Cloth covers easily come off, as their boards are not tied to the cords on which the book is sewed, but are simply fastened by paste or glue to the boards by a muslin guard, or else the cloth is glued to the back of the book.
Morocco cloth is American, but has no advantage over plain muslin or book cloth, that I am aware of.
Some libraries of circulation make it a rule to cover all their books with paper or thin muslin covers, before they are placed on the shelves for use.
In half-binding chosen for the great majority of books because it is much cheaper than full leather, the sides are covered with muslin or with some kind of colored paper--usually marble.
Decoration was represented by such quaint devices as pink muslinon the banisters, or green festoons dependent from the chandelier.
She had also once been able to trace patterns very nicely for muslin embroidery, but that was her nearest approach to the accomplishment of drawing, and I did not think it would go very far.
And the windows had muslin curtains at them with cretonne curtains just full of pink roses, looped back from the muslin ones; and the couch and the cushions and some chairs were all covered with the same kind of pink roses.
His hands are concealed by muslin gloves; his garments are white, and he wears a brilliant mitre.
It left in view their muslin head-dresses, and calico trousers, gathered at the ankle, nothing more.
There were thin muslin sash curtains at these windows, and white shades had been drawn down to meet them.
Stretch the muslin over the opposite side of the soap box (from which, of course, you have removed the bottom), and tack it to the edges of the box.
You also want a soap box (or any other kind of square box), a cigar box, and a piece of white muslin or linen as large as a pocket-handkerchief.
Old Elsie tied the strings of her white muslin cap, and turned her back to the wind that was playing havoc with its freshly fluted frills.
As she passed him, his back was turned, and her muslin dress swept within reach of his spur, which caught the delicate fabric.
The nurse passed her wrinkled hand over the drab muslin sleeves and skirt, and touched the folds of hair.
The puffed sleeves, scarcely reaching the elbows, displayed the finely rounded white arms, and the exactness with which the airy muslin fitted her form, showed its symmetrical outline to the greatest advantage.
After all, I doubt whether you have really never had a sweetheart, for every schoolboy swears allegiance to some yellow-haired divinity in ruffled muslin aprons.
She undertook to do a cottage window, draped with snowy muslin curtains.
Then, slipping off the embroidered muslin morning-gown she still wore, she sought for her plainest and most serviceable outdoor costume.
The finest and most costly muslin is manufactured in the province of Dacca, and costs two rupees (4s.
The dress of this beauty was like that of the women in the pasha's harem, but instead of the small turban, she wore a white muslin cloth lightly twisted round the head, which she could also draw over her face as a veil.
They appeared to pay a great deal of attention to their hair; their chief care seemed to consist in replacing the muslin on their heads, whenever it chanced to fall off.
Besides this, whenever they moved their arms the muslin opened and displayed not only their arm, but a portion of their bosom and body.
Charley Wells had both the depot 'buses out with "County FAIR" painted on muslin hung on the sides.
There is a kind of a business (looks to me like it is the axle and wheels of a toy wagon, stood up on end and covered with white paper muslin and a string tied around the middle) that is supposed to be an hour-glass.
Mute and triumphant, I received it in a rapturous embrace, set it on a bench by the stable door, and passed the hem of my muslin apron about it.
Thus it happened, that, decked in a clean pink calico frock and white muslin apron, I was hoisted to my perch in the high gig beside Cousin 'Ratio, and set off to spend a whole day at Cold Comfort.
The books were ranged in rows on the muslin shelves with crisp little ruffles above and below.
Won't the white muslin soil soon, and won't so much chintz get very dusty?
The other was his wife, in a sad-colored gown and muslin tucker, with a countenance which suggested nothing except saleratus and the renunciation of all human joys.
She crept out of bed, and, putting her dress over her shoulders, peeped out between the muslin curtains.
A bright lamp hung from the ceiling of the room, and white muslin curtains adorned the window; but what struck Rosalie most of all was that the parlour was full of chairs.
Rosalie jumped from her seat, and peeped out between the muslin curtains.
It was a white muslin dress, looped up with pink roses, and there was a wreath of paper roses to wear in her hair.
This time a face appeared between the muslin curtains and peered cautiously out.
The caravans were painted a brilliant yellow, just as her father's caravans used to be; and there were muslin curtains and pink bows in the little windows, just like those through which she had so often peeped.
Rosalie was lying in a small and very pretty iron bedstead with white muslin hangings.
It was a curious door; the upper part of it, being used as a window, was filled with glass, behind which you could see two small muslin curtains, tied up with pink ribbon.
They took the money and bought calico, muslin and good shoes, pants, coats and other nice things for their Sunday clothes.
These dresses were for wear during the week while dresses made of white muslin were given for Sunday wear.
Fancy finding that a medium whom you believed to be perfectly honest had yards and yards of muslin and a false nose or two concealed about her.
And then Robert had hinted at the discovery of yards and yards of muslin and a false nose.
Then she fed it with muslin; yards and yards of muslin she poured on to it; never had there been so much muslin nor that so exquisitely fine.
I found yards and yards of muslin and a pair of Amadeo's eyebrows in that woman's bedroom the very day she went away.
The first was to use the muslin herself; it would make summer garments for years.
Swathes of whitemuslin shaped themselves in the darkness, and there appeared a white face, in among the topmost folds of the muslin, with a Roman nose and a melancholy expression.
As long as crystals fascinated and automatic writing flourished, the secret of the muslin and the eyebrows should repose in one bosom alone.
This bit of finest muslin and filmy lace, dropped or forgotten by Patricia as she moved away indifferent, yet alive, to every note of praise or flattery that rang about her.
Boil for one and a half hours, lift out the muslin bag, stir in the sago, and continue stirring for ten minutes, then strain.
Then he made a narrow slit in the center of the muslin with his pen-knife, and through it thrust a glass tube like that of our former experiment.
The muslin simply prevents the tube from filling with sand," he explained.
Lala Shunker Das having discarded all clothing save a scarf of white muslin tied petticoat-wise round his loins, lay on a wooden bed perched high on the topmost platform of his tall house.
A pile of dainty lace and muslin things on the table beside her, told tales for the future.
Her hair framed that face that you know in its light curls; and in it were some sprays of Cape heath; she wore a white muslin gown, a white sash with long floating ends.
It was my invariable custom to wear as a kammerband or girdle folds of muslin round my waist for the protection of the liver and spleen, and in this I placed the articles I carried away.
She wore a plainmuslin cap with a high puff in the crown, a short woolen gown, a white and blue checked apron, and shoes with heels.
The ladies came down in cool muslin dresses, and added the needed grace to the picture as they sat breakfasting by the windows, their figures in silhouette against the blue water.
It was here that Miss Forsythe sat in her loneliness the morning after she received the letter, by the window with the muslin curtain, looking out through the shrubbery to the blue hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muslin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canvas; cloth; corduroy; cotton; cringle; fabric; foot; head; leech; nylon; rag; sail
