56 examples of oilcloth in sentences

The kitchen was long and low, bright with the sunset shining in at two windows and cheery with its carpeting of red, yellow and green mingled confusingly in the handsome oilcloth.

Unlike Hollis, Marjorie was the outgrowth of home influences; the kitchen oilcloth had something to do with her views of life, and her mother's broad face and good-humored eyes had a great deal more.

Her mother's broad, gingham back and the twist of iron gray hair low in her neck greeted her as she opened the door, then the odor of hot biscuits intruded itself, and then there came a shout from somebody kneeling on the oilcloth near the stove and pushing sticks of dry wood through its blazing open door.

"We are to have company for tea," announced the figure kneeling on the oilcloth as she banged the stove door.

With an intent face, and slow, careful fingers, Marjorie peeled the handsome apple without breaking the coils of the skin, then poised her hand and gave the shining, green rings a toss over her shoulder to the oilcloth.

Linnet laughed again as she stooped to pick up the doubtful O and crooked S from the oilcloth.

By the time I had done this and thoroughly washed the oilcloth on the stairs and landing, the caretaker had returned.

On the previous day she had been sitting on the cold new oilcloth of the topmost stairs, minutely instructing a maid in the craft of polishing banisters.

Dimples of light burned through it, dotting the carpet and the black-and-white marbled oilcloth of the hall.

It was the imprint of a wet foot on the oilcloth of the passage; not an ordinary footprint, but a queer, soft, flabby, spreading imprint, that gave me a feeling of extraordinary horror.

There was nothing in the middle room, or in the kitchen or pantry; but everywhere went the wet footmarks through all the rooms, showing plainly wherever there were woodwork or oilcloth; and always there was the smell.

The place was smoky, the tables were covered with oilcloth, the floor with sawdust, and from the kitchen came a rancid odor of fish fried over several times, which almost nauseated me.

His manners were quiet, and would not have been disagreeable, but for an air of uncomfortably stiff solemnity, which draped him from head to foot like a robe of moral oilcloth, and might almost be said to rustle audibly.

" "No, Sir, certainly not," he remarked, wrapping his moral oilcloth about him again.

They also calculated how much carpet and oilcloth would be necessary, and what style of furniture should be put in the parlour.

My servant had, of course, preceded me, and by the time I had made a partial attempt at cleaning myself, he had brought in a meal of sorts and laid it on the oilcloth-covered table by the stove.

I've been worrying you for months for that oilcloth.

" Isadore Kantor, aged eleven and hunched with a younger Kantor over an oilcloth-covered table, hunched himself still deeper in barter for a large crystal marble with a candy stripe down its center.

There was an eloquence to that waiting, laid-out table, the print of the family already gathered about it; the dynastic high chair, throne of each succeeding Kantor; an armchair drawn up before the paternal moustache-cup; the ordinary kitchen chair of Mannie Kantor, who spilled things, an oilcloth sort of bib dangling from its back; the little chair of Leon Kantor, cushioned in an old family album that raised his chin above the table.

A lamp burned on the oilcloth-covered table.

We kneaded dough on an oilcloth, or gum-blanket as the Yankee prisoners called it, and baked the dough by spreading it on barrel-heads and propping them before the fire.

So, with a cough which was meant to serve as an apology for the unintentional rudeness, he turned his face away, and continued his gloomy revery among the odd patterns of the oilcloth on the floor of the aisle.

Above this switchboard is a brief instruction: one switch warms the floor, which is not carpeted, but covered by a substance like soft oilcloth; one warms the mattress (which is of metal with resistance coils threaded to and fro in it); and the others warm the wall in various degrees, each directing current through a separate system of resistances.

*enamorarse de* fall in love *encaje* m. lace *encajera* f. lacemaker *encantador* charming *encaramar(se)* perch *encargado de negocios* m. chargé d'affaires *encargar* intrust; *se* take charge; *se del mando* assume command *encargo* m. charge; request *encender* light *encerado* (pp. of *encerar* wax) m. oilcloth, oilskin *encerrar* shut up; shut in; lock up *encierro* m. confinement *encontrar

So Ambrose paced the sticky oilcloth this morning as a man who has reached the hill of decision.

56 examples of  oilcloth  in sentences