How To Use cambric In A Sentence
- They were arranged, at any rate, to appear as if they grew out of her shoulders; she was arrayed in flowing white draperies over her own little cambrick frock; and then she was ready. Melbourne House
- His work that will be exhibited to mark the world cup, Football Print, is a graphic piece using cambric and wall paint as a medium.
- In a few minutes he came out with two cambrick pocket handkerchiefs -- I remember they had a fancy violet edge -- and he gave the handkerchiefs, saying: ` When he puts on this one the pain will cease, and this one is for him to sleep with. ' Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
- The strangers’ house is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer color than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. The New Atlantis
- Upon her head was placed a coif to protect the holy oil from running down - the coif, we know from the accounts, was of cambric lace; there were gloves of white linen and fine cotton wool to dry up the oil after the anointing.
- The strangers 'house is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer color than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. The New Atlantis
- The writer detected a large amount of arsenic in a specimen of cloth known as "Foulard cambric," which had been made into a dress; after wearing the dress a short time severe conjunctivitis was produced, together with nasal catarrh, pharyngitis, and symptoms of gastric irritation. Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses - A Dress A Day
- The strangers 'house is a fair and spacious house, built of brick, of somewhat a bluer colour than our brick; and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. Ideal Commonwealths
- After their coffee before the open fire -- she herself had had "cambric" coffee -- Peter smoked his cigar, while she curled up in silence in the twin to his big cushioned chair and sampled her chocolates. Turn About Eleanor
- To that end knowing how, as well as their Mistriss, to Hood themselves, curl their locks, and wantonly overspread their breasts with a peece of fine Lawn, or Cambrick, that they seem rather to be finically over shadowed then covered, and may the better allure the weak eys of the beholders. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple