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Sentences ending with linen

I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
She could not write, but a runner from Harrodstown who was a friend of Tom's had carried all the way to Cahokia, in the pocket with his despatches, a fold of nettle-bark linen. [9]
Mary stayed with the widow helping her to wet handkerchiefs and to make bandages out of old linen. [10]
Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen! [12]
The messenger replied that on his way he had bandaged the wounds of a severely injured man with the upper part of his apron, and the chamberlain instantly went to his baggage and gave him a piece of finely plaited linen. [10]
Her figure was straight yet supple, somewhat fuller than is modern beauty, with hints of Juno-like stateliness to come; and the curves of her bust, the long lines of her limbs, were not obscured by her absolutely plain gown of soft, light-brown linen. [11]
Let me have some more strips of linen. [2]
He had always piqued her, he was so superior to the ordinary enchantments of youth, beauty, and fine linen. [11]
Thus, he speaks of "the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen! [6]
The beggar said nothing, but motioned to him to lift the sick man upright, while he poured some tincture down his throat, and bound the head and neck about with saturated linen. [11]

Short sentences using linen

Fetch some linen! [9]
His linen! [12]

Sentences containing linen two or more times

There was a certain dignity about her temple withal,--for instance, if a judge wore linen, that linen must not be soiled. [9]

More example sentences with the word linen in them

What delight it would also have given her to provide her son's linen, and how much finer was the Flanders material than that made at Villagarcia! [10]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
They dressed in white linen from head to foot, like the old gentleman, and wore broad Panama hats. [5]
He was in white linen and wore a broad hat, which he took from his head as he advanced. [9]
My overcoat pockets were stuffed with German cigars and linen packages of American smoking tobacco, and a porter was following us around with this overcoat on his arm, and gradually getting it upside down. [5]
The most costly were covered with fine red linen, wound about with strings of beads and gold ornaments, and with the name of the dead painted on the upper side. [10]
Many a time we had discussed the pitcher and the deed, and fingered the linen, now talking in French, now in English; for in France, years before, he had been a valet to an English officer at King Louis's court. [11]
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. [5]
Then the linen was not only washed, but duly starched, sprinkled, and ironed. [11]
Now when all was made ready Aunt Jacoba begged of Ann that she should hold the sore closed while Master Ulsenius made the linen bands wet. [10]
His own couch was covered with fresh linen for the guest--Ulrich already lay in his bed, apparently asleep. [10]
He, who was used to linen sheets and eider down, was without rough blanket or shelter; who was used to the best table in the state, was reduced to husks. [9]
There was, however, uneasiness in her face; her fingers slightly trembled on the linen she was holding. [11]
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]
She was deft, too, was Polly Ann, and spun from nettle bark many a cut of linen that could scarce be told from flax. [9]
Pressing their heads together, they gazed out of the open linen tilt which arched above the first cart or crowded to the little windows of the coaches to see Ratisbon. [10]
His dress answered to his face--if indeed that could be called dress which consisted of a linen apron and a white kerchief thrown over his shoulders after sundown. [10]
At the same time she raised the end of the linen drapery with her left hand, spreading it over him like a protecting canopy. [10]
His hands were thrust down in the pockets of his linen coat; her hands opening and shutting her parasol slightly. [11]
Their own tragedies they hid beneath their grey coats and bodices; their dirty linen they never washed in public, save in the scandal such as this where the Society must intervene. [11]
The people group themselves about the decks in their snowy white linen, and read, smoke, sew, play cards, talk, nap, and so on. [5]
Both gentlemen drew their swords and advanced to the middle of the lawn, and stood opposite one another, with flowing linen shirts open at the throat, and bared heads. [9]
She could do the work here as well as anywhere else, and told herself that it was all the same to her whether Phaon or her father's linen lay there. [10]
Then, after visiting the wash-house, the bleachcry, the linen presses, the cellar, the garret, and even the beehives to see that everything was in order, and emerging from the hands of the maid as a well-dressed noblewoman, she received visit after visit. [10]
