17 examples of camel's-hair in sentences

A camel's-hair brush, a bent spoon on a long handle, a sponge tied to a stick, and one or two other instruments which use will suggest, are all that are needed for keeping the sides of the tank free from growth or removing obnoxious substances from its bottom.

When I had, with great labor, adjusted these, as I thought, firmly, I perceived that some of the wax was on the hairs and would make them yet coarser, and they were already too coarse; so I washed my little camel's-hair brush which I had been using, and began to wash them with clear alcohol.

Abel came next, but petitioned in vain, Because he might meet with his brother Cain! Noah, too, was refused, lest his weakness for wine Should delay him at every tavern sign; And John the Baptist could not get a vote, On account of his old fashioned, camel's-hair coat; And the Penitent Thief, who died on the cross, Was reminded that all his bones were broken!

Dr. Goodale says of this experiment,"Let a young seedling of corn be grown on damp paper in the manner described in No. 1, and when the longest root is a few centimetres long let it be marked very carefully by means of India ink, or purple ink, put on with a delicate camel's-hair pencil just one centimetre apart.

The tent was of camel's-hair cloth, spacious, and open at the sides.

"Sometimes," says the Sire de Joinville, "he went into his garden dressed in a camel's-hair coat, a surcoat of linsey-woolsey without sleeves, a black silk cloak without a hood, and a hat trimmed with peacocks' feathers.

Instantly there came storming across the plain a wild cavalcade of tribesmen, with rifles slung across their shoulders, pistols and cutlasses in their belts, and twists of camel's-hair bound about their turbans.

When he desired muslin, calico, and camel's-hair shawls for his family, he put his finger on India; and when he called for those great staples of commerce, indigo, saltpetre, jute, flax, and linseed, India sent them at his bidding.

love!everywhere! everywhere!under diamonds and Attleboro' "jewelry,"lifting the marrowy camel's-hair, and rustling even the black bombazine!No, no,I think she never was pretty, but she was young once, and wore bright ginghams, and, perhaps, gay merinos.

The possessive case and its governing noun, combining to form an adjective, whether literal or metaphorical, should generally be written with both apostrophe and hyphen; as, "Neats-foot oil,""Calfs-foot jelly,""A carp's-tongue drill,""A bird's-eye view,""The states'-rights' party,""A camel's-hair shawl."

This done, Kamalia passed the powder through a camel's-hair cloth; and then repassed it through a finer cloth.

" "I've heard of camel's-hair shawls but not of camel's-hair breeches!" murmured Tutt.

" "I've heard of camel's-hair shawls but not of camel's-hair breeches!" murmured Tutt.

His cherchia of jade-green silk was bound with a ukal, or fillet of camel's-hair; his burnous, also silk, showed tenderest shades of lavender and rose.

Embroidered cloths of camel's-hair and silk covered the walls.

The next afternoon one of the Miss Hiticutts from across the way came, in a splendid camel's-hair shawl and a shabby dress.

Adelaide showed me her camel's-hair scarfs which Desmond had brought, and her dresses.

17 examples of  camel's-hair  in sentences