Seven feet higher he constructed a similar, though lighter platform to serve as roof, and from the sides of this he suspended the balance of his sailcloth for walls.
But before he did so he called gently to Jane upon the opposite side of the sailcloth partition, for he wished to apologize, but he might as well have addressed the Sphinx.
But she did not move--save with her hand to push the folds of sailcloth a cautious inch or two away from the opening.
And quick as a flash, huddled inside, she reached out and drew the heap of what proved to be sailcloth nearer to her to cover the opening-and lay still.
I then asked Abraham for a piece of sailcloth to serve as a towel.
Warden, in his Linen Trade, states that the manufacture of sailcloth was established in England in 1590, as appears by the preamble of James I.
The latter crawled ahead sluggishly, heaving her bows up streaming out of the long seas that fell away beneath a high wall of slanted iron hull until the blackened strips of sailcloth swung wildly back again.
He swung into sight, clinging with an arm around jib and bowsprit until he staggered to his feet, and a strip of sailcloth that went aloft beat him with its wet folds amidst a frantic banging.
With that, the three of us looked up, and now saw Tom Bullover standing on top of the plateau in front of the cave, with a sort of long white sheet like a piece of sailcloth round him, and Sam's banjo in one hand.
The wind was fairly fresh up there, and overhead, there sounded the flap, flap of sailcloth flying in the wind; but since we had left the deck, there had been no other sound from above.
It was followed instantly by the rattle and crash of sailcloth thrashing in the wind.
But that his body had been wrapped in sailclothonce belonging to Dan's fishing-boat was no sufficient ground for the terrible accusation that was taking shape in other minds.
Though the sailcloth came from the "Ben-my-Chree," the fact said nothing of where the body came from.
All the inside was painted in one plain tint of pale blue; two big sea-chests in sailcloth covers and with iron padlocks fitted exactly in the space under the bunk.
A thick roll of charts in a sheath of sailcloth leaned in a corner; the flat packing-case containing the portrait in oils and the three carbon photographs had been pushed under the bed.
But he had reckoned without his host, for as he swept them into a jagged piece ofsailcloth and prepared to tie up the bundle, Celestina called to him from the window.
The men breathed more easily as they jumped for the sheets, and with a great banging and thrashing of sailcloth the vessel shot up to windward, and turned as on a pivot.
A gray shape burst out of the vapor and grew with astonishing swiftness into dim tiers of slanted sailcloth swaying above a strip of hull that moved amid a broad white smear of foam.
He was sewn up in sailclothand to make him heavier they put with him two iron weights.
It was strange that a man should be sewn up in sailcloth and should soon be flying into the sea.
Sewn up in the sailcloth he looked like a carrot or a radish: broad at the head and narrow at the feet.
Spreading a piece of sailcloth on the ground, I summoned my boys to set to work.
They fixed four posts in the ground, and to them fastened a square piece of sailcloth by four cords attached to the corners.
These we arranged side by side on the foundation of boughs, so as to form a smooth solid floor, and round this platform built a bulwark of planks, and then throwing the sailcloth over the higher branches, we drew it down and firmly nailed it.
I will procure, if commissioned, any quantity of sailcloth and cordage.
About the middle of the vessel the bulwark showed a breach some five feet in length, and a piece of rough sailcloth had been fastened carelessly over it, so that the ragged edges of the broken wood were plainly seen jutting out from under it.
Nor was there much attention given, during those great days of the sailcloth industry, to the scavenging and lighting of the town, and probably little to the overcrowded state of its old-fashioned streets and lanes.
At Warrington the manufactures of sailcloth and sacking are very considerable.
She put the knife in its sheath and then she put the boat hook away, hiding it behind the sailcloth in her cave, then she went into the men's cave.
The discomfort of the rough tweed of the skirt against her unprotected limbs, of the hard bed, of the sailcloth pillow with its vague smell of canvas and jute, all these were nothing to that other discomfort.
Men went up the shrouds, swung high on the yards, letting little coils of rope run down, and a third big tier of sailcloth swelled out on either mast.
The tents are nowadays always made of cloth, either sailcloth obtained from wrecks or drilling, which is purchased from the ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailcloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
