stuffed with sawdust to look like a hacked-off limb, is embroidered with beads and entomology pins. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-01T23:06:18Z In the process, Cole picked up an education, and learned engraving as a print shop apprentice, initially designing patterns for calico fabrics, later making prints of well-known paintings. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The Lavia-Garcias’ boutique plant shop offers an assortment of succulents and other plants such as fiddle leaf, pathos, peperomia and calico kitten crassula sourced from local nurseries. Food and love brought them together. Now they’re all about selling plants in L.A. 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Bingo: They were ruddy turnstones, sandpipers whose tricolor markings are sometimes compared to those of a calico cat. For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Her calico frock, worn to a stiffness, catches the wind, making her hands like blurred wings. Six poems that celebrate magic acts of living 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Sora, our shy calico, also a rescue, grew even more reclusive. 'Tiny acts of grace': The fine art of kitten fostering 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Once, her mom texted her a picture of the two cats Catherine grew up with, a tabby and a calico that lived with her mom. ‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Sophomore Year in a Pandemic 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Two kinds that are even more rare than calico ones are split lobsters — with different colors, split right down the middle — and albino lobsters, she said. A rare calico lobster was rescued from a Red Lobster. It’s now headed to a Virginia exhibit. 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Ms. McClintock’s aesthetic changed over the years, from the flowing calico prairie dresses of the 1970s to the taffeta minis favored by later generations. Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z McClintock’s aesthetic changed over the years, from the flowing calico prairie dresses of the 1970s to the taffeta minis favored by later generations. Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Santa Barbara County says the calico named Patches was brought in as a stray last month and a microchip scan revealed her identity. Missing cat turns up 3 years after California disaster 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z This year, more than 1,000 players took part, wearing their calico cleats during Week 13 games to raise awareness and funds for various causes. ‘My Cause My Cleats’ campaign has taken a foothold in NFL 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z But instead of being butter-poached and served alongside cheddar biscuits, the calico lobster is headed to an exhibit in Virginia. A rare calico lobster was rescued from a Red Lobster. It’s now headed to a Virginia exhibit. 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z We also have a beauty queen of a calico kitty adopted from the same shelter. Column: Pets make great coronavirus companions. And scammers know it 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z “That’s why Gunne Sax was so important in those days. It was a stamp for them. They used to wear them in the parks, getting married, the long calico dresses, barefoot and all.” Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z He would roast a whole hog for friends on weekends or make calico beans and pecan pies for enormous family gatherings. 'He was my big, strong brother': Inside one Iowa family's anguish amid a rise in farmer suicides 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z The three-time Oscar winner has spent the last fortnight persuading celebrities to sign a calico suit she plans to auction for charity. Oscars 2020: Fur flies over Cats effects jibe 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z She and her husband, Bob, had spent the day on the water, cooked a calico bass she had caught, and gone to bed. Dozens were trapped below deck in California boat fire 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z They cooked a calico bass Shirley had caught and went to bed. Final hours on the Conception: Diving, birthday parties, then horrific fire 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z It was a fraction the size of the Zeng family house, but it was cozy and immaculate with wall-to-wall carpeting, shelves of books, most of them Christian, and a calico cat sprawled underfoot. One is Chinese. One is American. How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office says members of the San Jose Fire Department lifted the heavy metal grating on the drain and a deputy jumped down to rescue the orange and white calico. 6-week-old kitten rescued from Cupertino storm drain 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z One of their current fosters is a calico named Chloe, who, Pullo said, was the alpha female of the current group. Connecticut’s first cat cafe has adoption mission, cat yoga 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The sweet little calico arrived three days later. ‘It Was a Cold, Drizzly Sunday Morning in 1973, and I Was at the Jon Vie Bakery’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “And then came a shriek like calico ripping - comical but also alarming. ‘How dare you pontificate to me about Leger!’ he yelled. John Richardson, critic and Picasso biographer, dies at 95 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The life of a rare calico lobster was spared last month when a seafood market owner in Maryland thought it was "special" — but it was much more special than they thought. Rare calico lobster found at Maryland market, donated to aquarium 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Ocean City Seafood of Silver Spring, Maryland, was unloading a shipment from Maine last month when the owner found the rare “calico” lobster. Maryland seafood business saves rare lobster received 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The University of Maine's Lobster Institute estimated the odds of finding a calico lobster are 1 in 30 million. Hunting and fishing: The craziest catches and kills of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z After the hymn, Humphreys, the pastor, wearing a sports jacket and calico horn-rimmed glasses, drew on his new book, “Seeing Jesus in East Harlem,” to deliver a sermon about Jesus’ incarnation on earth. Evangelicals of Color Fight Back Against the Religious Right 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The odds were definitely against a Maine fisherman, who recently pulled a calico lobster from the sea in what some would call the catch of a lifetime. Maine fisherman reels in rare calico lobster, a ‘1 in 30 million’ find 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The lobster, discovered by the owner of Ocean City Seafood in East Silver Spring on Dec. 21, is a calico. Rare calico lobster found at Maryland market, donated to aquarium 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The University of Maine’s Lobster Institute says calico lobsters occur about once in every 30 million lobsters. Maryland seafood business saves rare lobster received 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z In the cat chat room, I asked people what kinds of songs they sang to their pets, revealing that my calico happens to have a dinnertime tune. Reddit added chat rooms, and they’re about what you’d expect 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The ginger and white female was taken in by Josh Flanagan from Fenland Animal Rescue while vets continued to hunt for the calico kitty's owner. Van stowaway cat reunited with owner 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The University of Maine’s Lobster Institute estimated the odds of finding a calico lobster, named for its mottled orange and black shell, are one in 30 million. Maine fisherman reels in rare calico lobster, a ‘1 in 30 million’ find 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Raw materials added to this - such as calico, dry cotton, upholstery velvet, distressed tweeds and denim. Grown-up Paris Jackson hits her namesake city for Givenchy 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The turkey finally arrives and your grandma’s beloved calico, Mr. Mittens, leaps on the table. The Reliable Source’s Thanksgiving Talking Points 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The figures will be covered in an unbleached woven museum cloth called calico. The Art of Vulgarity 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Fish vary by season but can include white sea bass, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail, rockfish, calico bass, halibut and dorado. Catch your own seafood on these fishing charters 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z A domestic shorthair calico was found dead outside near its residence. D.C. Animal Watch 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Her two calico dresses are with her for sure. At D.C. gala, Laila Lalami, Elizabeth Nunez and Claudia Rankine honored 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z People post selfies with their strawberry daiquiris and their calico kittens, with strangers and friends, with and without clothes. Selfies in Voting Booths Raise Legal Questions on Speech and Secrecy 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “Country bumpkin, little/no makeup, calico print dresses & boots” 3 Perfect Ways to Ruin Your Brand 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Fish vary by season but can include yellowtail, white sea bass, calico bass, barracuda, sheephead and halibut. Catch your own seafood on these fishing charters 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Watch: A marine biologist displays a calico lobster caught in Hampton, New Hampshire. Half-Orange, Half-Brown Lobster Found—How Rare Is It? