To ease his own legs, he changed his position, and dragged a corner of the sailcloth down off the little pile of provisions, and doubled it under his knees.

Someone had stored the hall full of coils of rope and sailcloth, but in the midst of it the same tall clock was ticking out its cycle, and the portraits of the Shelton family still hung against the white panels.

Combs, brooms, torches, ropes, matting, and sailcloth are made of its fibers.

Some are made of boards and some of sailcloth; some partly of one and some partly of the other; again, others are made of stone and turf, brick or brush.

"Caught my blasted foot in a lashin'rotten sailcloth, that, Bucky.

The exiles established themselves as silk workers in Spitalfields, cotton spinners at Bideford, tapestry weavers at Exeter, wool carders at Taunton, kersey makers at Norwich, weavers at Canterbury, bat makers at Wandsworth, sailcloth makers at Ipswich, workers in calico in Bromley, glass in Sussex, paper at Laverstock, cambric at Edinburgh.

"Grandy King George" of Old Calabar, for example, asked of his friend Captain Lace a mirror six feet square, an arm chair "for my salf to sat in," a gold mounted cane, a red and a blue coat with gold lace, a case of razors, pewter plates, brass flagons, knives and forks, bullet and cannon-ball molds, and sailcloth for his canoes, along with many other things for use in trade.

The terror of the seas had cut its way through the other vessel like a needle through sailcloth!

"There," he said, "you may sleep there for to-night," and he pointed to a great heap of sailcloth beside the mast.

Crewkerne manufactures sailcloth.

Crewkerne is a clean and compact little place, with some reputation for the manufacture of sailcloth, twine, and shirts.