One of them took off his sandals; another unlatched Ben-Hur's Roman shoes; then the two exchanged their dusty outer garments for fresh ones of white linen.
The mantle of snow-white linen, held to his head by cords of yellow silk, flows free over his shoulders; his robe is richly embroidered, a red sash with fringes of gold wraps his waist several times.
Though the robe ofwhite linen in which he was attired somewhat masked his form, his appearance was unusually attractive.
Save the slippers, the costume from head to foot was of white linen.
He was clothed from head to foot in white linen; his garments were all of the loosest, and he wore a pair of ancient buff slippers, which had doubtless trodden the bitter biting foam on the beach of Dieppe or the sands of Trouville.
It was only Hilda's wedding-gown, wrapped in voluminous coverings of white linen.
Corporals and veils for the pyx used to be of white linen, embroidered with white silk or linen thread; the silk gives a beautiful, varied, shining brightness.
In the British Museum is a fragment of Egyptian woollen or worsted embroidery on white linen, discoloured by its use as mummy wrapping; but the stitches of worsted remain a perfectly clear bright crimson and indigo blue.
Thereupon he crossed the grey sea over which the angry clouds were lowering, mounted his charger, and rode quickly towards the fair white linen pavilion of Ilya of Murom the Old Cossáck.
When all was ready Tsar Kalin sat down upon an armless chair in his gold-embroidered tent of white linen, and wrote a letter in great haste, using a swan-quill pen with molten gold in place of ink, and crimson velvet in place of parchment.
Meanwhile the game of draughts went quietly on in the fair pavilion of white linen, and Ilya slept.
For the head a wimple made of white linen or perhaps of silk; this she would put above her head, leaving the neck bare.
The wimples were pieces of silk or white linen held to the hair in front by pins, and allowed to flow over the head at the back.
So we may give as a list of clothes for men in this reign: A white linen shirt.
Silken wimples were forbidden to the nuns, who were then as now devoted to white linen.
One or two days later we crossed the 25th parallel of north latitude, and then, by order, the officers of the ship laid away their blue uniforms and came out in white linen ones.
He was clothed all in white linen, with a blue ribbon for a necktie, and he had on dressy tight boots.
The lap robe was of white linen, it was new, and it had a hand-worked border that could not be rivaled in that region for beauty and elaboration.
About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes.
When at last he left the spring, and returned to the little house, he felt clean and fresh as on the morning of a feast-day at the temple of Seti, when he had bathed and dressed himself in robes of snow-white linen.
He was big, blonde, and jauntily dressed in white linen, with buckskin zapatos.
Dandies in white linen, swinging their canes, were beginning their seductive strolls.
Very fortunately for this impulse the White Linen Nurse's second letter concerned itself almost entirely with matters quite extraneous to the home.
White Linen Nurse in a perfect agony of confusion.
White Linen Nurse, her hand on the throttle as she tried the self starter.
It seemed quite like old times to don an evening suit; the stiff, white linen awakened a pang of regret.
Alfarez was dressed immaculately, this time in civilian's white linen, his ferocious little mustachios carefully pointed, his cheeks freshly shaven and talcumed, his slender feet encased in white canvas shoes.
The women have on their heads large handkerchiefs of white linen, which hang down their backs, and on their feet stout boots; the men wear round felt hats, and sandals made of the bark of trees.
Their dress consists of a white linen gown, and a large shawl of the same material, which completely envelops them.
It was a woman we saw," says the Superior, "she was dressed in white linen.
It is against our faith to believe in dreams," says the Superior, "but this was more than a dream, I saw an angel beside my bed clothed in white linen.
Miss Cockburn was always delighted with white linen, and discouraged fussy frocks.
You may meet the preacher wearing a blue coat and bright buttons; the judge with a green one; the doctor in a white linen jacket; and the baker in glossy black broadcloth from top to toe!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white linen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
