Next day he went out, and returned with a heap of linen to be washed.
A deep bed of hay was spread upon the floor, a coarse linen sheet thrown over it, and, with the soft fur covering, we had a sumptuous bed.
Beside the farmhouses were immense racks, twenty feet high, for the purpose of drying flax and grain, and at the stations the people offered for sale very fine and beautiful linen of their own manufacture.
On the road, we bought a quantity of the linen handkerchiefs of the country, at prices varying from twenty-five to forty cents a piece, according to the size and quality.
In the upper room there were beds, with linen fresh as youth and aromatic as spring; and the peace of a full stomach and a clear conscience descended upon our sleep.
And his mother had gone off shopping to buy linen for the house at Cushendhu, poplin for dresses, delft from Holland for the kitchen and glass from Waterford for the sideboard in the dining-room.
He has a yellow head of hair, and a linen emblem round it; a club of fury(?
Put it under your seat in the chariot, and a cloth of linen around it.
In the middle of the field is a wash-house, whither the inhabitants of this large town, rich and poor, send or carry their linen to be washed.
Clean linen was obtained, and their temporal and spiritual wants at once looked after.
And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.
But Peter rising up, ran to the sepulchre and, stooping down, he saw the linen cloths laid by themselves: and went away wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
Or those preposterous maidens sprinkling linen on the grass from watering-pots while the skies were full of rain?
They appeared to be a bridal party, but which of the two sisters, in buff linen 'clad from head to foot' was the bride, never became known.
I was under the necessity, likewise, of buying a linen coat, which cost only $3.
He wore a coat of coarse gray cloth, like that of a laborer, the collar of his rough linen shirt was turned down over a bright cotton scarf, which was carelessly tied around his neck.
It was hurriedly wrapped up in a linen cloth, and coffined.
The Church does not allow any woman, even a 'religious,' to wash the corporal and other linen which has been used in the Mass.
He greeted North cordially, and the latter observed that his friend's face was unusually flushed, and that beads of perspiration glistened on his forehead, which he frequently wiped with a large linen handkerchief.
Each word, he felt, had a dreadful significance; the big linen handkerchief went back and forth across his face as he sought to mop away the sweat that oozed from every pore.
Now, in the lavatory, immaculate with its white tile and modern appointments, I saw a shelf literally stacked, in this day of paper, with linen towels of the finest quality.
Since the linen worn before the camera is dyed a faint tint to prevent the halation caused by pure white, it was a sure sign to me that he had spruced up a bit.
He moved about nervously until the boy returned, putting away his new linen and fingering it delightedly as he did so.
She had come all the way in a day coach; her linen duster had become black with soot, and her black bonnet gray with dust, during the journey.
I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom, And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.
At the public fountain stout-armed women were washing family linen manifestly long unused to such manipulation.
I made a sign with thelinen of my turban, and called to the crew as loud as I could.
I called as loud as I could, and taking the linen from my turban, displayed it, that they might observe me.
A week before the French had had boot leather and linen issued to them, which they had given out to the prisoners to make up into boots and shirts for them.
At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began.
A Frenchman or a Russian prince incognito," said the officer, looking at Pierre's fine though dirty linen and at the ring on his finger.
The little striped hornet heats his nose with a spirit lamp and goes forth searching for the man with the linen pantaloons.
Later on he came into the parlor, wearing a linen ulster with the belt drooping behind him like the broken harness hanging to a shipwrecked and stranded mule.
One snowy morning they set out carrying a linen bag, and with a number of newspapers stuffed under their blouses.
A slip oflinen or calico is carefully cut to size and strapped on with strong tapes.
Gillenormand would not listen to any explanation, that for the purpose of making lint fine linenis not so good as coarse, or new so good as worn.
Much difficulty was found in keeping him from passing the whole night by Marius's side; he had his large easy-chair brought to the bed, and he insisted on his daughter taking the finest linen in the house to make compresses and bandages.
Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages: Nicolette sewed them and Basque rolled them.
Jean Valjean unfastened the black handkerchief that supported his right arm, undid the linen rolled round his hand, bared his thumb, and showed it to Marius.
Of these amours with a great lady, which are historically notorious, this sheet had remained to him as a waif or a souvenir; on his death, as it was the only fine linen at his lodgings, he was buried in it.
His black coat displayed the fatigued creases of a coat which has been up all night, and the elbows were white with that down which friction with linen leaves on cloth.
They came almost under his armpits, and were held up by broad linen braces, which, his sorrow diverted for the moment, he patted proudly.
Before taking the fork or the sickle in hand, he would hitch up his soutane, and reveal a pair of still active sacerdotal legs in white linen drawers.
If I did not give them plenty of maize they would eat a hundred francs' worth of linen in a single winter.
We then make our linen from the hemp, patch up the clothes, prepare the walnuts for pressing, and blanch the chestnuts.
He has placed a board across a wheelbarrow, and the heap of linen is upon this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
