Thanks to Mrs. Cooke, our visit to Mohair was a pleasant one.
He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
I was settling down delightedly to my old, easy, and unmolested existence when Farrar and I received an invitation, which amounted to a summons, to go to Mohair and make ourselves generally useful.
At first he was eyed with suspicion and disgust as he drove off to Mohair in his Hempstead cart, and was called many hard names.
A few days later I ran over to Mohair and found my client with the colored Sunday supplement of a Chicago newspaper spread out before him, eyeing the page with something akin to childish delight.
He's off to Mohair now, sir," said the valet, with a salute.
The odds being overwhelming, the master of Mohair had at length fallen a victim to his own good cheer.
Not long ago a certain young lady came to Mohair and found there a young author of note with whom she had had some previous acquaintance.
After that, I doubt if the court of Charles the Second was regarded by the Puritans with a greater abhorrence than was Mohair by the good ladies of Asquith.
We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
The brilliantine and mohair do not feel as soft as the wool serges or cashmeres, but rather more wiry.
From a well-bred flock of Angora ewes the mohair should average about four pounds weight per animal.
The decrease in the exports of wool and mohairfor the year 1901 is no doubt due to the effects of the war and the disturbed state of the country.
Several herds of goats exist in Palestine, the most valuable of which is the Mohair Goat, and the most common the Syrian Goat.
The hair of some varieties is thick and rough, and can only be made into coarse cloths, while others, of which the mohair Goat and Cashmere Goat are familiar examples, furnish a staple of surpassing delicacy and fineness.
The Mohair Goat is known scientifically as Capra Angorensis.
Except to visit the boathouses I had not been to Mohair since the day of its completion, and now the full beauty of the approach struck me for the first time.
This worthy man sighted Mohair on a Sunday morning, and at nine o'clock dropped his anchor with a salute which caused Mr. Cooke to say unpleasant things in his sleep.
Resentment was easier when the distance between Mohair and Asquith separated us,--impossible on a yachting excursion.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
I had gone over to Mohair that day with a hope that some good reason was at the bottom of her tolerance for him, and had come back without any hope.
For my part, I much preferred Miss Thorn's dishes to those of the Mohair chef, and so did Farrar.
She took tea on the inn veranda, and drove Mrs. Short around Mohair in her victoria.
Mr. Cooke had laid out Mohair as ruthlessly as Napoleon planned the new Paris; though not, I regret to say, with a like genius.
At one, when we had luncheon, Mohair was still in the distance.
A mixed stuff either of wool and silk or mohair and cotton.
To be Sold reasonably for ready money, or on good Security, a yellow Mohair Bed lined with a Persian of the same Colour, and six Chairs of the same Mohair, little the worse for wear.
A coarse fabric of silk, of mohairand wool, or these mixed with silk; often stiffened with gum.
Mohair cloth is manufactured, and the town is noted for its honey and fruit.
I will see that you don't lose your place, and I give you my word again that Charles Wrexell Allen has never been aboard this yacht, or at Mohair to my knowledge.
As for Marian and me, we did not much care whether we were married at Mohair or the City of Mexico.
And as long as I had to get out very soon anyway, I concluded to go to Mohair and make certain, and then pile things off on you if you happened to be the man.
His clothes were also a matter of concern, and he sends to London a pattern of a piece of Duncy, orders buttons of the newest fashion to match it, of mohair silk, and knee-straps.
There are wide differences in mohair upholstery fabrics, based upon the quality of wool, number of points per square inch, and height of pile.
Properly their pile is less close and firm than that of velvets, but some of the finest quality mohair plushes have a very close, erect pile.
Mohair fabrics have been used in the Orient since time immemorial, and they were popular in England in the early eighteenth century.
The body is made of brown mohair with a shade of orange mohair at the shoulder, two turns of a small brown-red hackle for legs; the wings are made of brown mallard and a little strip of land-rail mixed.
If there is not sufficient mohair twisted on the silk to form the whole body, what must be done?
Second, the "Golden Wren," with golden yellow mohair body, and wren tail hackle for legs.
Body yellow mohair bordering on orange, a red ginger cock's hackle long in the fibre rolled over it, ribbed with plate gold, a red tail, and light brown turkey tail feather with white tips for the wings.
These fierce dogs are especially trained to be savage in order to guard the sheep and mohair goats against thieves and wolves.
Someone suggested to us that we should buy mohair goats, of which the hair, cut every spring, would yield us an annual income.
The more nearly thoroughbred the goats are, the better the mohair and the higher the price.
Consequently, the income from the sale of mohair is nearly net.
Old mohair rugs are also being reproduced at the Hereke factory with good results.
The hair of the goat is woven into the mohair and so-called Smyrna rugs, and also into what is known as Paul's Tent Cloth.
Now, that particular piece of furniture had known hard use, and there were places where the mohair had been worn through, and I'd even discussed the expediency of having the thing done over.
Struthers, in the meantime, circumspectly took possession of Minty, who was still indecorously shaking a bit of mohair between his jocund young teeth.
The following Lines are all with Fine Bisque Head, Mohair Curls, Shoes and Stockings, and are Well Dressed throughout.
I could not help wondering why she gave Mr. Cooke line in the matter of household decoration, unless it was that he considered Mohair his own, private hobby, and that she humored him.
Mohair was finished and ready for occupation in July, two years after the suit.
Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
He continued this business for some years, while mohair goods were in demand.
During the present century, large Mills have been built in this city for the spinning of silk, woollen, andmohair yarns, and also for weaving those yarns into all kinds of fabrics.
And after the trade in worsted yarns declined, he imported mohair from Asia Minor, and commenced the spinning of mohair yarns.
Most of the old worsted fabrics formerly made in such large quantities have become obsolete, and lighter mixed fabrics are now produced in great variety, in silk, wool, mohair or cotton, or composed of three or four kinds of yarns.
Mohair fabrics came suddenly into use, and for some years prior to 1860, elegant tissues were produced here.
Of course mamma will not let you have the beautiful embroidery to do, Dora, and leave the plain mohair and merino to me, her eldest daughter!
Dora was bitterly disappointed, far more disappointed than Agnes, whose curtains, whether mohair or merino, seemed to win no notice at all.
Both mohair and farendon are generally cheap materials; for in the case of Manby v.
She would get any kind when she asked for it; but mohair is a thing we never do sell, because we only bring it in for our own use 2472.
Yes; the greater part of it is, except the Bradford and English manufactured wools, principally black mohair and alpaca.
These mohair falls are the only thing we deal in that is not Shetland.
You can get any quantity of mohair or alpaca, but you cannot get any quantity of fine Shetland wool.
Yes, of the finer descriptions; and then mohair and alpaca will range from 20s.
We don't buy the mohair black; we think we get a more uniform shade of colour when we buy them in the piece.
The qualities of Pyrenees and mohair and alpaca wools go by numbers, and according to fineness the numbers rise.
Mohair serge is woven with a cotton warp and a mohair filling, thirty-two inches in width.
Noils= are the rejected fibers from the process of combing the different wools and hairs; thus, wool noils are from the sheep, mohair noils from the Angora goat, and alpaca noils from the Peruvian sheep.
What characteristic is given to mohair from the fact that the smooth surface reflects light?
A plain fabric of wiry worsted or mohair yarn, closely woven, with a rough finished surface.
Mohair and alpaca noils are obtained by the combing of these materials.
From what animal is mohair obtained in greatest quantity?
Examine the sample of mohair and separate a filling thread into fibers.
What word would describe the feel ofmohair brilliantine?
Hold a mohair fiber and a wool fiber side by side to the light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mohair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; fiber; nylon; thread; wool
