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Example sentences for "sarcenet"

Lexicographically close words:
sarcasms; sarcastic; sarcastical; sarcastically; sarce; sarch; sarched; sarcina; sarcode; sarcolactic
  1. She said she had never seen a Man look so well since thou warest thy white Sarcenet Coat in the great Muster for King Harry.

  2. His wife had sent him over with a pattern of sarcenet for me to match in London.

  3. She could not rest last night till I had promised to be here early enough in the morning to give you a piece of sarcenet to be matched in London.

  4. Mr. Archfield came to bring me a pattern of sarcenet to match for poor young Madam in London.

  5. After the usual compliments, I gave her the two pieces of sarcenet she had commissioned me to get.

  6. After supper the sarcenet was brought in; it was to be used for a dress with hoops, made after the extravagant fashion then prevailing.

  7. On the marquis's praising the colours and the beauty of the materials, she told him that I had brought her the sarcenet from Turin, and this reminded her to ask me whether I had been paid.

  8. In a quarter of an hour the count told me that he owed me a lot of money, which he hoped to pay back in the course of Lent, and that I must add the sarcenet to the account.

  9. And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths As if thou ne'er walk'st further than Finsbury.

  10. The tymbestere's eyes shone with malignant envy, as she added, "Graul Skellet loves not to see those who have worn worsted and say walk in sarcenet and lawn.

  11. He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with a great lord for her fere.

  12. Ho, the girl who glamours lords, and wears sarcenet and lawn!

  13. They displayed the snarling heads of red tigers, portculles, two-hued roses, and a dun cow on a field of green sarcenet in honour of the Bishop Palatine.

  14. It is also common to bind flannel with sarcenet ribbon.

  15. The allowance of Velvet 16 Yards, of white Sarcenet for Lining 12 Yards, and a Garter for the Shoulder, Embroidred with Purls of Damask Gold.

  16. Of the gentylman, that promysed the scoler of Oxforde a sarcenet typet--Sarcenet, at the period to which this story refers, was a material which only certain persons were allowed to wear.

  17. Of the gentylman that promysed the scoler of Oxford a sarcenet typet.

  18. From the room beyond an army of candle rays was slipping underneath the green sarcenet curtain and capering gnome-like about her feet.

  19. The green sarcenet curtain moved ominously, and the form of Richard Sheridan was disclosed in its folds.

  20. Before the green sarcenet curtain which had played such a part in the affairs of the night there was a waft of airy garments.

  21. Two caps, of yellow and red } sarcenet } 3s.

  22. Whether that Fishpole made not a woman's gown of sarcenet of small pieces, and whether it was not worth 20s.

  23. Also two old short garments, paned of satin Bruges and of sarcenet of divers colours in the bodies.

  24. Two curtains, of green and } yellow sarcenet } 20 yds.

  25. She then put on a corset and asked her sister to draw a sarcenet coverlet over her, as her limbs could be seen as plainly as through a crape veil.

  26. I stocked the warehouse with three hundred pieces of sarcenet and camlet of different shades and colours to receive the designs, and I paid for everything in ready money.

  27. Sarcenet was in those days "a fine soft silk," the word being "probably derived from 'Saracen.

  28. Formerly, black silk or sarcenet was exclusively employed as the basis of the plaster, but at the present time checkered silk is also much in favour.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarcenet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.