Spencer turned and began to pace the deck in distraught agitation, oblivious to his interference as weary seamen worked around him to drag rolls of broadcloth next to the gunwales, stacking them for others to hoist and stow in the pinnace.
Rolls of broadcloth lay stacked along the waist of the ship, and beside them were muskets and a keg of powder.
Sure enough, there were the sleeves of that garment dangling below the skirts of his broadcloth frock-coat!
Lincoln was usually clad "in a black broadcloth suit, nothing in his dress betokening disregard of conventionality, save perhaps his neat cloth slippers, which were doubtless worn for comfort.
He was attired in a fine broadcloth suit, silk hat, and polished boots.
His tent was bristling with swords and crowded with other officers of the King in scarlet broadcloth and gold lace.
One stood, even now, in front of Patience--a most gallant gentleman in scarlet broadcloth and gold lace, holding his cocked hat in his hand and smiling down at the little girl.
He had inherited quite a fortune, but he lived in a simple way and was fonder of children and the sea than of wearing fine broadcloth and having a coach.
The gentleman, very fine indeed in his blue broadcloth and gold lace, stepped into the little shop now, and behind him were other gentlemen in the uniform of the Colonies.
He wore a long black broadcloth coat, a waistcoat of the same material, and baggy gray trousers.
But I can carry a whole piece of wet broadcloth just the same.
I exchanged my grey pauper suit for a broadcloth of a young nabob, which I accidentally found in one of the chambers of a fashionable hotel, in Court street.
This beautiful creature was standing behind her mother; she had just drawn on a pair of broadcloth pants, and was in an attitude of graceful and charming perplexity, unaccustomed as she was to that article of dress.
The situation seems to be that we are now face to face with new generalizations.
I should not say with Professor Cohen that "the same thing may present different essences in different contexts.
She is as capable of wearing and enjoying broadcloth and ostrich plume as My Lady, whose income is eight dollars a minute.
The shopgirl, organizing her life on the basis of eight dollars a week, wears flimsy for broadcloth and the tail feather of a rooster for an ostrich plume.
He was dressed in a blue broadcloth coat with flaps and revers of same, trimmed with large beautiful buttons.
One of his most masterly speeches was made on economical and financial subjects; and yet in order to get his blue broadcloth coat with brass buttons from the tailor-shop to wear while making the speech, he had to borrow twenty-five dollars.
The latter was arrayed in broadcloth and fine linen, and crowned with a beaver hat.
Most of them sat in broadcloth and silk hats, expectorating with a delivery at once exact and impressive.
Her clothes were dowdy, for she had turned the broadcloth dress she had had at her marriage and was wearing it in the street; but if he thought her well dressed, it seemed hardly fair to undeceive him.
While Gabriella waited, shivering a a little, for the air was sharp and her broadcloth dress was not warm, she amused herself planning a future which appeared to consist of inexhaustible happiness.
Very terrible were some of the tales, grimly humorous the others, and the men in broadcloth and fine linen who told them had played their parts in them.
He had entered it by that very road, a beggar on foot and in rags; he was leaving it in broadcloth and fine linen, visible tokens of his altered fortunes.
Long, black locks swept the collar of his coat, while his tall, spare figure was habited in sleek broadcloth and spotless linen.
No, the man had not changed--he had grown older certainly, but age had not come ungracefully; he became the glossy broadcloth and spotless linen he wore.
I had cast about to select a team; and was soon seated, well rolled in broadcloth and bear-skin, behind four dark bays that might have done credit to a better judgment.
His black broadcloth suit with a velvet collar and cuffs fitted his slight figure to perfection and yet failed to be impressive.
Andy, arrayed in a suit of broadcloth which he had appropriated from Norton's wardrobe in his absence, was waiting for Tom with evident impatience.
Broadcloth should be cut with reference to the way the nap runs.
If shoes are worn through on the sides, in the upper-leather, slip pieces ofbroadcloth under, and sew them around the holes.
Probably she was speculating in her own mind what a person who rode so fine a horse, and wore so comfortable a broadcloth dress, could have to cry about.
A riding-habit of stout broadcloth was pronounced indispensable to my equipment.
Was Alice too terribly right when she had talked about armor turning into broadcloth because of her selfish desire to remain a kid a little longer?
He little knew that his kindness to Tootles had made Joan believe that he had exchanged his armor for broadcloth and put her in a "who cares?
Broadcloth was woven in those days, but not very commonly, for it needed a specially constructed loom and two weavers, one for each side, because of the width of the cloth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broadcloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
