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Example sentences for "oiled silk"

  • The glandular swellings of the neck or about the lower jaw are likewise best let alone, or merely covered with a layer of cotton wool, stitched inside a piece of oiled silk to maintain a uniform temperature.

  • It is well in travelling always to take with you some towels of your own; and if after using them there is no time for drying, you can roll them up and carry them away wet, if you have furnished yourself with an oiled silk bag.

  • If of oiled silk, let there be one compartment large enough to hold a wet towel.

  • Have ready a small square bag of oiled silk, or thick buckskin, with a narrow tape string sewed on near the top.

  • A piece of oiled silk may be put outside the linen to prevent the ointment staining the clothing, and over this a layer of absorbent cotton and a binder, applied without pressure.

  • Place the stupe wherever it is desired and cover with a piece of oiled silk or dry flannel.

  • Make two bags of oiled silk,--one should be smaller than the other.

  • Great benefit can be derived at home by wrapping the affected joints in cold cloths, covering with a thin layer of flannel and protected by oiled silk.

  • Cut these layers into sizes required and encase them in a gauze cover over which is put a layer of oiled silk.

  • A piece of oiled silk should be laid over the rag to prevent evaporation.

  • The above are soothing and refrigerant, if allowed to evaporate by free exposure; stimulant, if the evaporation is prevented by covering the part with the hand, or a piece of oiled silk.

  • All I have to do is to fill the big bag of oiled silk with a new gas I have discovered and up we go.

  • Up near the roof of the place, which was quite high, there swayed an immense bag of oiled silk.

  • He grasped the piece of oiled silk, coated with the cement, in his teeth, clinching it by a strip that was free from the sticky substance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything more; business letters; but all; came and; city life; everybody else; feet tall; green morocco; had felt; known only; little after; little parsley; nous nous; oiled paper; oiled silk; one hundred thousand dollars; said before; shall require; small boats; such manner; sudden sense; that hour; true enough