"Unbleached" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over her whole figure. The faded buff jacket, the not altogether immaculate apron of unbleached calico, were transfigured by the all-pervading sunshine; golden lights outlined the tanned face and hands; as for the hair, it was at that moment ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... ley, the law libra, pound sterling, pound weight librarse, to get rid of libre, free libro, book libro de facturas, invoice book libro mayor, ledger liebre, hare lienzos, linens lienzos adamascados, diapers lienzos morenos, brown (unbleached) linens ligero, slight, light limitacion, curtailment, limitation limitar, to limit limite, limit limones, lemons limpiar, to clean limpio, clean lingotes de hierro, pig-iron lino, flax linon, olan, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... common stained wood, furnished with a tester and flimsy mosquito bar, through the grim and smoky folds of which were visible sheets of unbleached factory muslin, an emaciated mattress, and a pair of lean pillows, which seemed quite lost in the much too large cases which covered them. The boy sighed as he took in all the dinginess and gloom, and his heart throbbed yearningly for the pleasant room which, even in adversity, had ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... household matters. Everything was arranged here with order and neatness, but there was nothing superfluous; there was a place for everything, and everything seemed to be in its place, if we except a large quantity of unbleached calico, which had been unrolled, and had ...
— Aunt Mary • Mrs. Perring
... watchful fowl is placed, will be able to command the best view to be had in the 'Minerva.' The wings at the side (1 and 2) are to be regarded as ornamental. The balloon will be 150 feet in diameter, made expressly at Lyons of unbleached silk, coated within and without with indict-rubber. This globe sustains a ship, which contains or has attached to it all the things necessary for the convenience, the observations, and even the pleasures of ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
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