The something was the vision of a young woman in a brown linen suit seated in a runabout and driving a horse almost as handsome as Pepper. [9]
But Abraham Lincoln, the uncouth man in the linen duster with the tousled hair, knew it. [9]
The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms. [10]
As I reached the gallery Madame la Vicomtesse, gowned in brown linen for riding, rose quickly from her chair and came forward to meet me. [9]
A week before the French had had boot leather and linen issued to them, which they had given out to the prisoners to make up into boots and shirts for them. [2]
So here was the end of Voban's little romance--of the fine linen from Ste. [11]
At eleven o'clock the doorbell rang, and Ellen appeared at the entrance to the linen closet with a card in her hand. [9]
The principals of the different orders of priests had also found places at the table, and among them the chief of the haruspices, while the rest of the priests, all in snow-white linen robes, sat, with much dignity, in a large semicircle, two rows deep. [10]
I didn't let the crew see it; for the fellow, even in his delirium, appeared to know I had exposed the thing, and drew the linen close in his fingers, and for a long time held it at his throat. [11]
I remembered at that moment, as he stood in the crowd looking at me, the piles of linen which he had bought at Ste. [11]
A ponderous tow-headed Swiss woman, who put on many fine-lady airs, but was evidently more used to washing linen than wearing it, sat in a corner seat and put her legs across into the opposite one, propping them intermediately with her up-ended valise. [5]
I went to St. George's in the morning clothed in the thinnest of linen, and reached home at five in the afternoon with two overcoats on. [5]
The finest linen spun and woven in Villagarcia was used for the purpose, and the sewing was done by her own skilful hands. [10]
Three times he sprang up from the soft wool, covered with linen sheets, and looked out to convince himself that no storm had risen. [10]
But first take some food to the groom in the stable, and put fresh linen on my bed. [10]
Clean shaven, with snowy linen and lace, his own natural hair, silver white, tied in a queue behind, he had large eloquent wondering eyes that seemed always looking, looking beyond the thing he saw. [11]
She'll wear like silk, but she's not linen for everybody's washin'. [11]
I knew that she was coming, but I saw her first at the gallery's end, the roses she held red against the white linen of her gown. [9]
Taking up another, she touched it with a moistened finger to test the heat, and, leaning above the table again, passed it over the linen for a few moments, smiling at something that was in her mind. [11]
As for Kuni, she had gone to carry some linen from her own scanty store to the two babies, who were as naked as little frogs. [10]
Here she sat sewing upon some coarse linen for a poor fisherwoman's babe when the Seigneur came near. [11]
There you shall see waxlights on the table, and finger-glasses with green leaves, and fine linen and napkins, and plenty of silver--even silver wine-coolers, and beakers of fame and beauty, and flowers, flowers everywhere, and fruit of exquisite charm. [11]
And on some Saturday afternoons a grim figure in a linen duster and a silk skull-cap took a seat in the forward car. [9]
Twice he went round, still chanting, but the third time he stooped to pick up a little strip of linen which had fallen from the window, and concealed it in his sleeve. [11]
I could not remain constantly beside the corpse, so I locked up the paper in the linen chest. [10]
Besides, he constantly raised a large linen handkerchief to his face, and his huge chest laboured for breath as he hastily repeated to Eva and the abbess what he had just announced to Els in a few rapid words. [10]
Polly Ann was radiant in a white linen gown, woven and sewed by her own hands. [9]
A jerk, and Quijada had stripped the ruff from his neck, and, as this did not suffice, he cut with his sword blade and his teeth a piece of fine linen from his shirt. [10]
That night a pony and cart took away from the house of Annette's father the chest of drawers, the bed, the bedding, the pieces of linen, and the pile of yarn which had been made ready so long against Benoit's coming. [11]
He spoke with pompous exaggeration, in a shrill, harsh voice, wiping his face meanwhile with his white linen robe or gasping for air, when breath failed him, like a fish stranded on the beach. [10]
But what a pleasure it is to show the bloated fellow the door when he pulls out the linen purse! [10]
It is a perfectly still morning, with a brilliant sun, and very hot--outside; but I am under cover of the linen hood, and it is cool and shady in here. [5]
The linen was ordinary, the rooms small; but all--he did not take this into account--irreproachably clean. [11]
I saw my opportunity: I was about to return to London, and had "listed" my soiled linen for the wash. [5]
