Use cloth in a sentence
Sentences ending with cloth
- A huge chandelier with prisms hung over the flowers at the centre of the table, which sparkled with glass and silver, while dishes of vermilion and yellow fruits relieved the whiteness of the cloth. [9]
- That is all very well so long as old pieces of stuff are all they call for, but it is a different matter to ask for clippings out of new and uncut rolls of cloth. [6]
- Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
- She had broken that nail in reaching out to save something--a vase of roses--that was it!--a vase of roses on a table with a white cloth. [9]
- To think of submitting a holy cherub to the indignity of a damp cloth! [4]
- It was a square box, covered with painted cloth. [4]
- The father and son took their seats at a table, over which the maid-servant had spread a cloth. [10]
- Now he was so no longer, and pleasant dreams blended with his ambitious plans, like golden threads in dark cloth. [10]
- Then he began slowly to unwrap the newspaper from the bundle: there were five layers of it, but at length he disclosed a bolt of cardinal cloth. [9]
- He hoped that she had not seen the other side of him, for, in fact, the patches were not of the exact shade of the rest of the cloth. [4]
More example sentences with the word cloth in them
- D-don't you wish you had the red cloth to wear here? [9]
- In any other year of these 33 the relief would have been simple: go where you can cut your cloth to fit your income. [5]
- If David, however, would stand to the shovel hat, and if Hope would be faithful for ever to the poke bonnet and grey cloth, all might yet be well. [11]
- True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
- And he walked with me till mornin', carryin' the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin' on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
- I raised myself with difficulty, and saw a basin of water, a sponge, bits of cloth, and a pocket-knife. [11]
- Smith presented him with a suit of red cloth, a white greyhound, and a hat. [4]
- It all ended with a feast at a long table made of sawhorses and boards covered with a white cloth, and when the cake was cut there was wild excitement as to who would get the ring and who the thimble. [9]
- It was covered with a cloth when I visited the studio, but Hermon himself termed it the statue of a goddess. [10]
- Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. [2]
- And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
- She informed me, while I was cutting the cloth, that Leonax would come as a suitor. [10]
- Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. [11]
- In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals. [2]
- The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes of the middle of the sixteenth century, while the Saviour was nude, with the exception of a cloth around the loins. [5]
- A white cloth was wound round his head, the ends of which hung down to the shoulders. [10]
- Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale. [10]
- A flag-staff too was set up, and a red cloth waved defiantly in the breeze. [11]
- The table cloth was of very coarse material and was liberally spotted with coffee stains and grease. [5]
- This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. [2]
- Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
- One of them was a poor half-witted woman who had stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver --she was to be hanged for it. [5]
- On the porch was a loom, with a piece of cloth in process. [4]
- There was a waiting pause; then, at a signal, a triumphant peal of music burst forth, and Tom Canty, clothed in a long robe of cloth of gold, appeared at a door, and stepped upon the platform. [5]
- A passionate longing urged her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her. [10]
- He frequently blew upon the burning spot in his flesh, over which a bit of cloth was wrapped, but curiosity concerning the result of this entertaining brawl was stronger than the wish to have it bandaged and healed. [10]
- The tailor folded up his cloth and hurried away. [10]
- In the shops under the Belfry, the great tower from whence the bell summoned the inhabitants when danger threatened, lay plenty of cloth for new doublets. [10]
- Behind 'Polyte came two rotund little men perspiring freely, and laden down with various articles,--a bird-cage with two yellow birds, a hat-trunk, an inlaid card box, a roll of scarlet cloth, and I know not what else. [9]
- During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. [10]
- A linen cloth, trimmed with lace, covered the face. [10]
- Virginia herself never touched that cloth to her it seemed the shroud upon a life of happiness that was dead and gone. [9]
- To-day they were to trim the grape-vine, so Kit mounted half-way up a short ladder, and began to snip and hammer away, while the old gentleman, with a great interest in his proceedings, handed up the nails and shreds of cloth as he wanted them. [12]
- That was but three years since, and then all had gone across the green cloth in one mad night in St. James's Street. [9]
- The banquet lasted three hours, when the cloth was removed, the table was placed upon the ground--that is, removed from the dais--and their majesties, standing upon it, washed their hands in basins, as did the others. [4]
- If they have three fingers' breadth of cloth about them, they consider themselves elegantly dressed.--But come, sit down--there, at my feet. [10]
- Superb she was, though her close-fitting travelling gown of green cloth was frayed and torn by the briers, and the beauty of her face enhanced by the marks of I know not what trials and emotions. [9]
- The oriel just this side is whole cloth from Haddon Hall, and the galleried porch next it from a Florentine villa. [9]
- She looks like this cloth, and since yesterday has refused to take the milk we daily procure for her at a heavy cost. [10]
- The simmering urn, the white cloth, the shining silver, the big green melons that the hot summer sun had ripened for them alone, and Hugh's eyes as they rested on her--such was her illusion. [9]
- As it was the weapon had torn a piece of cloth from his coat. [11]
- In the center, the soft red glow of the candles, the gleaming silver, the shining cloth, the Church on one side--and what on the other? [9]
- It was like the matador's waving of the scarlet cloth in the face of the enraged bull. [11]
- The boiler in the Kubisch cloth factory had burst, a part of the huge building near it was in flames, and a large portion of the walls had fallen. [10]
- Twelve youths bore the framework, covered with a richly embroidered blue cloth, on which the coffin rested. [10]
- I covered up the face of the dead lascar and wrapped round him the scarlet and gold cloth that Madras had worn. [11]
- Returning, he found the dogs cowering with fear, for one of them had pushed the cloth off the dead man's face with his nose, and death exercised its weird dominion over them. [11]
- Give the man the cloth, Xanthe. [10]
- She handed him the cloth that lay on the table for him to wipe his streaming forehead. [10]
- Coello drew aside the cloth that covered it, and the sarcastic chuckle Ulrich had so often heard instantly echoed from the king's lips; then turning to Coello he angrily exclaimed, loud enough to be heard by the young artist: "Scandalous! [10]
- But I procured the cloth from Miss Trevor and returned. [9]
- Before he entered, the chamberlains fastened the usual cloth before his mouth, and commanded him to cast himself on the ground before the king. [10]
- He rose from the berth slowly, and, opening a portmanteau, drew from it a cloth of white and red, fringed with gold. [11]
- And at six, the appointed fateful hour, arrayed in a new street gown of dark green cloth, she stood awaiting him. [9]
- Again a beautiful tappa cloth was spread for me, and then ten maidens entered, and, sitting in a semi-circle, began to chew a root called kava, which, when sufficiently masticated, they returned into a calabash, water being poured on the result. [11]
- Even he was surprised at the fortitude and skill Virginia showed from the very first, when she had deftly cut away the stiffened blue cloth, and helped to take off the rough bandages. [9]
- His pompous words stung me like the lash of a whip, and I gave no heed to his cloth as I answered: "If I have grieved my grandfather, sir, I am heartily sorry, and will answer to him for what I have done. [9]
- The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
- Though her father's storehouses contained chests of spices and bales of cloth, he did not know one more queenly. [10]
- It was a steel thing with a long pin to it, with which his long cloth outside garment was fastened together in front. [5]
- Upon this was spread a cloth which from appearance might have been as long in use as the towel in the barroom. [5]
- Lali, recovering herself, spoke a few soft words of congratulation, and then appeared to busy herself in putting little touches to Marion's dress, that soft persuasion of fingers which does so much to coax mere cloth into a sort of living harmony with the body. [11]
- Mrs. Hanbury started, so vividly there arose before her eyes a brave and dashing figure, clad in grey English cloth, walking by her side on a sunny autumn morning in the Rue de la Paix. [9]
- The cook was slovenly, and so was the table, and it had no cloth on it. [5]
- There, on the skin of a huge bear trimmed with blue cloth, lay Hadrian's favorite Antinous. [10]
- The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on. [5]
- For a minute she remained motionless; but the cloth, which had fallen low over her face, waved gently to and fro, moved by her fluttering breath. [10]
