But the housekeeper who chooses the better part covers her floor with linoleumat comparatively small cost, a piece good both in quality and design selling at 60 cents a square yard.
It is a wise plan in buying to allow enough linoleum for three smaller pieces to be placed before stove, table, and sink, thus saving wear and tear on the large piece.
When the linoleum backing is finished at the calender, both cloth and centre are forwarded direct to the linoleum works.
The linoleum on the floor and the American cloth on the table were equally bright.
The kitchen floor was scrubbed clean, and the linoleum with which it was covered shone gaily.
Bright, new linoleum everywhere -- in the kitchen as well as in our living-room.
Mrs. Forrest thinks there would be no danger of the linoleum havin' it, though.
New linoleum had been laid down over half the floor, and marks of the paint-brush were visible on the ceiling.
Under the orlop deck forward there is wooden panelling, with linoleumover the deck.
And the old woman in the curtained bed upstairs was almost as present to him as the girl kneeling before his eyes on the linoleum of the lobby.
A length of featureless linoleum led from the door to the table.
She "saved" her carpets by means of patches of linoleum, often stringy at the edges, and in some rooms there was more linoleum than anything else.
She was incapable of leaning back in a chair, and she regarded linoleum as one of the most satisfactory inventions of the modern age.
Then on the same side as the cleats tack the piece of cork or linoleum over the space between the strips of board, and as the cleats are one-half inch wide the linoleum should cover all the space left.
To use the spreading-board: Insert the pin with the butterfly on it into the linoleumjust far enough so that the body of the insect will be in the space between the boards up to the wings, Fig.
The cork or linoleum below the space will hold firmly the pin on which the butterfly is impaled.
A strip of cork or linoleum 17 inches long and a little less than an inch wide.
The unravelling tale slowly much as thick yarn with a kitten batting it, one event at a time in sepulchre movement down a linoleum floor.
Charcoal-grey cat agreeably on a green linoleum table with light basking in.
Cassy's dinner that night was served on rich linoleum and not out of snobbishness either but because the table had gone from the living-room and though the piano remained one could not very well dine on that, or, for that matter, on the sofa.
The rich linoleumthen had been abandoned for the other room where Cassy sat on the sofa and Lennox on the one surviving chair.
She says she's after finding little Mike asleep behind the roll of old linoleum under the bed in her room.
And he breathed the breath of the house--a dank savour rather than a smell--a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.
The dark green linoleum on the floor appeared a thought more worn, the old rug before the fireplace a thought more shabby--still, how well things lasted, in the old country!
When in the mournful order of things the Ark Royal comes to her end, and is sawed up, burned, or ground to pieces by the sea, that linoleum will perish as an integral part of the decks, for nothing will ever separate them.
The puzzle was how to lay the linoleum on worn decks.
A very slatternly woman was washing the linoleum in a corner of the floor.
On the second floor that same porter dropped the baggage on the linoleum and rattled the key in the lock with a high disregard of sleepers.
He went on upstairs, and then it suddenly occurred to him to ask himself what the spot on the linoleum might be.
Kemp's scientific pursuits have made him a very observant man, and as he recrossed the hall, he noticed a dark spot on the linoleum near the mat at the foot of the stairs.
Floor coverings are divided into two groups: The soft-surface fabrics are made from a variety of textile fibers including wool which is the one most widely used; and the hard surface fabrics, including linoleum and the felt-base prints.
Linoleum tops for tables and desks afford variety in color.
In addition, much linoleum now has a surface coat of nitrocellulose composition, which gives it a glossy surface practically non-markable and highly resistant to strong soaps and soda.
The linoleum may harmonize in color with the floor covering of the room adjoining or may carry out its own color scheme in keeping with the theme of the hall.
In making inlays the colored linoleum materials were formed into patterns by one of several hand or machine processes.
Suppose you were showing inlaid linoleum to an elderly woman, that finally you found a pattern to please her, and that upon learning your price she stated positively that she could buy the same pattern much cheaper at Blank's.
The basis of all linoleum maintenance is the same--a thorough cleaning with a mild soap, followed by waxing.
There was a time when linoleum was regarded purely as a utility, but that time has passed.
Here are some practical suggestions: Linoleum is increasingly used for the hall since it permits the user to express her originality and good taste in many interesting forms.
They tend to wear away the aluminium or linoleum plates fixed to the Skis under the foot, but on the other hand they are almost indispensable when Skis are carried across a hard, steep slope, or down an icy path.
Some sybarite even goaded us into getting up a fund for a strip of linoleum to be laid in the aisle between the beds.
But to me the strip oflinoleum made our hut look remotely like a real room in a real house: it was a touch of the conventional which I never cared for, and I only subscribed to it when I had voted against it and been overborne.
Linoleum was the material of it, an apotheosis of linoleum.
Roll after roll of linoleum arrived, and with gravers we cut them up, and tacked down the borders and the panels and the chess-board with that admirable and headless species of nail known as "little brads.
In a corner lay a rag of linoleum about six inches square, under this we placed the bathroom key and left the house.
Then there was a thrilling moment or two, when the tip-tap of shoes, and the swish of silk on the linoleum was quite loud, but the footsteps never halted.
Sheets of newspaper or brown paper should be laid all over a floor before linoleum is put down, otherwise it is almost impossible to get it off the floor when it is worn out.
They prevent linoleum or oilcloth from becoming worn in one or two spots, they are sometimes needed for warmth, and they are always needed to spare the feet and back of the person who does the kitchen work.
When linoleum begins to show wear a coat of spar-varnish or carriage varnish will restore it satisfactorily.
Oilcloth is less expensive than linoleum but is in no way so good.
Linoleum is easily cared for and with reasonable usage lasts well.
He has left two nail-marks from his boot upon your linoleum just where the light strikes it.
The corridor which led to the room was laid down with a kind of creamy linoleum which shows an impression very easily.
There was a rug over inlaid linoleum and a blazing fireplace.
The top of the elevator, now level with the floor, blended exactly with the linoleum tile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linoleum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: asphalt; clapboard; concrete; corduroy; cotton; fabric; material; nylon
