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Example sentences for "white muslin"

  • He was clad in a large dress of white muslin, over which was wound a magnificent Indian shawl, which extended from the hips to the feet, and made up for the transparency of the muslin.

  • The shirts and trousers are chiefly made of white silk, the jacket of white muslin.

  • The queen's ladies of honour, four in number, as well as most of the wives and daughters of the chiefs, were dressed in white muslin.

  • Which would you rather have, Mary Ellen, a white muslin frock, or a grey tweed, one that would be useful to you afterwards?

  • I could get a white muslin," she said, "with an embroidered yoke and a wide collar.

  • Then she had to dress in her freshest and fairest attire of white muslin: the perfect fineness of the day and the solemnity of the occasion warranted, and even exacted, such costume.

  • Positively, as I reached the spot, there was nothing left but the sweep of a white muslin curtain, and a balsam plant in a flower-pot, covered with a flush of bloom.

  • You cannot fancy me a slim young person, attired in scanty drapery of white muslin, with bare arms, bracelets and necklace of beads, and hair disposed in round Grecian curls above my forehead?

  • A frame should be manufactured of wire, and covered with white cloth and white muslin, and should be made to fit the back and breast of the figure, allowing room for the arms to be folded inside of it.

  • The costume consists of a long white dress, worn without many skirts, over which is draped a robe of white muslin; a long, white gauze veil should be loosely tied around the head; the hair is allowed to hang loosely over the shoulders.

  • Their costumes consist of a loose white robe, cut quite low at the top, and without sleeves; a heavy mantle of white muslin is draped across the breast; the hair should hang in ringlets, or be left to flow negligently on the shoulders.

  • The hats untrimmed were one shilling each, she bought a yard of white muslin to trim each and the white muslin was eight-pence a yard.

  • The girls in the school were all dressed in white--some in white washing silk, some in white lace, some only in white muslin.

  • Penelope, wearing a very shabby brown holland skirt and a white muslin blouse of at least three years of age, looked neither picturesque nor interesting as she strolled towards the parterre.

  • Then I put on a white muslin dress, that looked seraphically innocent, and tightened it up with a plaid silk sash, that circled my slender waist and floated off like a rainbow breaking through a cloud.

  • Then he explained something to a dignified looking old man, robed in flowing garments of white muslin, whose sharp eyes had noted the advent of the strangers the moment they appeared.

  • Robed in white muslin, his belt, simitar, dagger-hilt, and scarf literally blazed with diamonds.

  • Why did those poor girls in white muslin, not being compelled, like Hester, continue to go?

  • Mrs. Donaldson gave me my ticket, but she rather looked grave at my idea of going to the Ball in my white muslin, which I had already worn two evenings at their house.

  • Now you, in white muslin, just tipped with crimson, like a daisy, may wear anything.

  • A simple dress of white muslin, a light kerchief of gauze, a straw hat with a gayly-colored ribbon, such was the attire of the queen and of the princesses whom Marie Antoinette invited.

  • One was dressed in pink satin, and one in white muslin.

  • It had a low collar, all covered with the shining tin buttons; and in the front there was a square space of white muslin, and the tin buttons were sewed on all round this.

  • Oh, the one in white muslin,--ever so much the prettiest!

  • The mantelet is made of thin, soft, white muslin, and is trimmed with worked volants from six to seven inches broad, and set on rather full.

  • The dress worn with this mantelet is of white muslin, ornamented with needlework; but the mantelet is intended to be worn in outdoor costume with a dress of silk or barege.

  • Weakly blue-eyed and spectacled, hooked up primly in chaste drab woollen and capped with white muslin, though scarcely thirty, she stood among her flock and eyed the fierce combatants with an utter lack of command of the situation.

  • Elmira, after much discussion with her mother, had decided upon refurbishing this old white muslin, and wearing that instead of her new green silk to the party.

  • Elmira's Aunt Belinda Lamb had given her, some time before, a white muslin gown of her girlhood.

  • Among them there was a white muslin, a good deal the worse for wear, but prettier than the silk; a soft transparent fabric, and with lace about it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    denying ordinance; near the present site; white amorphous; white bird; white cedar; white cloth; white cravat; white cross; white fellow; white field; white garments; white head; white lead; white people; white persons; white powder; white rock; white samite; white sand; white sandstone; white shield; white soldiers; white spot; white vest; white woman; white women