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Example sentences for "coarse cloth"

  • Crush the currants in a stone vessel with a wooden beetle, and strain them through a clean, coarse cloth, over the sugar.

  • Strain through a coarse cloth, pressing and wringing it hard.

  • Squeeze the grapes hard in a coarse cloth, when you have picked them from the stems.

  • He determined it would do no harm to try an experiment, however.

  • I shall soon be a young lady like Bess and Gertie, over at Glengrove.

  • A thousand ills might befall a young girl with a face like yours.

  • I beseech you to say 'Yes' to the last request I shall ever make of you.

  • Cover and bake it; lay it on a coarse cloth to drain, and when cold put it in a pot that will just hold it, and cover with clarified butter.

  • Put it in a coarse cloth after it is rolled; twist it at each end to get out the fat, and bind it well round with broad tape; in that state let it remain three days.

  • Tie or sew up the ham in a coarse cloth, put it into a sack, and bury it three or four feet under ground, for three or four days before you dress it.

  • Put them in a pan; cover with clarified butter; bake them an hour and season them well; remove the butter after they are baked; take them out of their gravy, and lay them on a coarse cloth to drain.

  • Roll it tight in a coarse cloth, and press it under a large weight: hang it to dry in a wood smoke, but turn it upside down every day.

  • The best way of doing this is to cover the whole head and neck with a coarse cloth or canvas, which may be brought down and fastened round the waist.

  • Have ready six large carrots scraped and sliced; strain the soup on them, and stew them till soft enough to pulp through a hair sieve or coarse cloth, with a wooden spoon; but pulp only the red part of the carrot, and not the yellow.

  • Smelts must be only rub'd with a coarse Cloth, and then flour'd, and thrown into the Pan.

  • A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc.

  • Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

  • Roll it up tightly in a coarse cloth, and press it under a large weight; have it smoked, and turn it upside down every day.

  • Scrape and cut the carrots thin, strain the soup on them, and stew them till soft enough to pulp through a hair sieve or coarse cloth; then boil the pulp with the soup, which should be of the consistency of pea-soup.

  • Well wash them, rub off the skins with a coarse cloth, and put them into boiling water salted in the above proportion.

  • A clean, coarse cloth, hot suds, and a good scrubbing-brush, will simplify the operation.

  • In making a grate or stove fire, keep a coarse cloth to lay before it, that ashes may not spoil the carpet; and wipe about the fire-place with a damp, coarse cloth.

  • The Kersey of early history was a coarse cloth, known under different names, and before knitting was used for stockings.

  • Coarse cloth of linen and wool used as skirtings by the British peasantry.

  • A coarse cloth of flax and tow, made in America of cotton, in checks or plaids, and used for furniture covering and mattress making.

  • The ironing-blanket should be made of a thick kind of flannel, called swan's-skin, and a coarse cloth should be spread between it and the board.

  • Wash your bodies as well as your faces, rubbing them all over with a coarse cloth.

  • Six or eight hours will smoke them, and there should be only a little sawdust and wet straw burnt to do this; but if put into a baker's chimney, sew them in a coarse cloth, and hang them a week.

  • When dry, rub off the loose dye with a coarse cloth.

  • Damsons and plums should be pricked with a needle, and peaches washed with a weak lye, and then rubbed with a coarse cloth to remove the fur.

  • Well wash them, rub off the skins with a coarse cloth, and put them in boiling water salted.

  • First remove all dust and mold by wiping with a coarse cloth; soak it for an hour in cold water, then wash it thoroughly.

  • Afterwards put them into a cullender or sieve, wash them well through cold water, and then wipe them all dry with a coarse cloth.

  • Rub off the outer skin with a coarse cloth, and then lay them in salt and water for a week, changing the brine every other day.

  • Rub each one with a coarse cloth to clear off the skin, it being too thin for paring.

  • Strain, squeezing the meat to a tasteless mass in a coarse cloth.

  • Put them in a coarse cloth, and press out most of the juice into a bowl.

  • Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.

  • A short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant.

  • The remainder of the combs from which the honey has been thus drained, together with those which contained the bee-bread and brood, must be put into a coarse cloth or bag, and squeezed or pressed to get all the honey out.

  • When it is melted, run it through a coarse cloth or bag made for the purpose, and put it into a press to separate the wax from the dross.

  • Set the mixture near the fire, and allow it to macerate for a short time; after straining through a sieve or coarse cloth, it may be given and repeated at discretion.

  • It is turned and rubbed frequently with a hard, coarse cloth, to prevent moulding or breeding mites.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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