- Red-haired Gitta was sewing another patch of cloth upon her rough husband's already well-mended jerkin by the dim light of a small lamp, into which she had put some fat and a bit of rag for a wick. [10]
- But she was seen by the owner of the cloth. [5]
- At last they sat down on either side of the white cloth the waiter had laid, for even the gods must eat. [9]
- Portugais left the room, and when he came back, Charley was dressed in the suit of grey fulled cloth. [11]
- He had cautiously ripped a small opening in a seam of the cloth, so he could see and hear what was passing in the lighted room of the woman he loved. [10]
- Now, too, she remembered for what purpose the sculptor was said to have lured Gula, the sailor's wife, and her own young sister Taus, to his studio, and in increasing excitement she drew the cloth also from the bust beside the Demeter. [10]
- Just as many regard it as an act of piety to work an altar cloth or to cushion a pulpit. [4]
- Peter, when he read that letter, seemed to see Mr. Howard Spence in the flesh; or arrayed, rather, in the kind of cloth alluringly draped in the show-windows of fashionable tailors. [9]
- Then he went quietly up to the portrait of Sirona, raised the cloth with which it was covered, and stood before it a long time sunk in thought. [10]
- There was no question of warmth, for in snow-time every house was banked up with earth above the foundations, the cracks and intersections of windows and doors filled with cloth from the village looms; and wood was for the chopping far and near. [11]
- At last the portrait-head had found its right position, shrouded still in a cloth to preserve it from the marks of workmen's hands. [10]
- It is a pleasure to come across such a hero as this in real life, and not have to invent him, as the saying is, out of the whole cloth. [4]
- I'll fetch a piece of cloth at once for such an honorable gentleman, or even two pieces with pleasure. [2]
- All of these performers have a cloth on the ground beside them for the reception of contributions, and even the poorest of the people give a trifle and hope that the sacrifice will be blessed to him. [5]
- Popincourt's lodgings, and people turned to look at the pair, one carrying something covered with a white cloth, evidently a savoury dish of some kind--the other with a cage in which a handsome canary hopped about, well pleased with the world. [11]
- In the back part of the ship was a roof made of ivy, lotus-blossoms and roses; beneath it stood a milk-white cow with golden horns, covered with a cloth of purple. [10]
- He was as pale as this cloth, and was one of the sort whose grief eats into their heart. [10]
- A cloth, the Paiti-dhana, was bound round the heads of the priests, the ends of which covered the mouth, and thus preserved the pure fire from pollution by human breath. [10]
- Dr. Bellows trot out the fast nags of the cloth for me when I get to New York. [5]
- This man was only a tailor, dressed in fulled cloth, and no doubt his past life would not bear inspection; and she was the Notary's wife, and had said to people in the village that she would find out the man's history from himself. [11]
- The vehicles met on the road were a variety of the prairie schooner, long wagons with a top of hoops over which is stretched a cotton cloth. [4]
- The wall spaces on the right and left are occupied by high bookcases filled with respectable volumes in calf and dark cloth bindings. [9]
- Now, the mob on the contrary--who think themselves beautifully dressed in a threadbare cloth hanging round their brown loins--are far better off. [10]
- Maria had put on her light-blue cloth dress with Mechlin lace in the square neck, for her husband particularly liked to see her in this gown and he must surely return to-day. [10]
- With these were older volumes in their dark original leather, and recent ones in cloth or paper. [6]
- After the name of the son is written, "Dyer in cloth and silk. [4]
- One more example of the method of wringing a dry cloth for drops of evidence ought to be enough to show the whole spirit of the paper. [6]
- It is that of the man who makes cloth, or the grocer who opens a shop--neither has a right to complain if the public does not buy of him. [4]
- My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold, and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable. [5]
- Here were barrels of malt being unloaded; there, great sacks of grain, bags of dried fruits, bales of home-made cloth, and loads of fine-sawn boards and timber. [11]
- I remember remarks of his in the market-place a year before, as he and I watched the peasant in his sabots and the good-wife in her homespun cloth. [11]
- The blue cloth of his coat set off the extreme paleness of a small but serene face and high round forehead. [11]
- One saw hundreds of French soldiers, of course, in all sorts of uniforms, from the new grey blue and visor to the traditional cloth blouse and kepi; once in a while a smart French officer. [9]
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