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Example sentences for "blue cotton"

  • It was the vigilante, a good-looking white-bearded man clad in blue cotton.

  • In the other the portly father wrought at his hand-loom, weaving the strong dark-blue cotton material so much in use locally.

  • They are half naked, too, or clothed only in long robes of blue cotton; as they pass, they salute us with humble bows.

  • Hidden by ample drapery of blue cotton stuff, the man who moves the puppets stands on a stool.

  • In winter the men of the lower classes wear, beneath their kirimon or dressing-gown, a tight fitting vest and pair of trousers of blue cotton stuff, and the women one or more wadded cloaks.

  • He brings with him a few piastres, a piece or two of blue cotton stuff, often some little seaman's venture, that the wife proceeds to dispose of on his departure.

  • Their uniform is made of blue cotton stuff, striped with white across the shoulders, and consists of a tight-fitting pair of trousers, and a shirt like that worn by the followers of Garibaldi.

  • All the houses had been removed from it, and a mock city wall with five gates built across it by means of dark-blue cotton, with white chalk lines to simulate the joins of the blocks of stone.

  • Like the automobile we had hired a day or two before, it was driven--by two young men in blue cotton tights--at too high a speed considering the narrowness and curliness of the roads by which we crossed the passes.

  • Both sexes in the district wear over their kimonos blue cotton trousers, something like a plumber's overall only tighter in the legs.

  • These peasants have a half savage air, half naked too, or clothed only in long robes of blue cotton; as they pass, they salute us with humble bows.

  • From day to day the number of silk gowns, blue cotton gowns, slanting eyes, and queues increases.

  • An evil-looking rabble, dressed in sheepskins or blue cotton rags, still swarms in some of the houses.

  • They all wear silver or pewter ornaments tied round their necks by a wisp of blue cotton.

  • She is dressed in a much ornamented bark-cloth dress, and wears two silver beads tied round her neck by a piece of blue cotton, in addition to very large earrings.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue cloth; blue colour; blue cotton; blue cross; blue devils; blue flag; blue flowers; blue ground; blue light; blue line; blue paper; blue ruin; blue steel; blue vitriol; blue water; come around; come nigh; customs duties; good nurse; just possible; kept perfectly; lower voice; microwave radio relay links; peace establishment; under each; your duty