Silks and satins should be sponged with ammonia and water.
For your pictures are very charming, though they are all pearl-powder and point-lace, all satins and brocades, and we are all going to Court in every one of them.
Some seasons women wear only satins and that throws back on the manufacturers the silks they have on hand; or velvets are worn and the satins have to be shelved.
As for the soft satins or messalines, they were made almost entirely in Europe because the cost of American labor was too great for them to be produced here.
He had on a great coat–light–and black satins under it and high soft boots and a little useless sword with a steel tassle–and a steinkirk cravat.
That's the way I happened to cultiwate a taste for satins and welwets and the like, I guess.
Their clothes were shabby now, yet scarcely six months ago they had been seen strolling arm in arm in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria, arrayed in silks and satins and fine linen.
Thirty or forty guests were seated at tables of different sizes, and amongst them was a fair scattering of handsome women, mostly dressed in silks and satins of bright colours, and wearing jewels that sparkled when they moved.
The Silks and Satins mostly painted to Admiration, and the Figures copied carefully from the Model; but this do appear too plainly; and the Action generally too much like a Scene in a Play.
He sat with his hands to his nose, then frowned as, under the suggestion of the perfume, the picture of a lovely woman clad in silks and satins and wearing rich jewels rose before him.
The rich satins and flowered brocades upon which they had worked did not lend themselves particularly well to the neo-classic treatment.
It was a living garden of artificial flowers, where the natural blossoms on figured satins seemed to deride the unnatural bloom on disfigured faces.
Beside all this, there were silks and satins and velvets and laces and crystal and ebony and sandal-wood that smelled sweeter than musk and rose leaves.
As they drew near to the palace a great crowd of servants, clad in silks and satins and jewels, came out to meet them, singing and dancing and playing on harps and lutes.
Thousands of waxen tapers lit the place as bright as day--a great oval room, floored with mosaic of a thousand bright colors and strange figures, and hung with tapestries of silks and satins and gold and silver.
The noblemen, in silks and satins and velvets, marched ahead, and back they went through the other apartments, until at last they came to the door.
She stared and stared, as well she might, to see the fine lady in silks and satins with a gold ring upon her finger, and nobody with her but one who looked like a poor beggar-man.
There were the people dressed in silks and satins and jewels, just as Selim the Baker had found them, and they shouted and hurrahed for Selim the Fisherman just as they had shouted and hurrahed for the other.
You shall have them," said the Demon; and thereupon he began snipping in the air, and cutting most wonderful patterns of silks and satins out of nothing at all, and the little Tailor sat and gaped and stared.
There also grows and is produced in this country of China much very good silk, of which they make a great quantity of stuffs; that is to say, damasks of all colours, satins of several kinds, and brocade.
Down in the orchestra some of the women were as gorgeous in satins and brocades as those in the boxes, while others wore street attire.
Slender girls in clouds of gauze and fat matrons panting in satinswere gazing in our direction.
The hall was crowded now; the ball was a flash of color, a whirl of satins and spangles and tulle and gauze, gold and green and rose and sapphire, gyrating madly in vivid projection against the black and white stripes of the Moorish walls.
It was empty, but on the divan the flickering candle light revealed the damp, spreading stain where Aimée's drenched satins had been.
Like the ghost of some deserted queen, with her regal satins and glittering circlet, she waited.
Charley did not know the meaning of a "club-house," and the shopkeepers flashed their diamonds and satins in vain in my face; I never gave them a thought.
Her satins and brocades compete with the richest contributions of Lyons.
Though it was a hundred miles off, he came back directly; but when he talked of the pearls and satins she wore, and the black spots on her face, with powder in her hair, we all said Barney must have been drunk or dreaming.
The silks and satinswere a wall of separation, as impenetrable as the lines of Torres Vedras, or the court hoop and petticoat of a drawing-room in the reign of George III.
The high price of silks and satins protected the mistress against this usurpation of her servant in the broad day.
But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
It is rather amusing to see all kinds of groceries and provisions on one side, and silks, satins and laces on the other.
With calmness and subdued feelings did her ladyship examine the costly satins and laces scattered in lavish profusion, and being in readiness to assume the most courtly and elegant costumes at the sanction of the fair enchantress.
Instead of the lines which follow one another, solid colours, and trimmings kept to hem of neck and sleeve and skirt, great designs, in satins and velvet brocades, distort the lines and proportions of man and woman.
Velvets, satins and silks, in every rainbow hue, were flung in reckless splendor of draperies over the great, soft surface of the water, by a sunset as prodigious as it was profligate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
