He sent Americans, who had volunteered their services, to Holland to purchase food-stuffs, and at the same time informed the German commander that he expected these food-stuffs to be admitted without hindrance.
All food-stuffs have fallen considerably in price.
By this rigorous measure, Jews and Moors, under savage and ruinous penalties, were not only required to wear the distinguishing badges, but to dress in coarse stuffs and not to shave or to cut the hair round.
These he stuffs into his musette, the cloth wallet beloved of the poilu, and departs.
This reputation has been traded upon by certain unscrupulous sugar dealers, who have discovered how to treat white beet sugar with a tin salt or with aniline dye-stuffs so as to give it the appearance of the old genuine Demerara cane sugar.
Fugitive dye-stuffs have also been employed as disappearing inks, and some of these, such as quinoline blue, give characters that rapidly disappear when exposed to sunlight.
Under this assumed character he gradually conveyed a great many sorts of rich stuffs and fine linen to his lodging from the cavern, but with all the necessary precautions to conceal the place whence he brought them.
I sat down, and bade the old woman desire him to show me the finest silk stuffs he had.
If you have no mind to learn any handicraft, I will take a shop for you, furnish it with all sorts of fine stuffs and linens; and then with the money you make of them you can lay in fresh goods, and live in an honorable way.
So they had spent the whole night rolling as many precious stuffs round their waists as they could support the weight of, and we found ourselves face to face with human balloons, like monstrous gourds.
Moufet is of opinion that the ancients possessed an effectual method of preserving stuffs from the moth, because the robes of Servius Tullius were preserved up to the death of Sejanus, a period of more than five hundred years.
It is found in effect that with a varied range of dye stuffs a given shade is produced with from 10 to 30 p.
As a combined result of economic production and active competition, the selling prices of 'sulphite pulp' have moved steadily downwards in relation to other half-stuffs and raw materials.
The stuffs which went into a Moorish woman's dress were usually of extraordinary fineness, and the trimmings were costly, gold and silver edging being used without stint.
Whether as shepherdess, gleaner, or the maker of food stuffs or textiles, the Hebrew woman may justly hold a place of respect among her sex.
White cotton stuffs were wrapped or folded from the waist downward to the feet, and over these sometimes was a thin cloak folded gracefully.
It would be very serious for us--with so many beautiful stuffs about.
Find me the books of patterns, the prettiest ones, of the silkystuffs for curtains, and some of the cretonnes," she said to one of the young girls sewing there.
He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver.
A few of the natural dye stuffs are capable of dyeing cotton direct, without a mordant, such as Turmeric, Barberry bark, safflower, annatto.
Cylindrica is used by Icelanders for dyeing woollen stuffs a brownish green colour.
In Sweden and Norway, Evernia vulpina is used for dyeing woollen stuffs yellow.
What if the ladies would be content with Irish stuffs for the furniture of their houses, for gowns and petticoats to themselves and their daughters?
If the men's opinions may be taken, the ladies will look as handsome in stuffs as brocades; and since all will be equal, there may be room enough to employ their wit and fancy in choosing and matching of patterns and colours.
If we had in Phœnicia bas-reliefs like those of Assyria, and paintings like those of Egypt, we should be able to give some account of those brilliantstuffs of dyed purple, described by classical antiquity with so much enthusiasm.
Therefore the viceroy orders that henceforth in the Southern Sea, instead of paying thirty-two pesos on every tonelada, there shall be paid thirty-two ducados on every tonelada of stuffs coming from the Filipinas.
To forbid the use of stuffs for clothing from China.
And yet, rich as the stuffs are, I would not put the best of them on for all the wealth of London.
Besides these, there were shawls andstuffs of the richest description.
The splendour of the stuffswas too attractive for female eyes; even Henriette forgot her irritation at sight of a couple of exquisite fans, and some boxes of artificial flowers from Paris.
So he longed after them and going out to the marketstreets of the city, bought trinkets and costly stuffs and fruit-confections, such as they had never seen or known.
FN#361] When we heard where he was, we came to Adan in search of him, and when we foregathered with him there, he told us that he was trading in stuffs with the monies and buying goods upon goods.
She opened the doors, and entered; then she sent to her sister Nasim, who rejoiced with exceeding joy at the news of her return and brought her the furniture and precious stuffs left in her charge.
Another group of organizations dealing with the acquisition and distribution of raw stuffs possessed in certain cases the right of expropriation, and is not allowed to make more than a certain limited profit on its transactions.
It is affirmed by contrabandists in Scandinavia who are acting on Germany's behalf, that many of the commissions for the acquisition of rawstuffs for Germany are composed almost exclusively of non-Russian subjects of the Tsar.
All wealthy nations know that our finest stuffs are twice dyed--dibaptha.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stuffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
