Sentence Examples

1. With the means thus accruing I proceeded to procure at intervals, cambric muslin, very fine, in pieces of twelve yards each twine a lot of the varnish of caoutchouc a large and deep basket of wicker-work, made to order and several other articles necessary in the construction and equipment of a balloon of extraordinary dimensions.
2. I found it, however, altogether too expensive, and was not sure, upon the whole, whether cambric muslin with a coating of gum caoutchouc, was not equally as good.
3. This winding-sheet was nothing more than a beautiful piece of cambric, which the young girl had bought a fortnight before.
4. He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
5. It had received three coats of varnish, and I found the cambric muslin to answer all the purposes of silk itself, quite as strong and a good deal less expensive.
6. A little bear of a man, he wore a thick cambric doublet and matching blue breeches.
7. As for Benedetto, he gracefully wiped his lips with a fine cambric pocket-handkerchief.