The vicar looked at the clock in the dining-room, and saw at once, by the way the gauze which protected it from dust had been moved, that his landlady had opened the face of the dial and set the hands in advance of the clock of the cathedral.
When we entered the ball-room we found Cousin Jehoiakim already dancing with a red-haired young lady, in a blue gauze dress.
Seeing us, and wishing to astonish us, he attempted a quadruple pigeon-wing, which unfortunately entangled his great feet in the blue gauze dress, and ended in his own subversion and the dismemberment of the thin gauze.
The surgeon squeezed the flesh above and about the wound, the quick-fingered young nurse flushed the cavity with an antiseptic wash, then clean, dry gauzewas pushed into it and slowly pulled out again.
As the last bit of gauze packing was drawn from the wound, the greenish pus followed and streamed into the pan.
First the gauze stuffed into the cavity had to be pulled out.
With her right hand she holds a light gauze against her breast.
For bringing caterpillars home, a larvae box is necessary; this should, if possible, be made of a cylinder of wire gauze or perforated zinc (see Fig.
The breeding cage itself need not be used, but only the tray, provided that gauze is stretched over in such a manner as to allow room for the moth to dry its wings on emergence.
Wire gauze cylinders are handy as affording plenty of air to delicate larvae.
Miss Ethel Larcombe's gauze fans are attractive compositions, which bear tokens of a diligent appreciation of Granville Fell.
Well, I shall wear my red gauze over satin, and I fancy Peggy will not choose a very simple frock for the occasion.
As she began putting away her rolls of gauze a thoughtful look came over her face.
Feeling the pain and seeing the red ooze up through the bandage, he struggled briefly with unwelcome recollections, then on a sudden impulse tore off the enfolding gauze and flung it angrily into the fireplace.
There was a shaggy diaphanous flower of silver gauze to wear on the shoulder, and the shoes that went with it were silver kid, well cut and severe.
He moved toward her, holding out both hands, but she turned as if she had not noticed and took a step away from him on the gravel, dropping the gauze veil before her face.
Under her gauze veil the pearls in her headdress twinkled like stars against hair that was black as night.
It had neither glass nor shutters nor parchment, only a gauze curtain to discourage insects, iron bars to keep out larger intruders.
The night air blew through thegauze curtains, and he felt a wonderful aliveness all over his body.
To protect herself from the insects, Sophia wrapped her shawl around her bare shoulders and drew her gauze veil over her face.
Streamers of baby-ribbon fell in graceful lines about the curtains, while the gauze mosquito-bar was decorated with the medals he had won for bravery.
The only sure remedy is the box covered with gauze or glass.
A box, with gauze or a pane of glass over the top, is a certain remedy in every case; it also greatly promotes the growth of the young vines.
Silk gauze was a prominent and extensive industry in the west of Scotland during the second half of the 18th century, but on the introduction of cotton-weaving it greatly declined.
In addition to its use for dress purposes silk gauze is much employed for bolting or sifting flour and other finely ground substances.
The only gauze fit to wear is English, at a crown a yard; so that really a guinea goes no further than a copper with us.
At dawn, in autumn, the Golden Horn is almost always covered by a light fog, behind which the city is seen vaguely, like those gauze curtains that descend upon the stage to conceal the preparations for a scenic spectacle.
The whole structure is first covered with white cloth, and then draped with curtains of white gauze and cloth of gold.
He is clothed in white, and over his ordinary garments he wears a mantle of gauze decorated with gold and silver spangles.
Curtains of green gauze hung before the windows, and the fierce sunlight filtering through gave the room a strangely translucent effect.
She was wearing a black lace dress with a glittering spangled scarf of Indian gauze floating about her.
With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features.
All that has to be done is to clap the open bottle over the captive while still in the net, then draw the gauze or what-not over the mouth of the bottle until the bung can be inserted, and the whole affair withdrawn from the net.
These were mostly placed singly on the leaves or other parts of a plant of heart's-ease (Viola tricolor), but some were laid on the gauze cover of the cage.
The best plan is to capture a few females and enclose them in roomy, wide-mouthed bottles, or a gauze cage, putting in with them a sprig or two of the food-plant placed in a holder containing water.
The mouth of the bottle should be covered with gauze or leno, and a bit of moistened sugar put on the top outside.
It was one she had netted for her mother; and the border was spread out in the shape of a fan--the fashion then--and trimmed with yellow gauze ribbon.
One evening something or other caused one of the soirees to break up midway, and Mrs. Knox came home by twilight in her pink gauze gown.
The soiree to-night was at Rose Villa; and Mrs. Knox, attired in a striped gauze dress and the jangling ornaments she favoured, stood to receive her guests.
I twisted the gauze scarf which was about my neck around them and carried them out that way.
She wrapped it up in her gauze scarf and carried it off as stealthily as a conspirator in a melodrama.
A tight barrel with a cover made of wire gauze fitting closely over the top is a good device.
The windows should be closed withgauze netting tacked over them, and the doors should also be made tight so as to prevent the escape of the insects.
A few large glass jars capable of being closed with a gauzetop are necessary, though in the case of the Hymenoptera reliance must be mainly placed upon finding the larvae in their nests.
The larvae should be tied up in sacks of light gauze netting, and a label of tough paper with the date and locality of capture, and the name, if known, written with a lead pencil, should be attached to each such little sack.
For this purpose a scoop made of wire gauzemay also be advantageously employed.
By confining impregnated females of many species of butterflies and moths in nets of gauze drawn over the branches of the food-plant, it is often possible to obtain their eggs in considerable numbers.
Crape or gauze is a substitute for coloured glass.
If there are cups and no teapot, the leaves may be put into the pot, previously enclosed in a loose gauze or muslin bag to prevent their floating about.
For want of a glass roof to place over the mercury a piece of gauze stretched over the vessel will answer very tolerably for the purpose of keeping off the wind.
India, as I am informed by Major Moor and Captain Green, even have recourse to fire-flies, which they inclose in gauze and use as ornaments for their hair when they take their evening walks.
They are there called Mantas blancas, and creeping between the threads of the gauze curtains that keep off the former pest, though they do not bite, occasion an itching that is dreadfully tormenting[202].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
