The cotton was woven, loin cloths were worn, they had greater variety of calabashes, the huts were larger, the villages more regular.
And was this rich Asia of the spices, the elephants, the beautiful thin cloths and the jewels?
Stone and brick benches, covered with cloths and coarse carpets, were ranged along the walls, and there was a fireplace where coffee and chibouks were prepared, and cloths dried.
He had but twenty cloths or so left of the stock he had deposited with the man called sheriff, the half-caste, drunken tailor, who was sent by the British consul in charge of the goods.
You have cloths and hardware, and glassware and gunpowder, and those millions of natives have ivory and gums and rubber and dyestuffs, and in barter there is good profit!
But instead of doing this, he struck up a bargain with Stanley, and agreed to let him off for four cloths and ten necklaces of large beads.
Moumi will demand sixty cloths, and will wonder at his own magnanimity in asking such a small number of cloths from a great Musungu (white man).
If straining clothsare used they should be well rinsed in tepid water, washed and then boiled.
North of the New York City Milk Commission: "No coolers, aerators, strainingcloths or strainers should be used.
I have seen the exhausted coolies spread their dirty cloths on the surface, and form them into filters by sucking the water through them.
Lancelot found the palace all strown with rushes and hung about with curtains of rich cloths of silk, and the lords of the city all apparelled to do him homage.
M191) In Barcelona on the fourth Sunday in Lent boys run about the streets, some with saws, others with billets of wood, others again with cloths in which they collect gratuities.
Thus the royal family of Dahomey specially worships the leopard; some of the king's wives are distinguished by the title of Leopard Wives, and on state occasions they wear striped clothsto resemble the animal.
Withal, the stimulus to manufacturing was almost purely artificial, and the Spanish cities, even Barcelona, found competition with foreign cloths and other goods too keen.
A great variety of cloths and fabrics was made, as also pottery, barrels, rope, glass, and many other articles of practical utility.
When all these things were prepared, the magician deposited the swine's head at the foot of a tree, dressed it with the cloths of five colours, fastened on the large baling, and passed the whole of three nights in meditation.
She met Milly with a pail of hot water andcloths to wash the glass.
I set by Pa fanning him an' putting cloths on his head.
She borrowed buckets andcloths and impressed George Holt for the cleaning of the school building which she superintended.
The cloths are in general woven with the plain weave, and the fabric may be all white, striped or cheeked with red, blue or other coloured threads; the checked cloths are the most common.
Then, with a little laugh at my fears, she drew them herself, only to discover other and yet finer cloths lying over the forms upon the stone bench.
I withdrew the grave-cloths and there, clasped heart to heart, were a young man and a blooming girl.
Sometimes yarns or cloths have to be passed through a soap bath after being dyed in order to brighten up the colours or develop them in some way.
In this method a semi-cylindrical copper plate is heated in a suitable furnace to a bright red heat, the cloths are rapidly passed over it, and the loose fibres thereby burnt off.
Singeing by passing the cloths over a row of Bunsen burners has come largely into use.
Now, unless the bleach has been thorough, the whites will be more or less stained permanently, and to avoid this cloths which are to be printed with alizarine colours are most thoroughly bleached.
Cotton cloths or paper are passed through these solutions of various degrees of strength according to requirements, they are then passed through rollers which causes the surface to become more compact.
Usually in this kind of work the cloths are printed with mordant colours, and then dyed in a bath of the dye-stuff.
The singe obtained by the plate and roller is good, the principal fault being that if the cloths happen to get pressed down too much on the hot plate the loose ends are not burnt off as they should be.
Footnote 126: The velvets and scarlet cloths from Mecca were probably Italian manufactures, brought through Egypt and the Red Sea.
His country is large and fertile, having great abundance of rice, and manufactures much silk, and cloths of cotton.
Ten days after this cross was removed, water gushed from the hole in which it was formerly fixed, in which cloths being dipped wrought many miraculous cures.
From hence they send great quantities of cotton cloths and much rice, all over India, Pegu, Malacca, Sumatra, and other places.
In this district there is a great trade carried on in cotton, and cloths made of cotton, and great store of drugs.
When once this great step was decided upon, preparations had to begin at once, and in earnest, for long white cloths to cover the shelves had to be bought and made, to make them look clean and dainty.
Pantry knife-cloths should be of a strong and durable material.
It is of essential importance that cloths should be marked and numbered.
These various Drinks may all be taken cold; Linen Cloths dipt in cold Water and Vinegar of Roses may be applied to the Forehead, the Temples, or all over the Head, which is equivalent to every other Application used upon such Occasions.
Then a Pint of Vinegar is to be added, and Flanels or other woollen Cloths dipt in the Fomentation, and wrung out, are to be applied to the Part affected.
Linen or Flanel Cloths dipt in warm Water may be applied over the Breast, and upon the Belly; and he should regularly drink the Almond Milk No.
On board his bark he goes straight to London, beneath the bridge; his merchandise he there shows, his cloths of silk smooths and opens out.
Some of the 18th-century paintings depicting tea tables with cloths do deal with the morning hours, as indicated by their titles or internal evidence, as in The Honeymoon (fig.
Cloths may also be seen in pictures in which the time of day cannot be determined.
At the top of the pillow is a small apartment, which they call a pavillion, and over that a white flag, which I concluded to be hoisted as a remembrance of Buonaparte, being very like the table-cloths I noticed at Callous.
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