| 单词 | cambric |
| 例句 | His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A woman in a fine cambric gown sat with her back to us, unmoving in a chair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He produced the little square of fine cambric. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked over her friend’s shoulder; saw her take out a few pieces of stale candy and examine her prize—a coarse cambric handkerchief. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hubbard looked at the little scrap of cambric he held out to her. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The R dwarfed the other letters, the tail of it ran down into the cambric, away from the laced edge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And then, with his money tied up in his fine Sunday cambric handkerchief, he walked up to the village of Wall and bade good morning to the guards on the gate. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He drew a scrap of cambric from his pocket and handed it to her. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small square of cambric, very dainty. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A paper collar was made out of thin cambric stiffly starched. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He churned with excitement on his stool, his blond sausage curls bouncing on his cambric collar. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It conjures up other images we have of him as stout, natty, in tweed suit, cambric shirt and ankle boots, a human brandy snifter. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z In America these days, pillows are manufactured of synthetic cluster fibers, wrapped in 600-thread-count cotton cambric ticking, then twisted and stuffed in between lovers like gerrymandered bratwurst casings forming ramparts to desire. This Life: The Pillow Explosion Buries America 2012-02-11T01:08:02Z From April 18 through April 30, the cottage will be draped in black cambric, as it was after the assassination. Rememberence and reflection on the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The bark of every forest tree will show which is the north side, and a bright cambric needle dropped gently upon a dipper of water is a compass of unerring accuracy. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Her dress seemed to be of cambric or dimity, and from Mary's description, was that worn by ladies in the seventeenth century. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z Who can tell how often the corner of the delicate cambric will have to represent a tear which, like difficult passages in novels is ‘left to the imagination.’ The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The dress had no pocket, and I carried my handkerchief, a fine cambric one, in my hand. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Use simply a moistened cambric handkerchief, placed upon the lungs; envelop with at least two thicknesses of linen and one of flannel; wrap up warm and go to bed. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z The woman took the dainty cambric and surveyed it curiously, held at arm's length. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z When one row is completed the strip of cloth is raised and another row is made, and so on until it is necessary to put in another length of cambric. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z Before he even suggested it I pulled out my cambric handkerchief, and running on before him, laid it beneath the drooping beech-boughs on the swelling grass. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z And it was folded so neatly also, and placed so smoothly, that there was not a crumple in the cambric. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z It is not a little surprising to reflect that so insignificant a worm—not longer than a cambric needle when it first attacks the wood—is able to penetrate solid oak. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z "Yes, it had been sponged and—" "And bound with a fine cambric handkerchief," I interrupted. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z Blood trickled from the forehead of the man upon the ground; upon his black satin vest and smallclothes, upon his cambric shirt, as he strove to rise. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z I remarked admiringly, as I watched the dimples in them, and the infantinely rounded fingers, as they spread so softly amidst the delicate cambric. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z With a dry pair of boots, a good waterproof overcoat, and a cambric handkerchief tied round her neck, a lady may defy the worst weather in returning from hunting. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z The leaves are composed of strong fibres, which are capable of being manufactured into a ship’s cable or a skein of lace thread, a sail for a man-of-war or the finest cambric handkerchiefs. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z She had just the sort of cakes girls like best, and strawberries and cream, and the “cambric tea,” as Mrs. Adams called it, was rich with cream and sugar. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z This lace is made of steel rolled as fine as the point of a cambric needle. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z No sweet crackers and ‘cambric tea’ for mine, if you please!” The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z Once, indeed, thrusting in quarte, Tracy's point, aimed too high, flashed above the other's guard and ripped the cambric shirt at the sleeve. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Among the higher class of negroes the shroud is made of white mull muslin, but those of less means purchase cotton cambric, while the very poor ones are enveloped in a sheet. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z They sat the dolls about the table and went down to the kitchen for milk and hot water for the “cambric tea,” as Mrs. Adams called the beverage. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z The Bearers, Clergy, Physicians and all Officers, Civil and Military had linen and cambric hat-bands. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z She made the acquaintance of the steward, Mr. Drewitt, an elderly gentleman who went about in a plum-coloured suit and a large cambric frill to his shirt. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Carstares left off polishing his nails, yawned, and leaned back in his chair, a slim, graceful figure in cambric shirt and apricot satin breeches. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z And as he spoke, he detached from a hazel twig a square of cambric, a man's handkerchief. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Tight Backs For tight backs cut a guard of firm, thin cloth, such as cambric or jaconet, about three-fourths of an inch wide and as long as the book. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z But you have bought those cambrics by the piece, and also pi�as, thin, gossamer fabrics, of all degrees of color and beauty, sometimes with pattern flounces,—do you hear? A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z 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 I turned this over, and there, beneath and almost wrapt in what proved to be a delicate cambric handkerchief, embroidered with the name "Antonia M.," lay two handsome eggs! Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Friends and relatives walk after, carrying the large cambric parasols so much in vogue here. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z These features had grown customary and inconspicuous, as cambric will in time grow familiar to the skin that has brushed against coarser textures. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Ladies will find the greatest comfort in the simple but elegant dresses called batas, which are princess robes made of embroidered cambric or lawn. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Note.—Very small prints may not require to be pasted on cambric; and if the paper be very thick, the varnish may be applied without the previous sizing. A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. 2011-11-22T03:00:11.870Z No; that is not the loud-patterned square of cambric, three horses' heads printed on its corner, which he brings forth this time, but—it can hardly be believed—an oval pocket-mirror. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z This little one wears a white cambric weed on his hat to prevent sun-stroke, after the manner of greater people. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Then, as his keen eyes swept the graceful figure in its simple cambric dress, he added: "Is mademoiselle sure that I cannot serve her in any way?" The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z Another way is to wrap the head of a pin in the corner of a fine, soft cambric handkerchief, and placing it beneath the lid, sweep all round the eye with it. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z The brave girl sobbed again, and pressed a little frilled square of cambric to her eyes. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z In a letter to Emily, she says she is 'overwhelmed with oceans of needlework; yards of cambric to hem, muslin night-caps to make, etc.' The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z And I just crawled under her apron one day when she was reading, and I liked the feeling of the soft wool better than I did the cambric apron, it was so woolly and warm. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Why, then, I am partly in starched cambric, good mouse, if you must know, and partly in damask, and partly in taffeta of popinjay blue. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Miss Lydia was silent, stroking the gathers of her cambric with a shaking needle. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z They gave him a cambric handkerchief; he quickly removed the blood, seized a glass bottle, opened the wound widely and poured into it a portion of the contents. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z Batiste, ba-tēst′, n. usual French name for cambric: applied in commerce to a fine texture of linen and cotton. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The Doctor beamed and waved his white cambric handkerchief. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z No, my lord," he cried, "there was no sign of an explanation; the baby was wrapped only in a piece of coarse white cambric. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z "Well," said Harriet, "I will be seated at the table also, not reading, but working a pair of cambric cuffs; my mother-of-pearl work-box before me." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Guy said, and I thought he glanced with an unusual amount of curiosity and interest at my plain cambric wrapper and smooth hair. Daisy Thornton 2011-09-19T02:00:12.793Z Her face was frozen into a mask, and the bones of her thin little body quivered through the cambric of her night-gown. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z His right hand is occupied with his snowy cambric handkerchief. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z Then she held a piece of white cambric under it, and let three drops of blood fall on to it. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z Hark ye, master, I have camblets, satins, and velvets, cambric, and lawn for thee—choice commodities all. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Under its wing was a note, written in pale red ink, on a bit of torn linen cambric. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z In a dark back room just beyond the next corner, they found an elderly woman hemstitching yards of fine thread cambric ruffling. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Her dress consists of a tight-fitting, cherry-coloured kirtle of Hungarian velvet, wide open in front and fastened over her embroidered cambric smock by strings of pearls. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The Princess hid the piece of cambric in her bosom, mounted her horse, and set out to her bridegroom’s country. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z 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 The finest cambric handkerchief is coarser; God only can make a cover soft enough for the eye. Little Susy's Little Servants 2011-08-28T02:00:39.053Z Then the cautious look passed as swiftly as it had come, and Mrs. Blackburn stooped over the rocking-chair, and gathered the roll of thread cambric into her gloved hands. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Four merry men, their green cambric costumes carefully modeled after the attire of Robin Hood and his followers, had come to the party. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z This cambric she gave to her daughter, and said, ‘Dear child, take good care of this; it will stand you in good stead on the journey.’ Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z Cecil Castlemaine spoke no word, but she stretched out her hand and took it—her own costly toy of cambric and lace, with her broidered shield and coronet. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z Mrs. Poughkeepsie, with her applied handkerchief, did not look at all like fainting as she glanced above the snowy cambric folds toward her niece. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Fact is, I've always been fond of cambric tea, and this is just right. A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce 2011-08-22T02:00:57.327Z A serviceable pad may be made out of a few thicknesses of cloth or felt with fine silk or cambric stretched over it. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z A handkerchief—a very fine one—thin cambric. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z He advised me to wear cambric ruffles 58 instead of lace, and to take care not to mend them. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Home went to the fire, took out a piece of red-hot charcoal, and placed it on a folded cambric pocket-handkerchief which he borrowed for the purpose from one of the guests. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z She looked very pretty—when did she not?—in her embroidered cambric morning dress, with no ornament but her jetty ringlets flowing down each side her freshly-blooming face. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Nothing however, notwithstanding his deep-felt happiness, could be better got up than Mr. Cartwright's sorrow as he watched his wife laid in the tomb: never was white cambric used with better grace. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z For this purpose take a piece of fine cambric, wash it well in hot water to remove all grease and other impurities, and then treat it in the same way as the paper. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z As for cambric I had none to make lace of. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z More laughing at the back of the wagon, a little choking, and some stuffing of cambric handkerchiefs into mouths pretty or the reverse. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Round her neck she had a white cambric habit shirt, the shape of which seemed to me like that of a man's shirt collar. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z My beloved Cartwright! what mean you?" exclaimed his affectionate wife, following him to the window, and gently attempting to withdraw the cambric that concealed his features: "what can that undutiful boy mean? The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Her rich hair was braided as she used to wear it, and banded with black ribbon; her white cambric dress was belted with the same, and loops of narrower hung from her mourning brooch. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z So tender and soft, of the finest cambric. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Her blood is all water and lymph, and that is the reason that her cheeks and lips look so like a cambric handkerchief, why she pants and puffs if she goes up-stairs. Dr. Hardhack's Prescription A Play for Children in Four Acts 2011-05-24T02:00:12.880Z But what surprised me most in her costume was an embroidered cambric handkerchief and a pair of black mittens. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z She sat in her parlour, with a soft cambric handkerchief to her eyes; near her stood her servant Abby, suggesting consolation. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z "Of misplaced confidence!" uttered Orrin, gloomily, removing his cambric, and arising with a show of melancholy composure. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Mrs. Brand's cambric handkerchief was drawn forth, unfolded, and raised to her eyes in memory of the departed. Daisy Burns (Volume 2) 2011-05-20T02:00:30.427Z Eliza laid in her work basket the embroidered cambric ruffle she was hemming and, throwing her white apron over her head, went swiftly to the house. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Put two sheets of this cambric note-paper together flat and stitch them. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z Her print gown of a delicate pink cambric was spotlessly neat, and her white sunbonnet had been laundered with the greatest care. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z Jessie was sorry for him as he began, with a rueful visage, to disentangle his cambric and his brains. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Through the bosom of the frock, which was folded back, appeared linen of the finest cambric, richly tamboured, as if done by the fair fingers of some tasteful maiden. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Cabinets were sealed, busts shrouded in cambric hoods, pictures veiled. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "Do you see what an opportunity the different colored cambric gives?" said Helen. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z This body is part of knitting, which is let into cambric. The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet 2011-03-17T02:00:11.807Z He wore breeches of black velvet and a shirt of the finest cambric, open at the neck. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z But my dear young mistress used to sit in yon chair, stitch, stitch, stitch at the Doctor's cambric shirt-fronts, and the fire was always burning bright and pleasant when he came home. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Beneath these lay a long altar cover of snowy linen cambric, "the fair linen cloth," studded with crosses along the centre, and bordered with annunciation lilies. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z See, here is one;' and she pleadingly held out a dainty piece of lace cambric which I could easily have put inside my watch-case. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z Your geography book tells you that Cambrai gave its name to the fine linen or muslin which was first made in the fifteenth century, and is known as cambric. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z A cambric chemisette with small plaits, a raised collar of two frills very finely plaited, and edged with a very narrow valenciennes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Even her handkerchiefs mourned in a deep border, and her cap of delicate white cambric called loudly on the world to witness what a model widow she was. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Florence is making ladylike dabs at her forehead every two seconds with her cambric handkerchief, and is regretting keenly her folly in not retiring in-doors long ago. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z The sleeveless chemise of snow-white cambric, and the translucent skirt of thin muslin, like the gown of Nora Creina, left— “Every beauty free To sink or swell as heaven pleases.” The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z A broad band of white cambric encircled their hats, and streamed away behind in two pennons nearly a yard in length. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Sleeves half-large, of cambric, plaited small; and ending in a stitched wrist-band with two plaited trimmings, and narrow valenciennes, like the collar. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Such a waving of cambric handkerchiefs, too, and how the crowd doffed their hats and hurrahed! The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Then he drew a small fine cambric handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his forehead. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z A shirt ruffled with finest cambric, both at the bosom and sleeves, completed his costume. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z His white cambric pocket handkerchief was scented with the most delicious Eau-de-Cologne. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z St. Hilaire leaned idly with one arm on the gallery rail, while he flecked from his coat a few grains of dust with a cambric handkerchief. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z But the Princess said, "My dress must be all gold, and no part cambric—this will not do." Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z Simple garments, well made of firm fine cambric are much to be preferred to those overtrimmed with cheap lace and sleazy embroidery. 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 So long as a gentleman’s cloth and cambric were en règle, no one speculated as to whether his tailor was contented, or his blanchisseuse had given him a discharge for her little account. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z He would have liked to be this dainty little piece of cambric moistened with her tears. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Mademoiselle C�cile, wiping pretty eyes with a tiny piece of cambric, implored this between gasping breaths. A Blot on the Scutcheon She took out her handkerchief in order to wave him farewell, but he did not look up, and the white wisp of cambric fluttered unseen in the twilight. The Undying Past Materials: Pink, blue or yellow paper cambric 27 inches; coarse thread; coarse needle; bright, pretty pictures which the children have cut from papers, magazines, cards, etc.; paste. 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 Sir Philip Vining looked puzzled; he threw himself back in his chair, took snuff hastily, spilling a few grains upon his cambric shirt-frill. By Birth a Lady Her two round arms emerged through the sleeveless opening of her night-dress, and, from time to time, he could feel through the cambric the well-rounded outlines of her form. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z He had to go farther, he explained, after dabbling his face in the water of the pump trough and wiping it with the fine white cambric handkerchief which I had so scorned. Deep Moat Grange Stars of tin, sewed upon dark cambric, made a suit of shining armor. Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' France is noted for the finest kinds of lawn and cambric, while Ireland excels in the production of table linen. 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 wrist has three rows of rich cambric edging, made to fall over the hand. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 It was a woman's handkerchief—a bit of cambric and lace exhaling the delicate odor of violets. The Mystery of Evelin Delorme A Hypnotic Story He had not changed his dress since the preceding evening; his throat was bare, his waistcoat thrown open, and on the torn and rumpled cambric of his shirt-front were drops of blood. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 It was a pocket-handkerchief, of the finest cambric, trimmed with costly lace, and bearing in one corner the initials "L. N." beautifully embroidered, and surmounted with a ducal coronet. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 About his neck he had wound a spotlessly white cambric necktie, tied in a delicate knot. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. There was a neatness and uniformity too, in his dress—he might have been known by his blue coat, white marseilles vest, black pantaloons, and linen cambric napkin.... Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Marguerite folded her mantle over her cambric peignoir, all bespattered with small red spots. Marguerite de Valois Then, with the same abiding calm, he restored the cambric to his pocket, bowed low to the Queen, and lounged majestically towards the door. The Firebrand Whose bark was like a cambric needle, and who, within five minutes after her arrival, challenged to deadly combat my beloved Bertie, who weighed good four pounds. Life on the Stage When Sally took up the wet clothes to carry them to the wash, there were the marks of Ponto's teeth, where he had fastened them firmly through the dress, cambric and flannel skirts. Little Frankie at His Plays He might have been known by his blue suit, white vest, and cambric handkerchief. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact He has just returned from his evening drive, is dressed in a cool, cambric dressing-gown, after a bath, and is taking a quiet cigar, in his high-roofed parlor. To Cuba and Back The girl had taken off her cloak and hat and offered to the wind her arms and shoulders, protected only by a cambric blouse. The Tremendous Event I sang, as I made my way uptown to buy several yards of rose-pink paper cambric and a half garland of American-made artificial roses. Life on the Stage For a long time the poor girl remained mute, staring at the ill-fated blue garment, and one of white cambric that hung the last on the hooks. Love's Usuries He might have been known by his blue suit, white vest, and cambric handkerchief. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Stooping, he, too, examines minutely the fragile piece of lace and cambric his uncle is still holding. Faith and Unfaith The Abbess and all her nuns wear the same kind of black dress, with cap and veil, quite black and unredeemed by any trace of white linen or cambric. Russian Life To-day There was lingerie to be selected, stuffs immaterial as moonbeams, cambrics that could be drawn through a ring. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident At the focus of this beam a fine cambric needle without magnetism was placed so that the light passed it longitudinally. The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action "That claret was heady," he told himself, and with a bit of cambric he mopped his brow. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes As for my luckless throat, it was so swathed about with its bandages of cambric that my chin had a most supercilious elevation, and to look about I must first turn my body. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois On both sides of these portieres were hung what we would call the sheerest linen cambric. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 It is made of cambric and cut lace sewn on to wires bent into the shape required. English Costume He then produced a magnifying glass from one of his pockets and requested me to examine the surface of the bit of cambric and lace. The Green God There is a record of a privy purse expenditure in 1530 for cambric for Henry VIII.’s shirts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The total value of these fineries and of all the lace and cambric required for the baby's trousseau was estimated at three hundred pounds. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History If trimmed, use cambric ruffles, lace, or embroidery of good quality. The American Country Girl First, the lady put on her underpropper of wire and holland, and then she would place with a great nicety her ruff of lace, or linen, or cambric. English Costume The stained scrap of cambric formed a bond between them as he gazed deeply in her eyes now, while a faint smile dawned upon his lip. Blind Policy Embroidery cambric is a fine linen used for embroidery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The strong point in Pope's displays of sentiment, is in the graceful management of a cambric handkerchief. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Quite late in the evening, I was taken out of bed and arrayed in an embroidered cambric slip. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 She had made him but a few days before a small cambric parasol, and with this as a sort of airship he had floated off on the wind to the castle. Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe A white frock, a cambric, blue, with white dots, and a seersucker, trimmed with bands of blue. Helen Grant's Schooldays The mother pressed her cambric handkerchief to her eyes. Gertrude's Marriage Can you make me a cambric shirt, Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme; Without any seam or needlework? The Nursery Rhymes of England But when ’Phemie approached it she saw that it was merely a glass door with a curtain of black cambric hung behind it. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The coffee and the sugar and the shirts had formed an amalgam; mud, shoes, and cambric handkerchiefs all came out together; not a thing was dry. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant It was a faded cambric of last summer, rather short in the skirt for such a large girl, but then it was pretty well worn out. Helen Grant's Schooldays See, here are some sweet French cambric handkerchiefs to be marked in embroidery. Sowing and Sewing A Sexagesima Story My grandmother sent me a new-fashioned three cornered cambric country cut handkerchief. The Nursery Rhymes of England When they get out in a desert, or are left to roast and die under the equator, they put off all their affectations with their starched cambric, and are not altogether unworthy of their great-grandfathers. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June It was of a finer cambric than we have ever seen in this district, or indeed, than I have seen anywhere else. Lord Stranleigh Abroad She made believe now and then, that she was ordering some of the lovely lawns and cambrics, and that she didn't have to consider whether they would wash well, and how they would get made. Helen Grant's Schooldays The ruff, which began simply enough in the first half of this century as a little cambric collar with a goffered edge, is for all of us the distinguishing note of Elizabethan dress. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Not an old-fashioned three cornered cambric country cut handkerchief, but a new-fashioned three cornered cambric country cut handkerchief. The Nursery Rhymes of England Its minute and finely drawn scale was made upon the zinc with a cambric needle, and the completed instrument is the result of great skill and patience. The Last Cruise of the Saginaw She was dressed in a fine cambric simply made, with little white ruffles about her neck and above her motherly hands. Rose MacLeod The little sailing boat was coming out, her sail like a fleck of cambric on the dark water. Command His hat is feathered, his doublet lets the fine cambric of the shirt be seen at the waist, his short breeches are fringed with points or tags. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Then come to me for your cambric shirt, And you, &c. The Nursery Rhymes of England Why the blazes must he seek out a thieving blaguard with a pack full of damaged cambric to make a friend of? The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life For others, divine eyes shall moisten the best French cambric, and worsted slippers shall be worked by fairy hands. The London Pulpit A little after, he got to his feet very sore and shaken, the poorer by a purse which contained exactly one penny postage-stamp, by a cambric handkerchief, and by the all-important envelope. