Cloths

Examples

• For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Please send me my desk and some CLOTHS--I'm in pumps and a white tye (something like Miss M's stockings)--I've seventy in it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The fat is then packed in cloths set in moulds and a slowly increasing pressure squeezes out the pure amber colored oil, leaving the stearine behind. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Bonjeau's Improvements in Plain Cloths, 1834. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The bulk of the trade was in leaf tobacco, and domestic cotton-cloths and calicoes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His father soon decided that his son’s bent did not lie in the direction of a dealer in cloths, and, casting about for a scientific career, chose that of medicine for Galileo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Brilliant cloths of many hues and strange patterns formed the soft cushion covering of the dais upon which they reclined about her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The edges of the cloths were first crimped or fluted and then sewed by a running stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Washed with an aqueous solution (four drachms of acid to a gallon of water), or kept in it, or wrapped in cloths soaked in this water, keeps fresh for a very long time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• About this time, both in England and America, machines had been devised for sewing lengths of calico and other cloths together, previous to bleaching, dyeing or printing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Butter, cheese, and other foods sensitive to heat are placed in porous vessels wrapped in wet cloths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Rapid evaporation of the water from the wet cloths keeps the contents of the jars cool, and that without expense other than the muscular energy needed for wetting the cloths frequently. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You don't wrap up meat in your mistress' best table-cloths? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There the children were seated, and huge baskets, covered up with white cloths, and great smoking tin vessels were brought out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is said that they had no bed, and, to save the expense of one, always slept on a bundle of packing-cloths under the counter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Meanwhile Ursula was peeping under one of the cloths. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The manufacture of fancy woven cloths, cassimeres, worsted coatings, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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