The tip end of the cambric went through the eye, but the piece could not be pulled further.
I haven't even a clean cambric handkerchief, nor a tooth-brush!
Faddle packed up all his things; and, as his cambric handkerchiefs and kid gloves entirely filled one portmanteau, some notion may be formed of the quantity of luggage which it was absolutely necessary for him to take.
Eberhard Ludwig raged, Wilhelmine laughed, but Zollern looked grave, and spoke of the Prussian letter of royal protection, and of the beauty and safety of Schaffhausen.
It were fitting to await our guest's arrival, Madame, before you strip the tree,' said the Duke coldly.
A cambric apron, gloves, a pair of purple stockings, and a stomacher!
Holland for shirts, cambric for bands; what is't you lack?
Do this, and I will give thee for thy pains My cambric apron and my Romish gloves, My purple stockings and a stomacher.
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.
Then we each put on a fresh dress, except myself, as I preferred to have a linen cambric worn several times before, to a clean one not quite so nice, for that can do good service when washed.
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.
She brought in a furious savour of musk, which drove the odours of onions and turf-smoke before it; and she waved across her wretched angular mean scarred features an old cambric handkerchief with a yellow lace-border.
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.
He's worse than that beastly water-spaniel of Sir Hercules', who used to shake himself over my best cambric muslin.
She therefore pulled out a cambric handkerchief, and while her ladyship scolded, she covered up her face and wept.
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.
One width of scarlet cambric twenty-six inches long, used just as it comes, will make the jacket.
Cut all of these from bright-colored cambric of a size to fit the monkey.
Make Santa Claus's cap of a piece of scarlet cambric twelve inches wide and seventeen inches long; tie one end with a string into a tassel; then pin the cap on top of the face opening (Fig.
I have never beheld anything that so closely and humiliatingly resembled the battle on the cambric square under the big sweeting.
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.
She does as she is bid, then draws from her pocket the dainty little cambric handkerchief which she had for the ball.
Without thinking he takes the piece of cambric in his hand and examines the cunning stitches till his sister-in-law's laughing voice reaches his ears.
Constance nods, then goes through the arch and returns with a little phial of chloroform, and a fragment of cambric in her hand.
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.
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.
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.
Mr. Smithson heaved a profound sigh, and, bidding the Doctor farewell, hurried to the carriage, with hiscambric handkerchief to his eyes.
Joey looked very much as if my tender of the cambric had not been altogether superfluous.
Mrs. Moss's eyes filled as she saw the rusty band, and guessed why it was there; but she found it difficult to repress a smile when she beheld the cambric symbol of woe on the dog's neck.
Belinda sat with great dignity at the head, her hands genteelly holding a pink cambric pocket-handkerchief in her lap.
He could find nothing in his limited wardrobe with which to decorate Sanch except a black cambric pocket.
There was a little stand beside the bed, upon which were a phial containing medicine, a small book, and a clean white cambric handkerchief.
Michael, delightedly producing from his knapsack a clean white cambric handkerchief.
He held in his hand a fine white cambric handkerchief, which he wound carefully about the wounded arm.
Cambric chemisette, made quite up to the throat, and cambric under-sleeves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cambric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