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) Short jackets with close half-sleeves were worn with the neck and breast covered with a cambric buffant that borrowed a mode from the pouter pigeon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Andr�s, with the window shades lowered, was lounging and smoking in his fine cambric shirt sleeves. The Bright Shawl Around his wrists and neck were revealed graceful ruffles of the finest cambric. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion If you wanted to hem a cambric handkerchief, you’d take this fine one.” Almost a Woman Only a handkerchief, a tiny square of embroidered cambric, crumpled and soiled,—her handkerchief, with her initials “A. P.” in the corner! The Red Symbol The hair in its caul is pulled backward, and wires set in it allow the ends of a cambric veil to float behind like the wings of a butterfly settled on a flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The shirt-maker had filled his box with the finest procurable cambrics and tallest stocks. The Bright Shawl When she has sponged his arm with excessive tenderness, she brings a cambric handkerchief, and, tearing it into strips, winds it round and round the torn flesh. Portia or By Passions Rocked Harriet held the cambric strip of embroidery from her and viewed it. The House of Fulfilment Better protected was the Cherokee girl, for she carried in her hand, and now and again waved, laughingly, as if for jest, a white flag, a length of fluttering cambric and lace. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Dot had two plates of it, besides her pretty cup of cambric tea. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in Oblivious of passing hours, and profoundly immersed in speculations concerning her future, the girl sewed on, working scallop after scallop, and flower after flower, in the gossamer cambric between her slender fingers. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Fabian, in an excess of passion, tears off the cambric bandages from his arm, and flings them at her feet. Portia or By Passions Rocked Jupon of plain, white cambric muslin, edged with a border of rich open needlework. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The inner wrapping next to the skin was of what we now call fine linen cambric. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. She could get a white muslin and a white cambric, which, with different sortings of ribbons, served her for all dress occasions. Household Papers and Stories As Salome spoke, she plunged her stiletto vigorously into a piece of cambric, and her thin lip curled contemptuously. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Do you think because you wear a fine hat and a cambric chemise you are a young lady? The Grandee Morning Costume.—Dress and pardessus of printed cambric muslin, the pattern consisting of wreaths and bouquets of flowers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Chemisette of plaited cambric, headed with a broad frill of embroidery; full under-sleeves of cambric, with a row of embroidery round the wrist. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Bowing deeply, I offered her the slip of cambric. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The faded blue cambric curtain was twisted into a knot, and as it was now nearly noon, the sun shone in and made a patch of gold on the stained and dusky floor. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Then she twisted herself around towards the window and began to sew savagely, with a skill much better adapted to the binding of carpets than to any sort of work upon cambric handkerchiefs. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht He knew about it all, he knew, he knew—he knew how alluring she had looked in the blue corduroy suit, the bit of cambric pressed agonizingly to her face. Seven Keys to Baldpate Mrs M'Coul was more of a robust fabric, and she was without any plaid, soberly dressed in the weeds of a widow, with a clean cambric handkerchief very snodly prined over her breast. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters He buried his face in a cambric handkerchief. Fathers and Children With her back to them, she groped for the dainty bit of cambric that was her handkerchief. The Missourian After this magnificent rebuke, Mr. Prigg drew out his cambric handkerchief, and most gently applied it to his stately nose. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit For even in the faint flickering light of the station he found ample reason for rejoicing that the bit of cambric was no longer agonizingly pressed. Seven Keys to Baldpate Some marvellously fine specimens of such cambric may be seen at the South Kensington Museum and the British Museum. Needlework As Art They wear short skirts, comin’ just below their knees, black bodices, long black stockings with gay colored garters, wooden shoes, broad-brimmed hats, saucer shaped, trimmed with stiff black cambric bows. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife In the distance upon the mountain Ivan beheld a tent of fine cambric, upon which was represented a copper kingdom, and on its top was a copper ball. The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales She repeated this, panting for breath, as she sank down to the couch in her favorite tower-chamber, and took the delicate handkerchief of lace and cambric, on which Judson had just dropped some pungent perfume. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals Were the features against which that frail bit of cambric was agonizingly pressed of a pleasing contour? Seven Keys to Baldpate And in the calm and sane domestic interior, under the mild ray of the evening lamp, the sole sounds were Henry's dry, hacking cough and the cornet-like blasts of his nose into his cambric handkerchief. A Great Man A Frolic His quick eyes had detected a monogram in one corner of the bit of cambric, and with an air of triumph he held it beneath the light, examining it closely. The Ivory Snuff Box The pillows are made of stuff spun in the castle, and are to be covered with crimson damask, besides which they will have an upper case of Holland cambric, trimmed with lace. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy There was an Indian matting of bright light colors on the floor, white lace curtains lined with rose-colored cambric at the windows, and a sofa and easy-chairs covered with rose-colored French chintz. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Then joyously they trooped to a far more alluring, more human girl, who pressed a bit of cambric to her face in a railway station, while a ginger-haired agent peeped through the bars. Seven Keys to Baldpate Great were the consultings; a little basket of Indian work was filled up with cambric handkerchiefs, and a bottle of sugar and water provided, and we started with him for a day's journey. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine There will probably, too, be piles of showy cambric jackets and gauzy silk handkerchiefs; but often these are sold at separate stalls. The Soul of a People The material most in use, is jacconet or cambric muslin: the frill, of lawn or cambric, which you please. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet They were dressed very finely in light checked summer silks, and flowing sleeves and surplice waists, with chemisettes and undersleeves of linen cambric and thread lace. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend How ridiculously small that bit of cambric had been to hide so much beauty. Seven Keys to Baldpate So we filled the box with cotton, and he was formally put to bed with a folded cambric handkerchief round his neck, to keep him from beating his wings. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine At her throat and wrists are plain cambric frills. Holbein The materials are cambric muslin, lace, net, &c., and the manner in which they are made is various. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Fold them in a piece of thin cambric, apply it to the part affected, and it will take out the bruise. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Light material, such as cambric or light union silk, is best for this purpose, but not a material that has any dressing in it. Boys' Book of Model Boats Captain Brand gave a sniff of disgust as he entered this floating sanctum of Don Ignaçio, but, without remark, seated himself on a canvas stool, and waved a perfumed cambric kerchief before his nose. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life If you don’t mind my taking part of the milk for it, I could have milk-toast and we could drink cambric tea.” A Dear Little Girl at School They are made of lawn or cambric, and sewed on to a band. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Do you know, she did not go to bed until past one o'clock; she was finishing my blue cambric. Lover or Friend I have too much reason to remember it, for my cambric apron, which had cost me three months' working, was torn to rags. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago She looked prettier than ever in her dark-blue cambric and large shady hat. Our Bessie “We don’t drink it, but we can have cambric tea.” A Dear Little Girl at School Gentlemen’s Fronts.—The material is fine lawn or cambric. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet This is my Sunday frock; my blue cambric is for every afternoon. Lover or Friend She took out a scrap of cambric, dried her eyes like magic, and began to flit about the garden, humming a light air under her breath. Frances Kane's Fortune Grannie took up the morsel of cambric; she began the curious movements of the wrist and hand, the intricate, involved contortions of the thread. Good Luck I think there is still a little milk, for it didn’t take much for the cambric tea, and we can have more of that. A Dear Little Girl at School Neck and Pocket Handkerchiefs.—These are made of a great variety of materials, as silk, muslin, cambric, lawn, and net. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet What a blessing that new cambric is finished! Lover or Friend White, scented, cambric pocket-handkerchiefs are not often brought into request upon their “lovely faces.” Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The magic loop made its appearance; the quilting stood out in richness and majesty on the piece of cambric. Good Luck But the mind of Pattaquasset was upon the evening's revel, and upon the beauty of white cambric and blue ribbands. Say and Seal, Volume I What yards of snowy gauze-like cambric, with gold-embroidered ends, are wound in graceful folds round the fez, contrasting with the dark mahogany colour of his sun-burnt brow. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. And Phillis glanced down at the neat bib apron that she wore over her cambric dress. Not Like Other Girls The thin cambric garments French women were beginning to wear then were shown to you and tossed contemptuously aside as only fit for actresses. Home Life in Germany The feather-stitching involved many movements of the hand and arm, and certainly gave a splendid effect to the fine linen or cambric on which it was worked. Good Luck It seemed to me that somebody was thrusting cambric needles into my skin in a sudden and violent manner, and at the most unexpected places; and strange sounds were continually buzzing in my ears. The Land of Thor The garçons in scarlet tunics, relieved by their white turbans and cambric trowsers, are hurrying to and fro at the call of the motley guests. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. She was in the same cambric dress you admired. Not Like Other Girls The skin looked perfectly colorless, and the soft cambric and still softer flannel of the finest which had covered the spot were stiff, as if they had been exposed to a winter night's frost. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others She took off her bonnet and dusted it, pinned it into an old white cambric handkerchief, and laid it beside the shawl on a little shelf. Good Luck Gladys Norman collapsed over her typewriter, where with heaving shoulders she strove to mute her mirth with a ridiculous dab of pink cambric. Malcolm Sage, Detective She pulled a white cambric handkerchief out of her pocket, and took it by one corner in her right hand, to wave it in the dance. The Brothers Karamazov Do you remember the young ladies in the blue cambric dresses?” Not Like Other Girls Knowest thou not that the Queen’s Majesty did fashion a shirt of cambric for her brother when she was but six years old? In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Grannie was trimming some beautiful underlinen for a titled lady; it was made of the finest cambric, and the feather-stitching was to be a special feature. Good Luck “What, dead?” cried the Senator, hiding his face with an embroidered cambric handkerchief. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora She found the ridiculous little square of filmy embroidered cambric, and blew her thin little nose, and furtively whisked away a tear-drop. The Dop Doctor The girls wore their fresh cambrics 8 and plain straw hats: no one seemed to think it necessary to put on smart clothing when they wished to visit their friends. Not Like Other Girls Its place was supplied by ample frills of cambric lace, that puffed out over the breast. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West She then put the cambric into her granddaughter's hand. Good Luck His costume consisted of a hat of Guayaquil grass, a shirt of the finest cambric, an embroidered vest, and silk velvet pantaloons fastened down the sides with large buttons of gold. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora "Because we are so happy," she told David, who had found her kneeling, white and exquisitely virginal in her lace and cambric draperies by the bedside. The Dop Doctor Francis Bacon made her majesty "a poor oblation of a garment;" Charles Smith, the dustman, threw upon the pile of treasure "two bottes of cambric." A Book About Lawyers Their coats were of the finest cloth, their ruffles of the costliest cambric, and jewels sparkled in their shirt bosoms and glittered upon their fingers. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The old gentleman was dressed in a style quite juvenile;—his coat was of the most modern cut, his vest and gloves white, and his cambric handkerchief fragrant with eau de cologne. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston It was of such fine linen, and so finely woven, that it was comparable to modern cambric and muslin. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Lessie blows her small nose with a toot of incredulity, and says through an intervening wad of damp lace-edged cambric: "Go on!" The Dop Doctor In Phœbe's outstretched hands was the dearest possible little baby's undergarment—all of cambric, with narrow ribbons at the neck. The Panchronicon While the children are putting on their French cambrics, I will tell you a Fairy story. Nine Little Goslings The unfurled cambric flutters to the breeze of his own creation, and coruscations of white kid and other white materials pass and repass before our eyes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. He then brought from an inner room an immaculate, white cambric shirt, a pair of trousers, old but carefully ironed, and knitted, grey worsted slippers. Mountain Blood A Novel Once re-established there, she answered no more questions, but with truly aristocratic composure resumed her interrupted task of stuffing a costly bonnet of embroidered cambric and quilled lace with sand. The Dop Doctor There are indeed one or two articles partially in demand among us, in which the French have the superiority; silks, lace, gloves, black broad cloth, and cambric are the chief among them. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Now, go upstairs and tell Justine to put on your French cambrics and your sashes, and when you're ready come straight down. Nine Little Goslings Flora might as well have striven to confine a hurricane within the bounds of a cambric pocket-handkerchief, as to lay the least embargo upon that lady’s freedom of speech or action. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life A film of cambric, golden in the lamplight, settled about her smooth shoulders, fell in long diaphanous lines. Mountain Blood A Novel Lady Beauvayse dabs her tearful eyes with a cobwebby square of laced cambric. The Dop Doctor “But your head must be badly cut, and—” “Don’t,” he protested, as the moist bit of cambric touched his hair. Shoe-Bar Stratton So soon as little folk find their voices, whether their dress be feathers, or furs, or French cambric, they are sure to make themselves heard and seen. Little Brothers of the Air The black cassock and the scarlet hood made a fine contrast, while the short cambric surplice added to the costume a most delicate grace. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Andy was to help wind the Maypole and was to wear yellow cambric shorts, a white blouse, and a yellow sash around his middle. Jerry's Charge Account She went always voluminously clad in black or shot-silk gowns, their skirts so swelled out by a multiplicity of starched cambric petticoats, adorned with tambour-work, that she was credited with the existence of a crinoline. The Dop Doctor “I’m a fool to—to waste time like this,” she faltered, dabbing her eyes with the crumpled square of cambric. Shoe-Bar Stratton He had a kind of idea that he might be made into cambric if he were rightly treated. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen There were only a brown plaided gingham, a blue calico, and a thick white cambric to choose from. A Little Country Girl Then there were two chairs from the principal's office to be draped with gold-colored cambric, throne chairs for the King and Queen. Jerry's Charge Account Her sense of contact was so acute and irritable that it was with the utmost difficulty that cambric could be found sufficiently fine for her use. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series And a very useful thing that same cambric is," observed I. " Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 As Uncle Morris put this question he arose, walked up to the table and began to look at Jessie’s work, for by this time she had begun stitching on the cambric handkerchief again. Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him He caught at her hand as if it had been a life-line—her kind, smooth hand, the helpful hand with the bit of white cambric bound round a finger burned in his service. Ladies-In-Waiting I was dressed early in the afternoon in a suit of black, full trimmed, falling bands of white cambric, edged, and a little mourning sword with a crape knot, and slings of black velvet. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... The square of cambric bore his initials, J. S. Blood from her lip remained on it. The Flaming Jewel She ceased to desire to be grown up, and was satisfied to run races with Lilias in the simple pink cambric frock, which suited her infinitely better than the gorgeous chiffon. The Children of Wilton Chase "I'd like to go out with papa," said Lucy, who sat carefully drinking her cambric tea, so that she might not spill a drop on the mahogany table. Virginia Under the habit a jupon of cambric muslin with a deep border of needlework. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 And Friedrich found himself with a morsel of cambric in his hand, which he kissed passionately, while Sydney was walking towards the bridge's end, answering Susy's cry. A Tar-Heel Baron Upon my word, Adrian," said Mr. Landale, clenching his hand nervously round his fine cambric handkerchief, "there must be something of importance in the wind to have altered your bearing towards me to this extent. The Light of Scarthey The martyr in brown linen went up, and the other martyr in white cambric went down, both looking as they felt, rebellious and unhappy. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag You just let me put a few cambric ruffles inside the bust and you'll stand out a plenty. Virginia Sometimes very fine cambric needles are thrust through, just underneath one of the wing rays, to lift up and keep it in position, -until the braces can be brought to bear. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. The coppers were closely inspected daily by the captain, and if they soiled a cambric handkerchief the cook's allowance was stopped. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “She’s in the country,” said the disguised man-servant, who knew that she was then at the Green Dragon, teaching sundry little girls the mysteries of felling and whipping cambric. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot To his chagrin the spot was covered with a piece of green cambric. The Story of Leather The ammonia is used for medicine and all sorts of scientific preparations, in bleaching cloth, and in the printing of calicoes and cambrics.” Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Sisters of Charity in white cambric caps told their beads through the mazes of the lancers. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim He raised the fan and pointed, like an artist, at the bare arms and the line of the falling shoulders under the fine cambric bodice. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Mrs Louvaine, behind the cambric, was heard to murmur something about a sordid spirit, people whose minds never soared, and old maids who knew nothing of the strength of maternal love. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Sally was to be Will-o’-the-Wisp, and a plump, spooky sprite she made with dabs of phosphorus upon her fluttering black cambric costume, and funny peaked cap, which glowed uncannily when the room was darkened. A Dixie School Girl "And you exhibited to him the vial of chloroform and the piece of cambric?" The Diamond Coterie It was of the finest cambric, and bore in the corner the letter C. Then there remained the two packets to examine. A Queen's Error Danjou read like a genuine 'Player' of Picheral's classification, making lengthy pauses while he moistened his lips with his glass of water, and wiped them with a fine cambric handkerchief. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Cut all of these from bright-colored cambric of a size to fit the monkey. Little Folks' Handy Book He laid the brown paper on his desk, turned back the edges, and revealed part of a fine cambric pocket-handkerchief, crumpled and blood-stained, charred and blackened. In the Mayor's Parlour One of them was something of a dandy,—witness the superfine bit of cambric, and the print of jaunty boots where he leaped the garden fence. The Diamond Coterie She wore a broad-brimmed hat and a skirt of flowered cambric. Jack 1877 A vest of unbleached cambric suited well the heat of the climate. The Tiger Hunter Fold a piece of cambric for the coat, and cut it out as you would for a paper doll, with the fold at the top. Little Folks' Handy Book That, as you may observe, is no common article; it's a gentleman's handkerchief—fine cambric. In the Mayor's Parlour Constance nods, then goes through the arch and returns with a little phial of chloroform, and a fragment of cambric in her hand. The Diamond Coterie Without saying what I meant to do with it I had begged a square of white cambric from Mam' Chloe, and set about notching it with a pair of blunt scissors. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood A packet carefully put up, enclosing a small cambric handkerchief, sweetly scented with perfume, and inside this a tress of hair—a woman’s hair, long and beautiful, by my faith!” The Tiger Hunter Purchase moss-green lining cambric, at four, five, or six cents a yard, to stretch over the doorway you intend to use. Little Folks' Handy Book This was a very fine cambric handkerchief—I'd never seen one like it before. In the Mayor's Parlour "Show them in," said Constance, at the same time gathering up the piece of cambric and the little vial and putting them in her pocket. The Diamond Coterie I have never beheld anything that so closely and humiliatingly resembled the battle on the cambric square under the big sweeting. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood The dalmatic was a robe of cloth of gold, the stole was lined with crimson cloth and richly embroidered, the alb, or sleeveless tunic of fine cambric, was trimmed with beautiful lace. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V The space between the folding doors will probably call for five yards of cambric. Little Folks' Handy Book Besides the paper cambric I had a lot of other pieces of dress goods, which were in good shape and which I intended to sell to the highest bidder. Twenty Years of Hus'ling She drew from her pocket a small white roll, and unfolding it, held up for his inspection half of a fine cambric handkerchief, and a tiny stoppered vial of finest cut glass. The Diamond Coterie That’s just the kind of thing,’ said he, as the Hungarian offered him a fine white cambric handkerchief, beautifully worked with gold at the hems; ‘now you shall see me set this handkerchief on fire.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' On the other side was a rude table containing boxes of cotton cloth, cambrics or checked goods, sewing cotton, buttons, thimbles, scissors, jack-knives, needles, and pins. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 One width of scarlet cambric twenty-six inches long, used just as it comes, will make the jacket. Little Folks' Handy Book Bouvard's room, the floor of which was well waxed, and which had curtains of cotton cambric and mahogany furniture, had the advantage of a balcony overlooking the river. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life A dark flannel shirt replaced the snowy cambric one, and there was neither cravat nor collar to mark the boundary line between his dark face and the still darker material. A Confederate Girl's Diary “I hope you haven’t hurt yourself,” said “Joe,” seeing that the other kept his white cambric handkerchief still tightly pressed to his forehead. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant As the infant world ascended from cambric and dimity to broadcloth and crinoline, its propensity for investigation grew stronger. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Cut from a piece of strong linen, colored cambric, or white muslin, four oblongs twenty-four inches long by twelve inches wide. Little Folks' Handy Book France is noted for the manufacture of linen lawns and cambrics, and Belfast, Ireland, for table-cloths and napkins. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges One single dress did my running-bag contain—a white linen cambric with a tiny pink flower—the one I wore when I told Hal good-bye for the last time. A Confederate Girl's Diary Woe betide the cook or steward whose galley or saloon had a speck of dirt that would make a smudge on the skipper's cleanest cambric handkerchief! All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways I examined the strips of the fine cambric handkerchief with which my arm was bound, hoping to find a name. Fairy Fingers A Novel She wore a dark blue cambric to-day with a soft leather belt and dainty white muslin cuffs and collar as a relief. In the Mist of the Mountains Of course the ladies would consider the proper place for it to be on the cambric handkerchief, but this idea would be about the last to occur to your matter-of-fact snuff-maker. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce A high, wooden mantel, painted black, occupied the other end of the room; the fireplace was hidden by a square, cambric screen, with a cut-out picture of fruit and flowers pasted in the center. Peggy-Alone The beautiful fabric called grasscloth, which rivals the best French cambric in softness and fineness of texture, is manufactured from the fiber of this plant. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture She wolfed them down, wiping at the end of her long nose with a wadded-up hunk of cambric. Vigorish One was a white quilt of what was called "stuffed work," made by working two surfaces of cloth together, the upper one of fine cambric, the lower one of coarse homespun. The Development of Embroidery in America A chemisette of the finest cambric appeared within the bodice, and covered the bosom. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance From Switzerland, where the plain Swiss net and figured cambric is a specialty in the St. Gall district. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Tack pieces of cheap burlap across the frame and cover with ordinary black cambric. Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 A handkerchief of pure white cambric with a tiny monogram also in white was then shaken out and presented. The Man Who Lost Himself There was another form of this French embroidery, the materials used being cambrics, linens, and muslins of all kinds, the most precious of which were the linen-cambrics and India mulls. The Development of Embroidery in America The short full sleeves were also of white cambric. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Examine the different grades of the following fabrics: white lawn, Indian Head cotton suiting, muslin, lawn, and cambric. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades A white India muslin, and a cambric with a tiny rosebud in it. A Little Girl in Old Boston An old coloured woman used to come round with brewer's yeast, and one morning she had a great piece of black cambric twisted about her bonnet. A Little Girl of Long Ago Happily, in this blessed land, where hunger was unknown, we were not conscious of its terrors, and perhaps hardly knew why the "cambric needle" and the darning needle were the only ones in the market. The Development of Embroidery in America There was a pitcher of hot water to make cambric tea, square lumps of sugar, dainty slices of bread already spread, smoked beef, pot-cheese, raspberries, cherry-jam, and two kinds of cake. A Little Girl in Old New York We had much smaller hoops—of course it would not have been seemly to have the bridesmaids as smart as the bride—and we were dressed alike, in white French cambric, with light green trimmings. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow She had bought a good stout English cambric—lively colored, as she called it—and a nice woolen or stuff frock, as goods of that kind was often called. A Little Girl in Old Boston It was over in an instant, but in that instant Ram Lal had assured himself of the presence of the precious jacket beneath the cambric folds. The Flaw in the Sapphire The buff waistcoat, white cambric cravat, and ruffled shirt still held their own. History of the United States, Volume 3 One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity. A Little Girl in Old New York Were she a wealthier miss, she would give them, besides, neat cambric trowsers with lace borders. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Betty had a blue and white cambric, I think they called it, last summer, and she looked so nice in it, but it didn't wash well. A Little Girl in Old Boston The puzzles might amuse her, but she tires so easily that I know some small cambric scrapbooks would prove a boon to her just now. Heart of Gold “His majesty King Charles of England!” said Sir Henry, drinking a hearty draught before wiping his lips on a French cambric handkerchief. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" I took the precaution to roll the several billets up in the cambric cap, "guessing" they were not intended for the Colonel's eyes; for so was our male companion styled by the driver. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. By its side stood the coffin, of unstained pine, lined with white cambric. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 When dry all raw edges or surfaces should be covered with pieces of cambric or lining canvas glued on. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Cherry, will you please bring me my scissors from the work-basket and that roll of colored cambric on the top shelf in the hall closet? Heart of Gold That little perfumed piece of cambric, with its lace border, was to him an ensign of hope—a banner that would have beckoned him on to achieve deeds of still higher daring. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Then the muscles of her scrawny throat twitched, and a tear splashed down on the soft cambric. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale By its side stood the coffin, of unstained pine, lined with white cambric. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Lying on a rude grass couch is an elderly lady, her hair snow-white, and covered with a cambric handkerchief to serve as a cap; she is reading. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island We will make our books of cambric, because that will be of lighter weight than paper, and I have stacks of old magazines filled with short stories and bright sayings. Heart of Gold Here she again stopped, drew from under her cloak a white cambric handkerchief, and, raising herself to her full height, held it spread out between her hands. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico She wore the white cambric dress which Annie had made for her. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World Cut a piece of cambric wrongly, and after all you do but lose the cambric: but deal wrongly with a human heart, and terrible mischief may ensue. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada The lady was clothed in a great robe of gold brocade, and her headcloth, of fine cambric, was turned so that her face was hidden. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Each demanded to see the invalid, and when ushered into the Flag Room was promptly set to work sticking pictures onto cambric pages. Heart of Gold A cambric manufacture was established here by Parliament, but failed; it was, however, the origin of that more to the north. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 They found Hester and Annie out in the garden picking flowers, and Nora, looking very happy and very pretty in her new pink cambric, was lying under a shady tree on the lawn. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World If you shrank to your soul's dimensions you might wander lost for a century on the point of a cambric needle. Despair's Last Journey Next came a lot of gentleman's handkerchiefs marked in the same way, and with them half a dozen thread cambric, lace-bordered handkerchiefs, evidently intended for a lady's use, and without mark. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 "Your ladyship scarcely gave me time," says Trimmins, demurely, taking an exhaustive survey of her cambric apron. Molly Bawn But I will not blaze cambric and crape in the public eye like a disconsolate widower, that most affected of all characters. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III I promised to make them, and I thought I had the cambric and embroidery in my trunk, but when I looked I found I had left it all behind me at school. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World She spoke with a smiling vivacity, but she set a delicate little trifle of lace and cambric to her eyes, and then looked up and smiled again. Despair's Last Journey Rosamund herself opened the wardrobe and took out a quantity of beautiful dresses of all sorts and descriptions, mostly white washing silks and muslins and cambrics. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls And extremely appropriate, too, dear," says Cecil, who has also got her nose buried in her cambric; "entirely carries out the character of the entertainment. Molly Bawn "And yet Master Winslow weareth cambric ruffs on occasion, and his dame hath a paduasoy kirtle and mantle, and so had Mistress Carver, and some others of our company." Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims How could she possibly raise the money necessary to the purchase of the cambric? Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World In an instant, this panther tore it out of his hand, as if in a state of ecstasy, nor ceased to roll over it till the cambric was in fragments. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals She chose a neat white cambric, and insisted on Irene putting it on. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls "You look to me as if you needed some cambric tea," Mrs. Rabbit said. The Tale of Peter Mink Sleepy-Time Tales Furlong, after shoving and elbowing his way through the crowd, suffering from heat and exertion, came fussing up to the sheriff, wiping his face with a scented cambric pocket-handkerchief. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes She would have not only to sell the ring, but also to buy the cambric and embroidery without anyone knowing anything about it. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World Each of these fairies was of the height of a small cambric needle and both together would not have weighed much more than the one-sixteenth part of four dewdrops. Second Book of Tales This covering removed, I found a white cambric handkerchief, inside of which was something hard. The Big Otter The fine cloths, linens, cambrics, cloth of gold and silver, tapestries and hangings, were the product of the looms of the Flemish cities. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England In the soft earth at the water's edge they discovered a spare paddle stuck upright and to it was tied a bit of cambric, her handkerchief. Every Man for Himself Suppose I make you a pink cambric frock, and a white one and a blue one? Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World A good three-quarters of a full-sized handkerchief is already in his mouth—a little more of the cambric and "death through suffocation" will adorn the columns of the Times in the morning. April's Lady A Novel His throat was open, and collar laid back; the wristbands of his shirt very large and white, and he flourished a white cambric handkerchief. Peter Simple He’s worse than that beastly water-spaniel of Sir Hercules’, who used to shake himself over my best cambric muslin. Poor Jack After the pattern has been tested, fitted and all necessary changes made, cut a pattern from the fitted waist of cambric or cheap new muslin and mark or trace all seams. Textiles and Clothing She was too weak to argue and protest, and the vision of her pretty little self in alternate dresses of pink and white and blue cambric was decidedly refreshing. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World He asked a lady for a cambric handkerchief. Ernest Bracebridge School Days The result of this difference is, that the flax in France is infinitely finer than in England, a circumstance which may account for the superiority of their lawns and cambrics. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 "Our high families never look into low places—chance if the commissioner has looked in here for years," says Tom, observing Madame Montford protect her inhaling organs with her perfumed cambric. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith Muslin—A cotton fabric of various classes and names; bleached and unbleached, half bleached, cambric, book muslin, long cloth, mull, organdie, lawns, etc.; used for all purposes. Textiles and Clothing The parcel of cambric arrived in due time, and Annie cut out the first of the three frocks that morning. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World There were cambrics, she heard, for one and ninepence, and cotton cloth home-made was so much cheaper than the imported, but you had to bleach it. A Little Girl in Old Salem Now fruitful autumn lifts his sunburnt head, The slighted Park few cambric muslins whiten, The dry machines revisit Ocean's bed, And Horace quits awhile the town for Brighton. Highways and Byways in Sussex Folding-doors in the background.—Enter the Author,” our Theogonist in person, “obsequiously preceded by a French Valet, in white silk Jacket and cambric Apron.” Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The pupils should consider whether their aprons shall be white or coloured, and whether they shall be of muslin, cambric, or gingham. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools I don't mind where you get it; and then you are to buy me seven yards of pink cambric, and seven yards of white cambric, and seven yards of blue cambric. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World No one was thinking at that day of the mills that would dot New England, where cotton cloths, calicoes, and cambrics would be turned out by the bale. A Little Girl in Old Salem The white cambric of the handkerchief was stained crimson with blood. The Hand in the Dark Amid all these tones of spring, joyous themes, light and graceful forms, the sunlight went to Cara's bed, and, from the white cambric on which she was lying, increased the paleness of her yellow hair. The Argonauts Near Lille is Cambrai, the chief place of manufacture for that finer class of linens known as cambrics. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) And then Terry would sit on a stool beside her, and embroider a letter on one of Granny's new cambric pocket-handkerchiefs. Terry Or, She ought to have been a Boy There were no marks or initials upon it whatever; it was simply a cambric handkerchief with a narrow hemstitched border, a handkerchief such as anyone might use. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls You were as white as your cambric handkerchief. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author She wore a short, embroidered dress of cambric, and her fiery tresses were on her shoulders. The Argonauts Stern necessity, proverbially known as "the mother of invention," and practically the step-mother of ministers' daughters, had made me eke out the silken facings of the front with cambric linings for the back and sleeves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Yet they are happy, you say, those two gentle people perpetuating spring on canvas and cambric. The Spinner's Book of Fiction He used to wear an unbrushed long- skirted black coat, a badly fitting waistcoat, and knee-breeches, a voluminous white cambric cravat, generally soiled, and black worsted stockings, with low shoes and silver buckles. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis I recall the scent of the fine cambric to this day, and when I smell a like odour see a dead man lying on a snow-field. Dross Someone has said that if our attention is properly trained we should be able "to look at the point of a cambric needle for half an hour without winking." The Mind and Its Education Davis, a white cambric handkerchief tied to a short stick, and an honest face,—this last was the Colonel's,—we rode up to the Rebel lines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 A dark, checked-bordered handkerchief tied over a stiff, cambric frame, entirely envelops the head. Denmark Seated by the bedside was her husband; one hand clasping hers, in the other he held a cambric handkerchief, with which he occasionally wiped her languid brow. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II It was a union of the highest moral and material qualities; the most sublime contempt and the stiffest cambric. Tancred Or, The New Crusade A quaint old writer describes a class of persons who have souls so very small that "500 of them could dance at once upon the point of a cambric needle." Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) In the middle of the floor stood a stained coffin, lined with stiff, rattling cambric and cheap gauze, resting on uncovered trestles of wood. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Cut two pieces from gray cambric like Fig. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays "Oh, Bobby, it wasn't pink muslin that day; it was blue cambric." The Farringdons Cut the tissue paper or cambric the exact width of the ribbon which is to be used. Make Your Own Hats But when the king tried to draw the cambric through the eye of the needle, it would not pass, though it failed but very little. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Make the frame in three pieces, cover them with cambric, and fasten them to the front joist, and on the top board with long screws; arrange the curtain and scenery similar to the hall stage. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants Throw over them a large, dark-colored shawl, reaching to their knees, fasten it together in the back and pin on a tail made of cambric and stuffed. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays There are as many laurel bushes made out of pink muslin as out of blue cambric, when you come to that. The Farringdons Accordingly I had made an enormous bag out of cambric muslin, varnished with caoutchouc for protection against the weather. The Literary World Seventh Reader "Oh, yes, sir; it's an ordinary cambric handkerchief of good quality such as most ladies use." The Holladay Case A Tale The gentlemen should be attired in long, loose coats, made of bright-colored cambric, trimmed with the same material, of other colors. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants The target was a circle of black cambric, the snowballs were rubber balls covered with raw cotton and rolled in flour. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays But they were soon checked with a handkerchief of the broadest hem and of the finest cambric. Can You Forgive Her? "I can't think what has become of those fellows!" he exclaimed, breathlessly, as he wiped the moisture from his forehead with a cambric handkerchief. Raftmates A Story of the Great River The lawyer drew out his fine cambric handkerchief, and furtively wiped a slight dampness from his forehead. The Fruit of the Tree The front is covered with blue cambric, with a border of red, decorated with gilt stars. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants The Tin Soldiers—Long trousers of shiny blue cambric with red stripes at the sides. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays "Take my handkerchief," Vesta said, "you are cold," and passed over her cambric with a lace border. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Their coats were cloth, not brocade or velvet; their ruffles were cambric, not lace; their shoe-buckles were only silver; their hats were trimmed with braid, and neither with gold nor silver edging. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Mr. and Mrs. Totty were served with their invitation over a breakfast-table where meekness and humility were administered with the rolls and poured out with the weak cambric tea of the little ones. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World They are to be covered with white cloth, and ornamented with a border of red and blue cambric. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants My mother had taken hers from me with a devouring blush, and as if to hide it had thrust it beneath a pile of cambric ruffles on the table. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. The amount of tea or dirt, or both, which is leaving the carpet and taking refuge in your little square of cambric will surprise you when you see it. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Float two cambric needles on water and name them. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk "Eagle," cried the latter, hurling the embroidered cambric at George's face. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside The pedestals are two feet high, covered with pink cambric, and bordered with green leaves and flowers. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants Andalusia demanded fine cloth and cambric in return for wines called "seckes," sweet oil, raisins, salt, cochineal, indigo, sumac, silk and soap. The Age of the Reformation He slowly drew from the poke of his warmus a white cambric handkerchief, which he blinked at for a minute, and then replaced, venting an audible sigh. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Now the said duster was of the finest cambric; so that Alec could not help seeing that she was making game of him. Alec Forbes of Howglen Perchance a mosquito-bite may induce him to remove it with a little warm water and a cambric pocket-handkerchief. Post-Prandial Philosophy The young lads' costume consists of a short coat, buttoned snugly over the breast, made of light pink cambric. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants First Mikey, with huge white cambric stork wings, hopped upon the stage of sward and deposited the brown-wrapped Suckling in a hollow log in the center, and departed flapping. The Heart's Kingdom Moreover, her fine cambric shirt embellished with bright flowers and gold ornaments fitted so closely as to betray the outlines of her harmonious figure. The Poor Plutocrats Beyond a hole of half an inch in diameter, to which Home drew attention, the cambric was unharmed. Historical Mysteries It was a handkerchief of fine cambric, in one corner of which was embroidered a name, which I could easily read in the moonlight, "Ysidria." The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria A triumphal arch, made in three parts, of wood, covered with green cambric, and decorated with flowers, will also be wanted. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants The strangers' house is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. Ideal Commonwealths Here the happy, smiling girl drew from her basket a number of frills and wristlets, a worsted-worked candle mat, and a cambric handkerchief, in one corner of which she had ingeniously worked Angeline's name. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family "Will the petticoat be a petticoat?" she asked, and wondered excitedly into what beauty Suzanna's imagination would transmute this ordinary piece of cambric. Suzanna Stirs the Fire She stooped, and took the hem of her cambric gown from between the girl's fingers, and then went quickly into the house. John Ward, Preacher After these have been arranged, lay strips of blue cambric across them; cover them entirely, and between the bars of wood let the cambric festoon so as to represent the appearance of waves. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants Thirty thousand pounds more is expended in muslin, holland, cambric, and calico. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish He was carrying something tenderly in a red cambric handkerchief. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade These dresses may be made of black cambric, worn with the glazed side turned in. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Sara did not mind the square piece of cambric, which Juliet often used to carry small handfuls of earth from one place to another. Autumn A trap door should be cut in the centre of the stage, and a circle cut in the centre of the cambric, to admit the body of Venus. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants His country weaver must not only have frieze and linen in his loom, but satin and cambric. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish She wears a gown of rich silk, opening in front to display a chemisette of the most delicate cambric, which is scarcely less delicate than her skin. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 If a more satiny look than cheesecloth gives is wished, let the overdresses be of light-colored cambric with the glazed side turned outward. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People The fire-irons were dressed in something that looked like Jaeger and the tassels of the blinds hung in yellow cambric bags. Great Possessions Blue cambric, with white clouds and gold stars, will answer the purpose. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants I'll have you some cambric tea and fry you some hot cakes in a jiffy. Honey-Sweet See him now, in his full-buttoned wig, and best cambric neckerchief, looking out for the king and his suit, who are coming on board the 'Nazeby.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 The maidens of Merrymount can wear dresses of cambric, made on the simplest possible lines. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People |
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