Cotton alone increased so rapidly as to render its price so far below every other article which can be fashioned into cloth, that the clothing and sheeting of the civilized world was principally fabricated from it.
Separate cribs or baskets for babies--clean mattresses covered with rubber sheeting and clean flannel blankets are to be used.
Clean piece of rubber sheeting for each patient's bed.
Infants' cribs or baskets shall have firm, clean mattresses, covered with rubber sheeting and washable pads.
For Dan had greatly surprised the other two that morning by producing a very bedraggled square of white sheeting bearing marks that, before its immersion in water, had been two letters and two numerals.
Above the sough of the wind which drove the sheeting rain into his face he caught the roar of the oncoming flood.
Even if the wind had not been dashing the sheeting rain in his face it would have been impossible for Seyd to have caught a distant murmur of voices.
Her face lightened and darkened as the sheeting violet and orange flames from the great smokestacks roared out against the sky, and fell, and rose again.
They had got their rigging all right,--the canvas bent upon the yard, the halliards rove, and everything except hauling up and sheeting home.
These segments of the iron cylinder are set true to the radius of the pit; and every horizontal and perpendicular joint is made tight with a layer of sheeting deal.
To make room for the lower wedging crib, the recess is excavated a few inches wider, as at c; and from b to c, sheeting deals are laid all round the circle, or a thin stratum of oakum is introduced.
Besides the stout plank for making the tub, a quantity of well-seasoned and clean reeded deal is required for forming the joints; called sheeting deal by the workmen.
On this the wedging crib d is applied, and neatly jointed in the radius-line of the pit, each segment being drawn exactly to the circle: and at each of its segmentssheeting deal is inserted.
This sheeting deal is always applied in pieces laid endwise, with the end of the fibres towards the area of the pit.
A Committee of the Royal Society has been formed for investigating the causes of the decay of copper sheeting in the Navy, as I mentioned to you.
These are important facts, and should dispose those who may preside over judicial enquiries, to pause before they infer the inferiority of copper sheeting from the rapidity of its decay.
Rubber cloth--Usually cotton sheeting or drilling with a coating of rubber on one side; used as a protective cloth for various purposes.
Household linen including bedding varies in width from one yard to two and one-fourth and two and one-half yards for sheeting and from thirty-eight to fifty-four inches for pillow case muslin.
This was by no means an easy job, for all my American sheeting was out, and so was the kiniki.
They were, he said, without covering other than a sheeting overhead and were lying on the naked ground and their bodies protected only by a quilt and blanket, which of his household bedding were all he had managed to save.
For the most part their only protection from the wet was a thin covering of sheeting tacked upon improvised tent-poles.
The coffin is enveloped with fine white sheeting, and cords are tied around the sheeting to keep the cotton in place.
The mode of burial in coffins and the use of cotton sheeting are certainly modern customs, but may be modifications of some older ceremonial when other material was used.
The rock-circle is a perfect ring of flame, sheetingforth in red jets athwart the hanging sulphurous smoke.
The back porch was enclosed with sheeting for the room, and the apparatus consisted of a galvanized-iron pail with a short nipple soldered in the center of the bottom and fitted with a valve and sprinkler.
The sails should be made of strongsheeting or thin canvas.
While sheeting home, we saw the Ayacucho standing athwart our hawse, sharp upon the wind, cutting through the head seas like a knife, with her raking masts, and her sharp bows running up like the head of a greyhound.
Dead leaves and pieces of aluminium sheeting that were lying on the floor of the shed were whisked up and flung about with great velocity.
Completely perforating the aluminium sheeting it vanished, leaving a few fragments of streamers to mark the palpable hit.
The sliver of metal that had only just missed Athol's legs was a piece of aluminium sheeting from the dismembered Zeppelin, for it was afterwards found bent round one of the girders of the landing-wheel framework.
If a traveller can do so, he should make a point of having a strip of macintoshsheeting 7 feet by 4, certainly not less than 6 feet by 3, to lay on the ground below his bedding.
The reeve is then folded to the right, and the sheets being laid on the roof in their place, it is nailed down to the sheeting with flat-headed short copper nails.
I'll pay you double your price," she said in a lull of the storm; and after that there was only the sheeting rain and the tugging splash of mud-loaded fetlocks.
The contractor then added as much width as he desired for sheeting and working space, and excavated to a depth of about 5 ft.
The sheeting was then set, and all voids back of it were filled with clean earth and well tamped.
Sand continued to flow under the sheeting to such an extent, however, that the front walls of four adjoining buildings were badly cracked and had to be taken down and rebuilt.
The toe of the sheeting was kept level with the bottom of the excavation until the ground-water was reached, after which it was kept from 3 to 5 ft.
His Lordship then pulled the cord, and the sheeting rolled up into position.
Standing respectfully at one angle and another, I was able to form, by the outlines of the grey sheeting that enveloped him, some rough notion of his posture and his costume.
Cruel was the thrill of dismay I had when at length the cord was pulled and the sheeting slid down, revealing so dull a sight.
Over this mattress is securely pinned the strip of rubber sheeting or table oilcloth.
A sheet completely covers the crib, and, with the bed amply protected with rubber sheeting or an extra blanket, steam is allowed to enter under the sheet at the foot of the bed from a funnel put into the nose of the teakettle.
One and one-half yards rubber sheeting 36 inches wide.
The mattress and bedding are covered with rubber sheeting and the infant's clothes protected from moisture.
The use of corrugated sheeting as a means of rendering the underside of a bridge drop dry cannot be too strongly deprecated.
It is evident that by boxing up the floor structure, rust is favoured, and serious defects may be developed, not to be discovered till the sheeting is removed, or something happens.
A case may be instanced in which it was found, on taking down sheeting of this description, that the floor girders, previously hidden, were badly wasted in the webs.
For the boys and Kink to sleep in," said Janet; "but we must be very careful about waterproof sheeting on the ground first.
Then at last they carried thesheeting and the rugs to the tent, and crept into their sacks and prepared to sleep.