He saw an old man in shining white linen robes, riding on a fine white ass through the crowd which reverently made way for him. [10]
Their coats were off, and the white linen of their shirts looked gracious; while the upraised left hand of the fighters balancing the sword-thrust and the weight of the body had an almost singular beauty. [11]
At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began. [2]
The microscopical examinations of mummy-bandages made by Dr. Ure and Prof. Czermak have proved that byssus is linen, not cotton. [10]
A single band of linen, soiled by the journey, was wound about his throat, and I remember oddly the buttons stuck on his knees and cuffs, and these silk-embroidered in a criss-cross pattern of lighter gray. [9]
The white linen of her night-dress showed. [11]
Down the front of her dress fell a tucked apron of the whitest linen, and in her hand was a cup of steaming broth. [9]
She would have no English-made linen in that household. [9]
There he had met Mrs. Whelan, and for presents of tobacco, and purple and fine linen, he had led her to her consort. [11]
He wan's to marry our Elsie so 's to live in the big house 'n' get all the money 'n' all the silver things 'n' all the chists full o' linen 'n' beautiful clothes. [6]
But there are many men in Korosko whose lives are not as clean linen. [11]
I remember that Madame was lolling listless in the garden, daintily arrayed in fine linen, trying to talk to Mr. Mason, when a sound startled us. [9]
The folds of loose linen were lifted from the face, and all three looked at it long in silence. [11]
Here comes a long-stepping trotter in a sulky; man in a brown linen coat and wide-awake hat,--dissolute, horsey-looking man. [4]
Give me that linen wrapper, Olympias, and then he may come! [10]
A strip of linen to bandage it! [10]
Now, take a linen cloth--that one will do though it is not very fine. [10]
You wear white linen by inherited instinct. [6]
But there are linen and posts to be had in Memphis. [10]
On her bed, like a mesh of white clouds, lay the soft linen and lace and the delicate clothes of the night; and by the bed were her tiny blue slippers to match the blue dressing-gown. [11]
So still she lay until one who gave her into the world stooped, and drawing open the linen at her breast, nestled a little life there, which presently gave a tiny cry, the first since it came forth. [11]
And as a last office, set a dainty breakfast on a linen napkin on the rock, heating the coffee in a chafing-dish. [9]
As David spoke, Kaid's face grew darker, his fingers fumbled vaguely with the linen of the loose white robe he wore. [11]
When she read it, she spread the paper on the table, smoothed it as though it were a beautiful piece of linen, then she stretched out her hands in happy benediction. [11]
So, at least, it seemed to Honora as she stood, refreshed with a new white linen gown, hesitating on the threshold of her door before descending. [9]
Without it, it is like a man who is always tight-buttoned for want of any linen to show. [6]
I can hardly institute proceedings against a bit of linen! [10]
And at that instant, to cap the situation, a rotund little man with a round face under a linen biretta grasped Nick by the hand, and cried in painful but sincere English:-- "Monsieur, you mek my daughter ver' happy. [9]
The apathetic waiter in the soiled linen jacket he addressed as "comrade. [9]
He placed them in the hands of the old man, who drew a clean towel of coarse linen from a small cupboard in the wall above his head. [11]
Sometimes she trembled in indignation, and then afterwards gave herself to the work on the estate or in the household--its reform and its rearrangement; though the house was like most in Jamaica, had adequate plate, linen, glass and furniture. [11]
They're putting him in his linen now. [11]
He was now in his linen and small clothes and looked like some untrained Hercules. [11]
At this point in her meditations she consulted the mirror, to behold a modest, slim-waisted young woman becomingly arrayed in white linen, whose cheeks were aglow with health, whose eyes seemingly reflected the fire of a distant high vision. [9]
An old man in coarse blue linen came out of the lodge and spoke to me. [9]
So used had I grown to seeing her in the simple linen dresses she had worn in the country, a costume associated with exclusive possession, that the sight of her travelling suit and hat renewed in me an agony of apprehension. [9]
Their credo is, 'I believe in beauty and fine linen, and the thing that is not gauche. [11]
Seated on a horse talking to the overseer was a fat little man in white linen who pulled off his hat and bowed profoundly to the ladies. [9]
When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive. [5]
Monsieur Gratiot slapped his linen breeches. [9]
Presently he seated himself again, and, still chanting, spread out the linen in his palm and read the characters upon it. [11]

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