Her skirt was turned up, showing a striped, homespun petticoat, and beneath it her strong bare ankles.
But her toil-bent frame, her rough hands and coarse grey homespun dress could not quite hide the air of gentle dignity that clothed her.
There were check curtains drawn round it, and a patchwork-quilt, and rough, homespun linen.
Mademoiselle Thérèse was making up the bed with homespun linen, scented with rosemary and lavender, and the curé laid Minima down upon it with all the skill of a woman.
The wool socks were knitted on the plantation along with the homespun which was woven there.
Summertimes us wore homespun dresses, made wid full skirts sewed on to tight fittin' waisties what was fastened down de back wid buttons made out of cows and rams horns.
Ten yards was the average amount of cloth in a dress, homespun and gingham, the usual materials.
Big boys had clothes made out of jeans, but little boys wore homespun shirts.
The women took more pride in their neat homespun dresses than they did before the war in the possession of silks and satins.
Scraps of these rare dresses and also of the homespun dresses are found in the old scrap-books of the time.
And there was friendly rivalry between them in spinning and weaving the prettiest homespun as there was in making the whitest sugar, the cleanest rice, and the best wheat and corn.
Pillow-cases and sheets were cut up for clothes and were replaced by homespun substitutes, and window curtains were made into women's clothes.
He looked round at the well-mended fences, the clean ground, and the tokens of intelligent industry around, and the clean homespun shirt sleeves that spoke of the notable manager at home.
We may have stolen most of them; they may have been wrecked on our coast, and we may have smuggled them; but as long as they wear our native homespun clothes they are ours, and as soon as they put it off they cease to belong to us.
A plainer face and a more homespunfibre would have served the purpose equally well.
And beautiful young ladies that have had everything all their lives might--might not understand that a homespun old mother isn't wanting to force herself on them at all when they have company, and they have no call to fear it.
She wore a short cotton homespun petticoat and a dingy waist; while a limp pink cotton sunbonnet, pushed far back from her perspiring forehead, released unmanageable tufts of her stiff, iron-grey hair.
Heedless of the sheeting volleys of the rain and the fierce gusts which whipped her dripping homespun petticoat about her knees, she clambered skilfully down the rock wall to the ledge whereon Pichot had stood.
From smallest kittenhood the smell of a homespun shirt had stood to them for every kind of gentleness and shelter, so they saw no reason to find fault with the arms of Billy Smith.
As evidently as Pomona, in her homespun skirt and bodice, belonged to the farmhouse, so did he to the great castle near by.
He touched the coarse sheet, the patchwork quilt, then lifted the sleeve of the homespun shirt that covered his thin arm, and gazed inquiringly from it to the quiet woman.
She came just as she was, in her homespun dress and her rough shoes and with a cap on her head, but for all her mean clothing she was as pretty and fine as a flower, and the King was not slow to see it.
Dave's own hide had escaped, but his heavy jacket of homespun had had the back ripped clean out of it.
She've seen naught of the world and don't know the difference between silk and homespun or what's fitting for her.
Down the road toward the cabin came a man, in gray homespun and cowhide larrigans, with an axe over his shoulder.
Under their heavy blanket-coats were many thicknesses of homespun flannel.
Brides were proud to display a few cotton sheets instead of commonplace homespun linen.
Every day for two weeks she went early to the mill in her plain homespun dress, her straight hair neatly parted and smoothed over her ears.
Even the homespun suit could not wholly banish his native charm, for after it was once on he forgot its existence and wore it with an ease almost too oblivious to suit Celestina.
In anticipation of the visit Celestina had arrayed herself in a fresh print dress and ruffled apron and had compelled Willie to replace his jumper with a suit of homespun and flatten his locks into water-soaked rigidity.
Though there was little standardization in most features, eight bows usually supported the dull white homespun cover.
Applepie order was a condition of dress which he rarely knew, though he possessed a faultless homespun suit, in which he would have been happy to gang to the kirk on Sabbath, were that enjoyment practicable.
Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck.
The sacred image, indispensable to a Russian shop, is painted on the vaulted ceiling; the shrine lamp flickers in the open air, thus serving many aproned, homespun and sheepskin clad dealers.
And a bright picture of Arcadia the simple folk made, the men in homespun and the women with their brilliant shawls, as they stood on the bank laughing, calling to one another, and jesting like children.
By this time the spirit of independence of the outside world had begun to show itself in the Southern-made grey jeans of the soldiers, and in the homespun dress of Miss Hoyle.
Nor did I lose any time in adding to the package other articles of necessity, flannel and the best Georgia-made homespun I could procure, and was then ready to take the return train to Decatur.
Laying her upon a small bed in the room, her father cut away from her chest her homespun dress and made a hasty examination of the wound.
In the meantime the making of flannel garments, and homespun shirts with bosoms made of linen pillow-cases, was progressing with remarkable celerity.
The people were largely dressed in homespun cloth, and a spinning-wheel was to be found in every farm-house.
Squire Boone had a big farm, and kept five or six looms working in his house, making homespun clothes for his large family and to sell to his neighbors.
There," said Van, taking off his jacket, and flinging it on the grass, while Joel immediately followed suit with his little homespun one.
Mr. Atkins kept the store, and gave out coats and sacks of coarse linen and homespun to Mrs. Pepper to make; and it was the fear of losing the work that had made the mother's heart sink.
At that time I was called Olsson and nick-named Ox-Olle, because my father was a farmer and I was dressed in homespun clothes.
As I walked up the steps, you caught sight of my homespun clothes I presume, and noticing that I carried the nicest bouquet, you burst out: 'Is Saul also among the prophets!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homespun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