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Nicknamed after his trademark colourful calico clothing, Rackham is chiefly remembered for the design of his Jolly Roger flag, a skull with crossed swords, and for having two female crew, Bonny and Mary Read. Lost novel of Flashman Papers creator to be published for first time 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Maryland is also the only state other than Maine with an official cat—the calico. 'Official State Dog' Decisions Divide Utah and Maine 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Sometimes called calico or pinto deer, they can be mostly white with darkish splotches. Woman launches project to protect Va.’s white deer 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z When she translates her designs into black embroideries on white calico, the magnified scale is even more heroic. Tracey Emin: The Last Great Adventure is You review – a lesson in how to be a real artist 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z They are, the cliche goes, old, gray-haired ladies who sit stitching calico scraps into traditional designs. Quilters in Fairfax push the fabric envelope with creative, inspired designs Josiah Beringer found the calico lobster in one of his traps on July 23 in the mouth of New Hampshire's Hampton Harbor. Man finds calico lobster, gives it to aquarium 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Originally this word meant to be decorated or covered with chintz, a calico print from India, or suggestive of a pattern in chintz. How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Terms such as "calico", "chintz" and "gingham" had already by then "effected a lodgement in English warehouses and shops, and were lying in wait for entrance into English literature". Thirty words English got from India 2012-07-11T23:36:35Z Late 12th century | Temple Mills built. 17th/18th century | A calico printer and porcelain factory were established, the beginning of the area as an industrial center. 2012 London Olympics Blog: Know That Venue: The Aquatics Centre 2012-06-07T19:09:25Z Muslins, being open in character, should have larger patterns than calicoes, which are closer in texture, or the pattern will be indistinct in the one case or coarse in the other. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Then all sorts of things that seemed to be English to the backbone or last ounce of metal—scissors, books, and calico curtains—kept up a fire of conversation. Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z A very strong kind of cotton cloth is woven, also calico and woollen goods. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z One of the women traded a calico apron for green peas, which were regarded as a great treat and much enjoyed. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Margaret was dressed, as formerly, in a plain blue calico dress. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Besides these strips, cut some soft white calico into strips 3 cm. in width. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z But some day there would rise another Buonaparte and they would find Cobden with his calico millennium a poor stay against starvation, his lean and flashy songs a poor substitute for wheat. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Dogs will worry these sores, and must be prevented from doing so by having the foot encased in a sock made of strong washed calico, tied round the leg with tape. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z Not all the cabins were “papered,” but this one was made quite neat by means of newspapers pasted on the walls, the finishing touch being a border of nothing more expensive than blue calico. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The white mass advanced and retreated several times, and finally settled before the aperture and opened in the middle, when a female face was distinctly to be seen above the black calico. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Cloth is more durable than paper, calico being mostly used. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z The cotton is then carded and ready to be converted into calico, an employment that gives food to many thousands of people. The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Lorgnettes, Opera-hoods, and white kids are not exhibited here in such profusion as in some other places of amusement; on the contrary, green spectacles, sun-bonnets, and calico dresses are rather in the ascendant. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z These legs and feet and his arms were bare; the rest of his small, plump person was clad in a little jacket and very short breeches of pink calico. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z At the end of the seventh month he came to a lake as broad as from Ujiji to Zanzibar, and on its shores was white sand, white like bleached calico. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z In small shops headbands are made to this day of striped calico, which is cut into strips of 2 cm. wide right across the pattern, and one edge is pasted round a thin cord. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z A wreath, of crushed red calico roses from somebody's last summer's hat, some pearl beads, the property of cook, and a blue heart out of a cracker—saved since Christmas. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Its long, white flower-spikes, sprinkled rather regularly over the green mound of foliage, are very suggestive of a neat calico print. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It was made of blue calico and worked on it in strands of yellow rope were the words: We’ll have the real banner this year! Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z A little powder, a little whiskey, cheap calico, some blankets—a few things of that kind. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z The bride wore a calico dress and apron. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z What piles of silks and shawls, cottons and calicoes! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z But when, twenty minutes later, he issued forth a second time, he was attired in a coat of thin but shining black, with butternut trousers and a high pink calico vest. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z Many of these people wore coloured calico shirts, and all used the Indian leather leggins, which come down to the shoes, and are ornamented at the ankles with leather fringes. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z A little red calico, a few sombreros and some spurs. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Now they were clean, and looked picturesque in their bright calico clothes. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z A tall woman in a blue calico dress and a brown gingham sunbonnet was standing there. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z At that moment a figure bobbed up among the beanpoles in the garden, and the girls saw that it was a little woman in a calico sunbonnet. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z If corn be worth 25 cents in Iowa, and in Liverpool $1, for which 20 ells of calico are brought back, the Iowa farmer receives of this quantity about 4 ells. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z It measures cloth worth fifty dollars a yard precisely as it does calico worth four cents. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Our calico skirts and sacks made a creditable appearance. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The India ships bring home tea, coffee, silks both raw and manufactured, cottons, muslins, calicoes, drugs, China-ware, rice, sago, saltpetre, pepper, indigo, &c &c. City Scenes or a peep into London 2012-01-20T03:00:10.690Z A good lining also is essential; coarse calico stitched round the inside of the basket is the best. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Soon they came to Hank Mack's general store, where you could buy a plow or a yard of red calico, a stick of candy or some gunpowder, a loaf of bread or a salt mackerel. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z And after stockings come garments, ending with the pink calico dress apportioned to the day, and succeeding garments come buttons. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z Two calico bags, one big and one little, contained our baggage for the journey. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The servants who came with the message wore a red calico kaftan to the ground, with a red calico hood that looked like a domino. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Outside, the bitter wind lashed her calico skirt about her slim ankles, and cut like a knife. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The sole covering was a piece of gay-coloured calico tolerably wide, which they wore around their loins. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z At three Aunt Cordelia's own Emmy Lou, the pink calico upon her person and a straw hat upon her head, turned the knob of the front door. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z The dress of these people is remarkably simple, and usually consists only of a piece of coloured linen cloth or calico, which, worn short like a woman's petticoat, is thrown single-fold round the loins. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z There are over 10,000,000 purchasers of calico in Korea, and it has become quite an interesting commercial question whether Japan's Osaka or England's Manchester will secure the future market. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z He passed tilting fields where red and blue calico dresses flashed as entire families worked with hoes, and roadside habitations of logs where raggedy children fled inside to gaze timidly around the corners of door-jambs. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z In addition to this, most of them wore some piece of European clothing; drawers, old caps, but most commonly a sort of jacket without sleeves made of calico, which only covered the back and chest. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Her plaits are tied with calico, and her face behind its eagerness is thin. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z Behind the pieces of hummock each actor learned his part, and by means of calico they transformed themselves into female characters, as occasion required. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The only attempt at comfort was a small calico rug at the bottom of the cart, but this was a poor protection against the extremely hard wood of Manchuria. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Then a smile stole across her face as she sat there in the moonlight, and she drew from the collar of her calico dress a small medal on a string. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The ladies of the island stain white calico with turmeric, yellow being apparently the favourite colour of the country. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Her plaits were tied with bits of calico and there was a smudge on her wrist; under her arm was a paper bag and in her hand a bucket. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z The paper-machine which gave long rolls of paper enabled hangings to be printed by cylinder, as calico is printed. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z His rosy, contented face, white calico cook's cap, of which he was very proud, and his clean apron, were as charms to his supporters,—the roughs and gutter children. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The girl's eyes were lifted with an amazed expression from the calico dress upon which she was working, and her face swiftly softened. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z The equivalents as laid down by Captain Cheyne are as follows:— 12 hens = 24 sticks of negro-head tobacco, or 4 ells of calico. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Dress patterns in lawn and calico are frequently imported. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z The Indian, it is true, no longer sends us his calicoes and his coloured stuffs; we make them ourselves. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The back of the hood was curtained with a piece of calico thick enough to keep out the sun. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z She was straight and lithe, and under the blue calico dress that was turned down at her neck, her throat was brown with a tan through which a petal-like color glowed. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z On high days the ladies wear red clothes hemmed with white calico. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z She seemed strangely agitated, her eyelids swelled, her breast heaved beneath the calico bodice all streaked with flour and soot. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z These stuffs bore their Indian names of calicoes and muslins; and, whether bleached or dyed, were equally valued as amongst the most useful and ornamental articles of European dress. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The Venetian masts that were to have supported ropes of Chinese lanterns had also been left standing, some of them bare of decoration, others gaudy with red and white twists of calico. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z She had come exhausted and tired because she had come on foot, and her mean calico dress had been briar-torn, and her feet, which were bare, had been bruised. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z They bring for barter fine Chinese tobacco, calico, knives, axes, hatchets, cutlasses, clothes, and black round hats. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z This line is "marked" at 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, and 20 fathoms by distinctive strips of calico, bunting, leather, &c. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z We still, received the calicoes and printed cottons from India. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The priest went through his harmless little functions at the altar with what seemed to be a calico Dalmatique on his back, but we have no doubt that it was a brocade of creditable thickness. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z She stood over him, slender, and simply garbed in a blue calico dress and a blue calico sun-bonnet. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z She breathes upon the wild convolvulus that trails among the grass, and it twists up its silken blossoms till they look like little wisps of calico, pink and white. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, &c. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z Nearly twenty years after Arkwright had begun to spin by machinery, that is in 1786, the price of a particular sort of cotton-yarn much used in the manufacture of calico was thirty-eight shillings a pound. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z I had repose within my doors, and amused myself with reading, writing and various handiwork, and began to make and embroider my shroud, for which I had bought calico, white taffeta, and thread. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z Then he reached his hand around to his neck, and they saw that he bore, pinned to his belt, a package wrapped in the red calico of which tao breeches are fashioned. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z In some places their frequency reminded me of the recurrence of the pattern on a calico or a wall paper. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z If it is demonstrated thus that the body is eternal and will rise again, it is equally certain that its garments, whether cloth, linen, or calico, will be resuscitated also! Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z One of these doors opened; a woman in a faded calico dress looked her over, the glance including the traveling-bag; then picked up a letter from the hall-floor, and closed it again. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z This was made of the rough, unbleached calico called forfar, which can be obtained in six-feet widths, and it was continued round for about two feet, on each side, on to the floor. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z She looked on as one may watch a stage from a box, and her fingers clutched at her calico dress, as she stood in an agony of suspense. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z This individual wore white cotton drawers under a long calico night shirt of a faded lilac pattern, which was bound about his waist with a strip of yellow calico. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z But in all coast tribes purchase and sale are effected by foreign-made calico prints, pottery, cutlery, guns, powder, rum, and a great variety of other goods. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The bed was surrounded with calico curtains, always very white; there were also two little curtains of the same material at the window, taking the place of one large one. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Even if the fabric is brocade, it has a look of calico. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z The alum is added to the hot liquors, and the temperature raised to 100�; it is then allowed to settle, and the surface scum removed by filtering through coarse calico or fine wire filters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z We were ushered into a well-sized room, in which lay heaps of cotton under-clothing, and of calico dresses, most of them in the shape of sacks and skirts. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z There they deposit bits of wood, to which are attached scraps of calico, flowers, or beads; this is to propitiate Lesa. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Jean, who was fourteen, and tall for her age, wore one of her mother's calico wrappers tied in at the waist by the strings of the cook's biggest apron. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z In fact, what is it but woollen calico? The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Chloe was a calico cat, yellow, with patches of dark and white spots. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z The pretty mother now appeared in a loose gown of yellow calico, holding up her baby. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z She twisted a piece of her calico gown. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The privileged girls were never tired of examining the good woman's patchwork quilts, made many years ago of minute, quaint, old-fashioned scraps of calico. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z The natives, unlike their Portuguese masters, had to keep hard at it, with the result that by the time "knock-off" was announced and the Bantus, resuming their calico skirt-like garments, had trooped ashore, the S.S. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z When they came back, money was plenty to pay for powder and lead and calicos, and when that was exhausted they obtained their goods by exchanging for them venison and skins. Pioneer Day Exercises 2011-10-19T02:00:21.770Z I presently saw them put on their yashmacs, and draw over their calicoes a sort of cloak of black stuff, not unlike alpaca. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The boys and girls were naked, and I gave them each a strip of calico, much to their wonderment.... The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Chintz, chints, n. a highly glazed printed calico, with a pattern generally in several colours on a white or light-coloured ground. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The women wore a calico skirt, a white shirt with a bracelet at the elbow to hold the sleeves and a fichu on the head. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z "Minnie is making a doll's dress, and I have just finished some horrid white calico." Left to Ourselves or, John Headley's Promise. 2011-10-05T02:00:17.183Z The bey's wife wore a lilac calico; another wore pale green. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z This was emptied into a larger basket and weighed, and being found sufficient, each man was given a cupful of coarse salt, and to some of the head-men a fathom of calico.... The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z The wire of the two coils he separated with twine and calico. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Diggers of the stamp of Bullocky pitched bank-notes right and left, nor ever counted the change; or instead of change, lengths of calico or bars of soap were tossed across the counters. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z Now you will see what a show she will make at dinner in a dress, the cost of which would keep her whole family in comfortable calico gowns for two years. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z A tall member of the pacha's suite came into our little round house, dressed principally in a short, quilted sack of bright red calico. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Wilson had an uneasy glance on a group of women bending over some bolts of calico, one of whom was chewing a sample clipped from a piece to see if it would fade. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z She had a little calico cap on her head, with strings under her chin, an umbrella in one hand, and in the other a fan of coloured paper, with which she constantly fanned herself. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z One or two younger bucks have discarded their blankets for the day, and ride about in dingy calico shirts or old cavalry jackets. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z Here he comes, trudging along beside the porter; and I see he has got all the baggage safe, even the brown paper parcel and the calico bag. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z I next tried to get a croquis of a pretty little girl who played about, wearing a pink wadded sack over a gown and trousers of common flowered calico, buff and brown. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z And Wilson hurried away to a woman who sat in a chair holding a bolt of calico in her arms, as if it were her first-born child and the other women were open kidnappers. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z In a little while the mail department was as much a part of the "Ostable Grocery, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes and Fancy Goods Store" as the calico and dress goods counter. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z The portrait of Mary Stuart did not invite one to go in and buy an ell of calico; nor did Absalom, hung by the nape, indicate to one that he was passing a hairdresser's parlors. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z We had a pot-pie for dinner that day; and I happened to have on a new calico gown, a green ground with a yellow sprig in it. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z It left in view their muslin head-dresses, and calico trousers, gathered at the ankle, nothing more. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z We can make a piece of calico as stiff as a board by putting it under an hydraulic press. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Ah!" said Mrs. Sawney, "I sometimes wishes my 'usband would be content with calico linings to 'is trousers, like some folks I could name. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z She was as faded as her calico dress. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z No one will observe whether your gown is calico or silk, and whether your cap is muslin or lace. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z She was already dressed for the evening in a white calico wrapper; a plain, cambric cap, with no ornament but its frill, covered her hair. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z “Ye—ye—yes,” sobbed the little boy, rubbing his face very hard with the Beggar’s Petition in printed calico. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z A man with nothing but a dirty piece of calico around his body may all the same have a good lot of diamonds concealed. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z She superintended and sometimes cooked all the meals; fourteen people often sat down to dinner, and three courses were served, usually by hideous Hottentot girls, dressed in bright calico dresses, coloured beads, and ribbons. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z The doctor’s medical preparations are soon finished; he merely pockets a calico bandage and dossel of lint, and straps a tourniquet around his waist, then devotes his attention exclusively to his accoutrements. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z The last cholera victim of the Bonita, a woman, had worn a sarong of red and yellow calico. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z It was panelled in maple and oak, with a long settee at the foreward end upholstered in red velvet, the velvet protected by a calico cover. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z A girl in a gingham gown had dismounted from a calico pony and was climbing up to join us. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z At such times the stores wake up and put out their smartest calicoes and their yellowest saddles with which to tempt the wary Boer and Boeress. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Why, when your aunt Laura was your age, she had made a whole quilt of bits of calico not much larger than the palm of your hand. Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z He held in his hand a little square of red and yellow calico. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z One youth wore a thin white blouse and a pair of his sister's wide, calico knickers with needlework frills near the ankle, and white stockings. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Lkath and the dead man's brother, upon request, showed him where the red calico was found, and how the body lay by the water-hole. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z They met two Mindanao vessels laden with silks and calicoes; and near Manila they took some Spanish vessels, one of which had a cargo of rice. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z Twenty-four blue frocks and twenty-four red to be ready by the time the girls come at four o'clock, besides the old women's flannel and this unlimited supply of unbleached calico. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z In addition, several of them had deerskin coats, others calico coats, but the majority merely wore a buffalo robe over their bare shoulders, and nearly all were armed with rifles. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z For the galleon, besides jewels and bullion, contained spices, drugs, silks, calicoes, carpets and quilts, to the value of about �150,000. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z The girl was dressed in the deepest of Filipino mourning—black calico skirt, black alpaca tapis, or apron, and a camisa of thin barred black net, shiny and stiff with starch. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z He had bunches of green leaves at each ear; and, as ribbon failed, long strips of bright-coloured calico were torn up and tied about his mane, tail, and harness. The Pleasures of the Country Simple Stories for Young People 2011-08-10T02:00:18.760Z If there is a thing which ruffles my equanimity it is unbleached calico, it fluffs so, and makes one so messy. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z As she turned the corner, a lame child in a calico dress and torn hood staggered past her bent with the weight of a heavy basket. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Why, at that minute, sir, like a dream in the gray space below, I could see Jimmie Tool’s yellow head an’ fat white legs an’ calico dresses, jus’ as they used t’ be. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z I wore a calico dress trimmed with green taffeta. Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England 2011-08-08T02:00:19.693Z For our calico dresses, if ever so fortunate as to find one, we sometimes paid a hundred dollars, and for the spool of cotton that made it from ten to twenty dollars. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z "Yes," said Marjory, "these bales of goods are for my shivering widows," and she pointed to the red flannel and unbleached calico. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Her coarse calico dress, of deep red, was covered in front by a brown linen apron extending nearly to her bare feet. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z After the laboured imitations of Jefferies, Mr. Watson's 'Sylvan Folk' comes like a breath of sweet country air into the atmosphere of an emporium of stuffed birds and calico flowers. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z He sang in Gaelic as he drove his cart with its moth-eaten, calico horse,—songs that were now wildly sad, now wildly gay. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z The women among them were either draped in calico or picturesquely clothed in leather, and plentifully adorned with necklaces of seeds or shells. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z The minister described bad trade as a punishment from God, as though God had made the rascally merchants who took out shoddy calico and ruined the markets. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z There is a poor girl in a calico dress that seems to be alone; her face looks sad and she seems to be watching and waiting for someone. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z "At length," writes Caudle, "I fell asleep; and dreamt that the sky was turned into green calico, with whalebone ribs; that, in fact, the whole world turned round under a tremendous umbrella!" Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z About this time, both in England and America, machines had been devised for sewing lengths of calico and other cloths together, previous to bleaching, dyeing or printing. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Robert Peel, the founder of the family, developed the plan of printing calico, and his successors perfected it in a variety of ways. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Then he took snuff, and had a supernumerary calico handkerchief? McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z We pledged ourselves to wear homespun rather than buy any of the foreign calicoes and silks. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Bricks, candles, calico prints, glass, hides and skins, leather, paper, salt, soap, and other commodities of home manufacture and consumption were placed, with their respective industries, under excise surveillance and fine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Gold lace on my coat always made me feel as if I were a child tricked out in red and yellow calico with turkey feathers in my headgear to add to the gorgeousness. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z One day, when sketching a pattern on the back of a pewter dinner-plate, the idea occurred to him, that if colour were rubbed upon the design an impression might be printed off it upon calico. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z Trembling all over, she scampered on tiptoe back into the bedroom, and after a little she returned in her calico dress and bandana kerchief. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z She wore a white apron with a bib, calico over-sleeves, and had one pencil in her hand and another behind her right ear. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Personal property was valued by its relation to other property; eight yards of calico were worth so much wheat, corn, potash, cord-wood, or saw-logs. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Yellow calicoes should be washed in soap suds and not rinsed. The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner 2011-07-12T02:00:30.643Z The simple calico dress, with a dainty little check, fitted her perfectly. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z She wore a skirt and a loose jacket of white Russian calico, decorated with huge gay figures, and her dark hair was only half covered by a bandana of red and yellow. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z Their veils were off now but they still had an air of being shrouded in crêpe, although their dresses were made of black calico. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z Mrs. Longbow never bought a new calico without being agitated. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z She threw back the bedclothes and disclosed her ample person fully clothed in a purple calico dress. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z They obliged, holding floral calico dresses against their chests, gauging fit. | Commerce City, Colo.: Back to Nature, After a Detour Into the Unnatural 2011-07-09T23:31:38Z He's an Indian pinto to boot, a regular fool calico pony! Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z I remember when I fell in love the first time with a certain Lola, I thought, for example, that her dress was sacred, but it was calico. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z She knew that not only the calico, but herself, too, in connection with such a bold enterprise, must necessarily pass in review before all the women of the place. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z They had been independent and had not had to wait while Aunt Milly arrayed herself in all the glories of a brand new purple calico and bright plaid head handkerchief. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z The interior had white calico stretched over the ceiling and was whitewashed with lime. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z Just a few things that I thought would be suitable to wear up here, for teaching; but, do you know, I'd feel lots better if I had a dress like yours—a calico one. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z Again and again Markrete visited the store, purchasing brilliant hued calicoes, beads and blankets, and receiving little presents from the trader, who endeavored in this manner to win her regard. Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley 2011-07-01T02:00:16.500Z Some of the less ambitious were reduced to a mere bunch of calico. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z She had on a linen duster which had evidently been hastily donned over a calico house dress. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z At the approach of the feast a number of men and women together adorn it by rolling round it a piece of white calico and fringing it with red or blue cloth. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z She made a quick motion across her throat, and gurgled heinously, letting her blanket fall low upon her skinny, calico covered shoulders, revealing a long, gaunt throat and stiff wisps of black, unkempt hair. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z It was only very roughly bound up with some dirty calico, and he had evidently lost a good deal of blood. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z She has turned from her course to assist a paper manufacturer, her waters are invaluable to a calico printer also, and she may be seen in a bleaching ground. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Presently the pilot produced some sheets of paper and a buff calico envelope. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Several pieces of white calico and Turkey red cloth were kept in these houses for wrapping up the bones. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z I mean can we have a Ceremonial Meeting in blue calico and imagine it’s Ceremonial costumes?” The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z He was a big ugly fellow, dressed in a blue calico blouse, black trousers and wooden clogs. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z It was wrapped in white calico obtained from the trader, and beneath it was a mat. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z At the side of the wagon was a small “lean-to” of coarse calico. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z At that moment, with a whoop and a drumming of hoofs, a calico cow pony came racing along the trail toward the stalled car. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z She had nothing to wear but her faded old blue calico dress, but she had pinned a bunch of roses on the front of it to make herself look festive.” The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z But everywhere, from the lake, the mountain, and even from Hilcrest itself, looked out strange wan faces with hollow cheeks and mournful eyes; and everywhere fluttered the ragged skirts of a child’s pink calico dress. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z He sold everything, from flour to hob nails and from calico to mouse traps, and Ruth had found his shop in this respect exceedingly convenient. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Whose bed was she lying in, hung with red calico curtains? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Then the calico pony came to an abrupt halt, sliding along the ground with all four feet braced. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z She was dressed in a calico bodice and full skirt, her hair bunched into moist ringlets of its own making. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Close by one of the big-rimmed wheels lay a huddled little heap of soiled and ragged pink calico; but before Brandon could reach it, the heap stirred, and lifted itself. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z The young lady sorted out small garments from green calico boxes labelled For Firsts. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z As Mrs. Doggett neared the cabin, a fat old negress, wearing a faded black calico mourning-dress, and carrying a bundle of sticks, came out of the wood. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z But to-day, beyond this people dressed in blouses and calico, I saw one whose nobility was in striking contrast with all the surrounding triviality. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z He sported a ruffled doublet of red silk and had stuffed his dark calico breeches into bucket-top sea boots of fine Spanish leather. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Not the Maggie, the little brown-eyed girl in the pink calico dress, who fell down almost in front of our auto!” The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z I never could play with it with any comfort because I was afraid of soiling its splendid clothes, losing its earrings, or feeling myself and my calico and homespun abashed by its superior attire. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z At Mrs. Doggett's tentative venture, the red blood came in a flood in Miss Nancy's face, and spread from her faded brown calico collar to the roots of the unlovely hair on her high forehead. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z Before he stationed it in the train of this dance of death, he proposed to Lenette a substitute for it, the checked calico mourning-dress, in order to accustom her to the idea. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z And for that girl, who never wore anything but sixpenny calico if she could get it. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z A calico dress was not deemed unreasonable at seventy cents a yard. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z They have "stores" in which they offer for sale calico, of the big-figured, orange and red sort, surprisingly cheap. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Some new skirts, moreover, which might be of calico, but which your honour would, perhaps, prefer of silk, are wanted for the ballet in Il Trovatore next Monday. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z "Devil fly away with me, if that calico remains in this house!" said he. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Summer is just here; what, you need up there is some nice calico dresses; those will be just the thing. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z A woman’s calico gown does not cost so much as a man’s broadcloth coat, but her dress, the wardrobe through, costs just as much as his. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Poppy's nightgown of unbleached calico had a tight narrow neck-band that nearly strangled her when buttoned with a linen button the size of a small saucer. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z She went in, and was rejoiced to see the shelves at the back of the counter well furnished with glossy tiers of stuffs, and gay, neat printed linens and calicoes. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z Very well, then, keep your calico; keep this Lenten altar-cloth of yours to yourself. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z She got out her sewing; obviously, Mrs. Busby knew what she was about when she provided those calico dresses. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z The rough table was nicely decorated with folded squares of gorgeous calico. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Parson and Mrs. Freeman came in without ceremony; the parson with his hat and walking stick, Mrs. Freeman in a green calico hood and an old cloak. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Mrs. Mitchell brightened the lamp and began to match the squares of a calico "rising sun" quilt she was making as her Christmas present to the Methodist parsonage. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "Wouldn't it be better to pawn the checked calico?" Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z However, later in the day when Mrs. Busby came in after buying the calicos, the proposition was renewed. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z "I'll find something better tomorrow—some nice pieces of pink calico like my dress, maybe." The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Our clothes was muslin an' calico for de hot weather; an' den in winter us had linty cloth, part wool an' part cotton, homespun. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Mrs. Pore was a beautiful woman and it seemed strangely incongruous to see her in the country store measuring calico and what not. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z A Potato War with Women--and with Men--A Walk in December--Tinder for Jealousy--A War of Succession on the subject of a piece of checked calico--Rupture with Stiefel--Sad Evening Music. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z O for one of those calicos, lying at present cut and basted in her trunk. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z She was finishing the extra dress she had started for Annie, the red and white striped calico. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z He had nothing on him in the shape of clothing or wraps, with the exception of a thin calico shirt. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z "Only a tall, thin Indian woman in a purple calico gown." Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z Eleven hundred and fifty anthems are enough to prove that Genius has its private mercenary weaknesses as well as Trade, my boy, and that brains can be bought by the yard as well as calico. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z Dextrine is used in calico printing for thickening colours; for the preparation of gums, and for stiffening cloth. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The squaws were easily recognizable by their long calico dresses of blue or brown, gaily striped in red and yellow, and they all wore long strings of small beads, usually turquoise and crimson. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z So I went in style, I witnessed the closing ceremonies and Jim had enough to give every one in attendance, a blanket, or piece of money, or some gaudy calico, beads or other trinkets. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The women wore dark calico gowns with little shawls over their shoulders, and their couvre-chefs were bound closely to their heads. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z So quickly did the black horse swerve that the calico could not synchronize. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The piece of calico formed "the canopy" of Mrs. Dermody's tester bed. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z The returns that are injurious to our manufactures, or growth of our own country, are printed calicoes, chintz, wrought silks, stuffs, of herbs and barks, block-tin, sugar, cotton, arrack, copper, and indigo. A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before 2011-04-07T02:00:17.607Z He also purchased quite a quantity of calico and Indian trinkets. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Unfolding some bright calicoes, he called the little girl to him. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z The prices affixed to the articles were absurdly exorbitant; a needle cost a real, a worthless knife or a pound of iron a dollar, an ell of printed calico two or three dollars. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z There was a pretty, though homely Irish girl, named Kitty Kavanagh, brought before the magistrate on a charge of having stolen a small piece of coarse calico from a Mrs. Dermody. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z Their few wants are supplied by barter from friendly settled peoples, or in return for iron implements, calico, beads, tobacco, etc., they offer jungle produce, mainly gutta, indiarubber, camphor, dammar and ratans. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z On one of these islands, Whidby, I found quite a number of pure white, and also spotted or, to use the popular expression, calico deer. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The dolls are small bleached bones or bits of peeled pawpaw sticks, dressed in blouses made from a worn out sleeve of grandpa’s red undershirt and skirts from scraps of worn and faded calico. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z He wore a white hat, with broad brim and particularly shallow crown, and was dressed in a light yellow gingham frock, striped with black, and ample trousers of calico. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Her pink calico sun-bonnet, flaring toward the front, showed it lying in moist tendrils on her brow, and cast an unwonted roseate tint upon the clear, healthful pallor of her complexion. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z "V. R." was everywhere and in all sorts of materials, from cut glass and gold to red calico. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z I learned from him that the progeny of the buck in a great majority of cases was of the usual color—sometimes calico, but rarely pure white. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Damme, sir, when I speak to these French fellows about calico, they begin to talk about fraternity; which, as I take it, means eating frogs, for I don’t pretend to understand their outlandish gibberish.” Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Children in trade calico played with a listless air. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Her brown calico sun-bonnet, which she habitually wore, in doors and out, obscured her visage, except her chin and absorbed mouth, that now and then moved in unconscious sympathy with her work. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Indians in bright calico garments stood on the beach, awaiting the luggage of the guests. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z They are soft and adherent, and must be kept between layers of calico to prevent adhesion. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z White muslin was at the windows, white calico on the chairs—that was all; but there were roses, and jessamine, and flowers of all kinds, as in a garden. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z This manufacturing speed, this steeple-chase of printed calico and Paisley wear, is all very well while it is limited to the districts where it began. Nuts and Nutcrackers 2011-03-08T03:00:45.687Z Her pink calico sun-bonnet lay on the rock under her elbow. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Cut old boot tops into pieces the right size, cover with calico, and you have a holder that will not heat the hand. Cloud City Cook-Book 2011-03-08T03:00:40.033Z Having incorporated sulphur and other ingredients, the plastic mass is sheeted and run between layers of calico to prevent the superimposed sheets from adhering. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z I saw her little calico dress, her little brown bare feet, the ringlets of yellow hair hung about her cheeks. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Gipsy might have been seen flying about in calico long-shorts from morning till night, entering heart and soul into the excitement. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Old Maxfield sat nearest to the fire, in his grey suit, just as he appeared in his shop, except that the black calico sleeves had been removed from his coat. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z It was composed of strips of white calico, navy blue and Turkey red. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z When this is common in the lumber it is called "calico poplar." Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The "two yards fe bit" kind is calico print. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z Every man wore a patch of white calico on his back, so that the French gunners might know their own men, and not fire upon them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z He usually wore a suit of coarse grey clothes, with black calico sleeves tied on at the elbow. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z "Do you mean to say God troubles Himself about sugar and calico?" The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z Surrounded by mournful attendants, he reclined on an alga before a fierce fire, his right eye screened by a shade of blue calico, and his comely partner sobbing violently at his feet. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Dey have to pay fifty and seventy-five cents de yard for calico den. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z He was lifted up by his love for her; and her calico gown became a royal robe in his imagination. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z Those which I visited were working up the cotton and the wool of the country into calico and other stuffs, which are unfortunately coming into fashion among the lower classes, and ousting the old costume. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The women were clothed for the most part in dirty calico prints. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z “Having been kept bound in his house another week, I was taken two days’ journey with a large slave Caravan, and sold privately to the Nono Galla for a few ells of blue calico. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z She gave the usual contemptuous toss of her head in its gingham sunbonnet, and the accustomed excited swish of her starched calico skirt, as she passed Kitty Mills. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z For each child there was a portion of woollen cloth and calico. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Such was she who followed, or rather accompanied, the youth in the calico hunting shirt. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The kitchen looked very cheerful and neat, and Morrison was all ready with her spice-box, eggs, pie-dishes, and great yellow bowl full of strained pumpkin; likewise a big calico apron to tie over Helen's dress. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z A checked kerchief around his brows, and a kilt of dark blue calico about his loins, comprise his slender costume. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Consequently the tidy calico bag containing the onion-sets was banished to the kitchen for the winter, to become a source of secret uneasiness to Miss Judy the whole season through. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z "I'll find your thimble first," said Ben, getting down on his knees to lift the gay flowered calico curtain that hung from the counter-edge. Ben Pepper 2011-02-07T03:00:21.607Z They were about twenty in number, dressed in neat calico frocks, white aprons and capes, and fancy kerchiefs, tied in a mode peculiar to the negress, upon their heads. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z She wore a pink-and-white calico, and tied about her neck with a pink string was Willie Smith's drum, borrowed for the occasion. A Round Dozen 2011-02-07T03:00:26.887Z They bring blue calico, chintz, pepper, tobacco, copper, cutlery, and “fire water,” and receive in exchange slaves, ivory, spices, and gold, which latter is brought in large quantities from Douro. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Her calico sunbonnet was always worn far back on her head. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z We will suppose that A. Blank & Company, of Manchester, calico printers, send goods to Shanghai, which they hope to sell there for a total sum of, say, £1,000. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z A cheap calico made to fit the form accurately and easily, will give the wearer a more lady-like air than the richest silk which either wrinkles or is too tightly strained over the figure. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z To attribute the disappearance of the Indian to the overthrow of his industries by the competition of cheap calicoes and wooden nutmegs sounds more like jest than earnest. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Massive ear-rings of brass and copper were amongst the treasures, and the much-prized, though far from becoming coif of blue calico which forms the badge of the wedded wife, had not been forgotten. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Her sister was holding the calico bags, as usual; and then Miss Sophia's getting out of a chair and on her feet was always a matter of time and difficulty. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The industries of the town include the manufacture of chemicals, cloth, quilting, calico, cigars and agricultural implements, bleaching, dyeing, basket-making, carriage-building and trade in cattle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The mid-African wears brass rings and fancy calico because they are hard to get and expensive and therefore give distinction to their wearer. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Dressed in a bright calico dress, the woman sat under a shade tree skillfully cutting up the meat of a turtle and dropping it into a pan of cold water. Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z Nine-tenths were females, varying in age from six to thirteen years, and all were clad alike in dirty cotton smocks of Abyssinian manufacture, adorned in some instances with cuffs of blue calico. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z "That's what," assented Jeb Cotton, trying to quiet his little calico pony, which was dancing about, scenting the excitement in the air. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z For example, Wilde produced copper printing surfaces for calico printing-rollers and the like by immersing rotating iron cylinders as cathodes in a copper bath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z He stammered a bit, got confused, and finally said: "Well, Sir, it's—it's—its some calico!" Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Jem obeyed, and soon returning, brought with her a box filled with bits of calicoes, and various odds and ends, seated herself also, and proceeded to fashion what she was pleased to call "doll's clothes." The Hazeley Family 2011-01-24T03:00:16.447Z They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z She is dressed in red and black flannel, with calico blouse and cloth hood; tin bracelets are on her arms, and her breast bears an ornament like a dinner-plate, also of tin. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z "Horrid calico dresses and things like that—I should just hate them." Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z "Let's have a look at it," said I, and it was slowly unfolded and held up; it, or rather they, were not calico by any means, but the finest linen, with lace frills. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z In spite of being about fourteen years old, this child had on only a thin yellow calico frock, and it was late October. The Camp Fire Girls in After Years 2011-01-13T03:01:12.303Z A profound stillness succeeded; and after the bundles of calico had whispered one with another for a moment or two, they remained quiet, seemingly indisposed, just then at least, to molest us any farther. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Her lord and master wears a dandyish suit of white canton-flannel, fuzzy side out, a calico shirt, red necktie, and likewise a hood and tin dinner-plate. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z I. Calico Pie, The Little Birds fly Down to the calico tree, Their wings were blue, And they sang “Tilly-loo!” The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses 2011-01-12T03:00:33.643Z Materials: The second quarter of the large piece of calico; a two-inch square of calico for the gusset. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z In lieu of a sack we tied together the neck and sleeves of a calico wrapper, filled it with the tomatoes, then tied the bottom and balanced it astride the horse in front of me. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z "Injin want calico, for shirt"—said one of these worthies, significantly, to Orson, who at first affected not to hear him. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The costume is composed of simple materials, the trousers being of unbleached cotton, the shirt of calico, and the turban generally of some soft red cloth. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z Here and there some roll-collar waistcoat afforded a glimpse of a calico shirt stained with coffee. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Materials: Blue Percale 9" woof by 4" warp; scraps of calico for practice pieces; white thread No. 40 and No. 80; needles No. 7 and No. 8. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z The bed in one corner was enclosed with a calico curtain just the size of the bed. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Walking up to one of the prisoners, he first disarmed him, and then removed his calico hood, exposing the discomfited countenance of Brigham, Tom Miller's envious laborer. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z All fir-balsam trees and little rustic benches and pink calicoes and Grand Army suits and high cheek-bones and low insteps and—lots of noise? The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z And when at last the door was drawn back from within we were confronted by a stout, red-faced woman in a gown of printed calico. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Materials: Half of the large piece of calico; facing 18" × 2". Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z They had found a lot of calico in one car and each Indian had taken a bolt and had broken one end loose and was unfolding it as he rode over the prairie. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The head was covered by a species of hood or mask, equally of calico, that was fitted with holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, and which completed the disguise. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z They dress carelessly in loose blouses of colored calico. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z Next come cotton spinning and weaving, calico printing, yarn-spinning, dyeing and similar textile branches, besides a variety of other industries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Fold the large piece of calico across the warp through the center and cut on the fold. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Yelling, they rode back and forth in front of one another with calico flying, like a Maypole dance gone mad. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z He was not painted, however, and he wore an ordinary calico shirt, as was then the usual garb of his people in the warm season. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z I have an antipathy against people in such subordinate positions, as I dislike calico dresses and false jewelry. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z The establishments at Alexandria, Bonhill, Jamestown, Renton and other towns for all the processes connected with the bleaching, dyeing and printing of cottons, calicoes and other cloths, besides yarns, are conducted on the largest scale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z First section of the Placket Sampler: Fold the piece of calico with the warp, through the center and cut an opening on this fold five inches in length. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z In an unripe condition these fruits yield a good green dye, much used by calico printers and others. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The calicoes of that day were both dear and homely; and it required money to enable a woman to appear in a dress that would be thought attractive to the least practised eye. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z He would mess around like this, sometimes mixed up in rows, once in a robbery, sometimes dressed in a sarong, sometimes in an old striped calico suit; and he slept anywhere. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Then I distinguished a form on the station platform, a slender form in dark calico and wearing a sun-bonnet. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z Note: Scraps and odd pieces of calico can be used for the practice work on buttonholes. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z She had never known what it was to take a ten-dollar bill from a pile, and spend it with luxurious recklessness in white flannelette and nainsook and shirting and various colored calicoes for the children. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z And trees have owners just as much as calico. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The two or three little garments of coarse calico it contained had been washed and rough-dried. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z I looked, and saw fluttering before me the calico curtain which had blown in and out of Yox's story. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z Another visitor at Montpellier had been greatly surprised to see the women, neatly dressed in bright calicoes, going to church; and when a shower came, to see the dozen umbrellas that were raised. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z Cheap calico, as is all facing till it’s washed, when it turns out canvas or fine net. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z While this simple narrative was drawing to a close, I could detect the signs of great uneasiness among the leaders of the "calico bags." The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z When she had on her little night-gown of unbleached calico, she brushed her hair and plaited it again so that it hung in two braids on either side of her face. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z A woman in a long, faded calico dress had been cooking a stew at the oil stove. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z Wearing gauzy, sparkly fairy outfits like the others, and not overalls or bonnets or dresses made of calico. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum: “The Erlking.” 2010-06-28T04:00:00Z Both mattresses and cushions are stuffed with cotton, and are covered with printed calico, cloth, or some more expensive stuff. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments He hides his face in a calico bag. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z They get up, eat, chase the cows and chickens, hoe in the gardens, mow hay, and every blessed woman wears the same calico gown six days in the week. The Girl From Tim's Place Here is a man who evidently a few days ago held in his hand the yardstick with which he measured his calico. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War Never before had she been so unpleasantly alive to the thinness of her shoulders, and the undeveloped childish curves of her bosom, which were scarcely perceptible above the grey calico corset. The Undying Past So that good lady busied herself over what she called her own and Monsieur Canau’s “toots,”—meaning thereby divers calico undergarments—till her playbill curl-papers grew soft in the steam. A Little World Go you, men of the pale-faces, who hide your shame in calico bags, and do the same. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z I’m no fool, if I do wear calico.” The Girl From Tim's Place |
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