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Example sentences for "haircloth"

Lexicographically close words:
haint; hair; hairbrained; hairbreadth; hairbrush; haircut; haird; hairdresser; hairdressers; hairdressing
  1. The first coats should be rubbed with haircloth or curled hair, and the last with powdered pumice stone and raw linseed or crude oil.

  2. Rub the first coats with haircloth and the final coat with pulverized pumice and crude or linseed oil.

  3. Polish the first coats with haircloth or curled hair, and the last with pulverized pumice stone, mixed with raw linseed or crude oil.

  4. I suppose it's because the old clock and the haircloth sofa are in it.

  5. On the haircloth sofa were several crazy-work cushions.

  6. Ilyin, who had been eating veal and cucumbers placed near him on the haircloth sofa, briskly wiped his hands on his coat, and began to put down one card after another.

  7. In a few moments he gave up the effort, floated back to the duskiest corner of the loft, and settled himself, much disconcerted, on the back of an old haircloth sofa which had lately been banished from the sitting-room.

  8. There would be a squeak, a brief scuffle; and Hushwing would float back downily to devour his prey on his chosen perch, the back of the old haircloth sofa.

  9. Perhaps it was because they were in the awful parlor,--that carpeted room of haircloth furniture, which was so seldom opened.

  10. I minded to put the Haircloth and Cord under my Farthingale, and one or two of the smaller Books in my Pouch, as alsoe some Sweets and Suckets such as he was used to love.

  11. Hereon, I minded me to slip off the Haircloth and Rope, and give the same to him, along with the Books and Suckets, all which he hid away privatelie, making merry at the last.

  12. Hair sieve, a strainer with a haircloth bottom.

  13. And it happened that a point of the haircloth scratched his lip deeply, with a long trickling of blood upon the chin.

  14. Hastily he donned the ashen-grey mantle, the rough haircloth about the throat, and went through the preliminary matter.

  15. Calvin here alludes to the haircloth worn by the monks of some orders, and other Roman Catholic devotees, instead of the ordinary shirt.

  16. At St John of the Lateran, at Rome, they boast of having his haircloth mentioned in the Gospels.

  17. They're in there week days jest the same as Sunday; I declare, I really think our haircloth set is showin' signs o' wear!

  18. In this parlor were six haircloth chairs and a sofa to match.

  19. At first they were received with loving arms, and there were donation parties where cider was spilled on the floors, doughnuts ground into the carpets, and several haircloth chairs hopelessly wrecked.

  20. On two of the haircloth chairs rested a coffin.

  21. Flora had thrown down her bonnet and shawl upon the haircloth sofa, where she now hastily placed mine, after disrobing me with her own hands.

  22. And the women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets.

  23. And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

  24. Then Miss Carter crossed to the black haircloth sofa and seated herself, smoothing out her skirts.

  25. A swift glance at the spider-legged furniture caused John to choose the haircloth sofa, whose shining surface bulged substantially.

  26. In the little haircloth trunk back in her room lay an old scrap-book.

  27. I wonder what takes the place to a man of a woman's haircloth trunk?

  28. And there's an old haircloth trunk that I've had since I was a girl.

  29. Mrs. Hunt sat rocking in one of the haircloth rockers, Mrs. Otway in the other.

  30. She gave her bonnet and cape to her granddaughter and led the way to the semi-darkened parlor where she established herself in a haircloth rocking-chair while Miss Dorothy seated herself upon the sofa.

  31. Your grandmother Craddock's haircloth trunk is strapped on behind her carriage there, and Rufus will drive you home.

  32. Then I thought intently back into the past and into the haircloth trunk and wrote, "Clothes, one hundred and fifty dollars.

  33. He drew near to it with naked feet, and with haircloth about his body.

  34. He wore haircloth with an iron cuirass, lived on bread and water and herbs.

  35. I don't see how they're going to get Aunty's silk gown and a ring like mine and a haircloth parlour suit and publish a book with less than two hundred dollars, do you?

  36. But the old haircloth scratched her bare feet, and poor Patty soon jumped up and sought another resting-place.

  37. The chairs were stiff and straight, and there was a haircloth sofa with a small, square pillow at each end and one in the middle.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haircloth" 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