If you really must have all those miles of tablecloths and napkins and doilies and lace rufflings we'll do it afterwards,--not before.
Yes, he sold a number of aprons and tablecloths and such articles, but they didn't bring him much money.
Other tablecloths have red and blue borders; but I prefer the plain white with the monogram to any other.
There are two of these species of tablecloths especially to be recommended, both for their artistic and their inexpensive merits, and are far to be preferred to the tapestry cloths kept ready made in most shops.
The green-and-black tablecloths of the school dining-tables were supported on the clothes-line from the backyard.
We do have tableclothson the tables and curtains at the windows, and yours is all deal boards, and desks, and inkiness.
Among the reforms I intended to introduce on the stage, the most important was the abolition of those long tablecloths reaching to the ground, beneath which an assistant is always suspected, and, generally with some show of reason.
After breakfast we scraped almost the last of the tablecloths into lint, and Molly made envelopes, and Daddy Ben and I talked about shoes and how we could make them at home.
Here Mrs. Tulliver began to lay back the tablecloths in the chest, folding and stroking them automatically.
There were tiny tablecloths and napkins too, and knives and forks and spoons.
Both napkins and tablecloths are ironed in this way.
Old, half-worn tablecloths may be cut into excellent dish towels.
Lace inserted and richly embroidered tablecloths of formal dinner size are not in the best taste.
Tables covered with white damask (plain) tablecloths are put like counters around the sides, and down the center of the room.
Lace tablecloths are better suited to an Italian room--especially if the table is a refectory one.
One to four dozen damask tablecloths two and a half to three yards long, and one dozen dinner napkins to match each tablecloth.
All tablecloths and napkins to have embroidered monogram or initials.
Grandma, Aunt Alice, Marian, and Patty hemmed tablecloths and napkins with great diligence, and even little Edith was allowed to help with the kitchen towels.
Another day we shall go to buy prosaic things like tablecloths and carpet-sweepers; and then, as we know little about such things, we shall be glad to take with us some experienced advisers.
The rule for tablecloths at that particular period was that they should be made of tapestry with little yellow compartments marked upon them, such as you may see in photographs of the carpets in the corridors of the royal palaces.
Tablecloths from 2-1/2 to 3 yards are good size for a medium family of five or six.
Damask by the yard for tablecloths is slightly cheaper.
But there are no tablecloths there, sir," cried she.
Why, I told you where the tablecloths were," shouted Tod, who heard the answer.
Costly tablecloths and napkins wear out when they are in constant use, and if I get rid of mine rapidly I shall never be able to replace them; so, though I have so much, I am about on a level with the woman who has none.
Get an abundance of small tablecloths and lunch squares, and napkins of medium size, and good strong towels, and sensible sheets and pillow-cases of cotton.
I have not indulged in tablecloths yet; but you will put things to rights.
You will find tablecloths and napkins--I can certify that--for I stumbled upon them; but I thought they had best not see the light till their owner came.
When you go to town, price some tablecloths and napkins.
Tablecloths may be folded with three, or four, long creases.
Others had holland tablecloths and holland square cloths with lace on them.
Arras tablecloths are also named in 1654, and cloths enriched with embroidery in colors.
Typical merchant's house, so many tablecloths that they could not use them all if they lived to be a hundred.
It is true they do not spend half a day a week darning stockings, neither have they learned to put the exquisite over and under darns in tablecloths that the little girl could do by the time she was ten.
A bride in those days was married with sheets and tablecloths of her own weaving, with counterpanes and toilet-covers wrought in divers embroidery by her own and her sisters' hands.
Their tables are small and low, round or square, and they have no tablecloths or napkins; but the plates with the food are placed on the same tables.
Fine pieces, such as tableclothsand shirtwaists, should be ironed until entirely dry.
Large articles like tablecloths and sheets are folded down the middle and first ironed on one side, then on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tablecloths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
