75 adjectives to describe linens

A few moments later the three found themselves installed in comfortable quarters, where clean linen and dry outer clothing Was laid out for them.

" "That," said Porphyry, "is our own Platonic dirty linen, and I heartily wish we were washing it elsewhere.

" When I got home that nite, I looked like an angel carryin' a palm-leaf fan in his hand, and clothed in purple and fine linen.

Harn, coarse linen, Hartsome, hearty, Hash, stupid, fellow, dolt.

There is a, shriek of objurgation in the air, and a flutter of soiled linen on the breeze.

However, Mathieu managed affairs so diplomatically that at last the other not only became reconciled to the terms, but provided the money to purchase a little linen, and even agreed to supply pocket-money to the extent of ten francs a month.

* Falstaff's "Buck-Basket" has puzzled the commentators; but Dr. Jamieson thus explains it:Bouk is the Scotch word for a lye used to steep foul linen in, before it is washed in water; the buckbasket, therefore, is the basket employed to carry clothes, after they have been bouked, to the washing-place.

In a moment the starched linen fluttered out, fell into the river, and was carried swirling away.

replied Psyche, hurrying on her gray linen pinafore.

I asked, as he festooned the wet linen out of the way, and prepared to enjoy himself as best he could.

On stepping on deck Hornby, who like myself wore a clean suit of white linen as the most sensible dinner-garb in a hot climate, came forward to greet me, and took me along to the stern where, lying in a long wicker deck-chair beneath the awning, was a tall, dark-eyed, clean-shaven man of about forty, also dressed in cool white linen.

But to gain just a few minutes, eager as she was to cook the crawfish, she did not take the trouble to put on dry linen.

Bareheaded and barefooted, clad in a robe of pure white linen, in an ecstasy of joy and thankfulness mingled with profound contrition, Godfrey entered the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and knelt at the tomb of his Lord.

To her he was like the artist who smears himself and his smock with paint while in his studio, but appears at dinner in spotless linen without even a whiff of benzine about him to suggest his occupation.

Major Carteret, though dressed in brown linen, had thrown off his coat for greater comfort.

Fairfax and his guests, were served at a table within the small cabin, and we had a glimpse of them, and their surroundings, the table prettily decorated with snowy linen, and burnished silver, while John, in a white jacket, waited upon them obsequiously, lingering behind his master's chair.

She was dressed in yellow linen, and wore a gold bracelet on a well-turned arm.

Her laced linen and fine nightgown were soon put on, and away they marched, leaving the family in a surprise not to be described.

How she revels in the silver brocades, the violet-colored velvet robes, the crimson velvet carpets, the purple damask curtains fringed with gold and silver, the embroidered fleurs de lis, the wedding-caskets, the cordons of diamonds, the clusters of emeralds en poires with diamonds, and the Isabelle-colored linen, whereby hangs a tale!

Besides this, it is likewise advisable to take a stock of coloured linen.

So oiled linen was stretched across her windows, and a carpet laid for her feet at table in the hall.

She thus suffers more and more as a consumer of cloth, until by the fall of her prices she can either afford to sell linen as cheap as Flanders, or to export some other commodity which she could not export before.

His mother had given him a couple of neckcloths, and carefully made some little shirts for him; but when her Samuel came to see the widow, they were replaced by much finer linen.

Leslie had hanging upon her finger, also, the finest and whitest and most graceful of all possible little splint baskets, only just big enough to carry a bit of such work as was in it now,a strip of sheer, delicate grass-linen, which needle and thread, with her deft guidance, were turning into a cobweb border, by a weaving of lace-lines, strong, yet light, where the woof of the original material had been drawn out.

The homespun linen of the table-cloths looked very white on the dark green of the rich grass.

75 adjectives to describe  linens