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Example sentences for "white cloth"

  • When a widow remarries, her new husband gives her a white cloth, and ties a yellow string round her neck in the presence of some of the castemen.

  • Soon after death has taken place, the widow of the deceased purchases twenty-eight cubits of white cloth.

  • Then he jumped up quickly and threw a white cloth over it.

  • There stood the little table ready laid, and covered with a white cloth, and seven little plates, and seven knives and forks, and drinking-cups.

  • In the centre of this glow of color stood a round table, its top covered with a white cloth, and laid with covers for fifty guests.

  • Then he puts on his own vestments as follows: Over his shoulders the amice, a square, white cloth.

  • After Baptism he anoints its head with holy chrism, places a white cloth upon it to signify the purity it received in Baptism, and as a sign that it must keep its soul free from sin.

  • His Majesty was attended by seven henchmen, clothed in doublets of crimson satin, with gowns of white cloth of gold.

  • In the third chamber was ordained a bayne (bath) or two, which were covered with tents of white cloth.

  • Swiftly he sprang towards it, and threw a white cloth over it.

  • A strip of white cloth (folded up and lying at the bottom of the basket).

  • Wrap the clod up in white cloth, and after fumigating it with incense, place it at night beneath your pillow, and when you retire to rest repeat the last two lines of the above charm as before and go to sleep.

  • On her feet were put foot mittens of white cloth, with a separate place for the big toe, and high lacquered clogs.

  • We had hardly raised our elbows from the table when it was spread with a white cloth, and set with white platters and with white bread, and a brown soup was poured out of the spout of a bright tin pot.

  • Cover the pedestal and shield with white cloth.

  • The seats and platforms can be formed of boxes and boards and covered with white cloth.

  • In front of the pulpit place a small table, covered with a white cloth, on which set four silver goblets.

  • His costume consists of a loose robe of white cloth, trimmed with purple; his head is covered with white hair, and from his face hangs a long white beard.

  • When he went to her, she told him to bring her one white slave, one white goat, one piece of white cloth, one white chicken, and a basket of eggs.

  • They then told the king that he must take seven baskets of flies, a white goat, a white chicken, and a piece of white cloth, and make a sacrifice of them in order to satisfy the Ju Ju.

  • During all the four days of the marriage, the bride is confined to a special room, where a white cloth with a carpet over it is spread on the floor, and a lamp burns day and night.

  • Each girl now took a long strip of white cloth, and, winding it round her waist, allowed one end to trail at the back in the fashion of a Liberty sash.

  • He excitedly waved over this erection an ancient and very rusty umbrella, with many ventilations, with streamers of white cloth attached to the top.

  • You can test the depth of color by dipping bits of white cloth in the dye.

  • When you want to turn the row-boat into a sail-boat, you can tack a three-cornered piece of white cloth on the end of a pole and rig up a sail (Fig.

  • When they go abroad, they cover the head with a white cloth, which hangs down over the back and shoulders, and wear over their other garments a blue cloth jacket with long sleeves, open in front and bordered with fur.

  • The coat and pantaloons of the Walachian, the original native of the country, in his holiday dress, are of white cloth, the ornaments being neatly worked by the women in coloured worsted.

  • The head is generally covered with a woollen or white cloth cap, or a low round hat; but while the Walachian is in mourning he always goes bare-headed, be the weather what it may.

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  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white cloth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five yards; order the; whatever cost; white birch; white bird; white cock; white elephant; white enamel; white gown; white horse; white horses; white laborers; white lead; white mustard; white persons; white pine; white robes; white rose; white roses; white sauce; white shield; white silk; white soldiers; white waistcoat; white wine; will cease