How To Use Cambric In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All about him my lord's clothing was strewn; Mechlin ruffles and cravats adorned one chair, silk hose another; gorgeous coats hung on their backs; shoes of every description, red-heeled and white, riding boots and slippers, stood in a row awaiting attention; wigs perched coquettishly on handy projections, and piles of white cambric shirts peeped out from an almost finished bag.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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‘“MERCIE — thank you,” said the Lady Flabella, as the lively but devoted Cherizette plentifully besprinkled with the fragrant compound the Lady Flabella’s MOUCHOIR of finest cambric, edged with richest lace, and emblazoned at the four corners with the
Nicholas Nickleby
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During the perusal of this devoir, she sat placidly busy, her eyes and fingers occupied with the formation of a “riviere” or open-work hem round a cambric handkerchief; she said nothing, and her face and forehead, clothed with a mask of purely negative expression, were as blank of comment as her lips.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc.
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George Foster was monkshood, a cambric robe -- a "domino" -- serving to give the blue color note, and a very correct imitation of the flower's helmet answering the purpose of a head-dress.
Ethel Morton's Enterprise
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I lined it with Musidora's own mattress and quilt, spread the "pinked" cambric on them, laid the remains (no figurative phrase in this connection) upon this bed, folding the one arm left to the unfortunate across her breast, and wrapped the edges of the winding-sheet over her face.
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood
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Beneath the ruffled cambric of her night dress the proportions of it seemed huge.
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Neither could she approve his striped pyjamas, coarse and unpleasing in contrast to Maman's ribboned cambric nightdress.
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To this day the odour of matting brings back to Honora the sense of closed shutters; of a stifling south wind stirring their slats at noonday; the vision of Aunt Mary, cool and placid in a cambric sacque, sewing by the window in the upper hall, and the sound of fruit venders crying in the street, or of ragmen in the alley -- "Rags, bottles, old iron!
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Occasionally both underside of lid and inside of case were lined with plain cambric.
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The linnings, the diaper all damaged, Mrs. Cranchs cambrick mildewed, happily the wollen cloths were only wet, the leather Gloves quite rotton.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
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My sister Eliane was delicate and wore flannel next her skin; but my only underclothing consisted of cambric chemise, petticoats, and drawers, these last reaching to my ankles and terminating in frills that fell over the foot in its little sandaled shoe.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Our room was soon filled with all the foreign merchants who lived in the Khan, and the principal town merchants; we sold to them a few silk handkerchiefs and coarse cambrick, and were plagued with their company for the whole remaining part of the day.
Travels in Nubia
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Some very pretty specimens have cambric motifs embroidered in coloured ribbon work, and muslin, embroidery, and lace edged with frillings of all kinds are used.
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She chose an apron of some fine stuff, such as cambric, and having so prepared the wax that it should be sufficiently soft to yield and spread with the warmth of the hand, she gave it a first rude shape by holding it in her hands and moulding it rudely with pressure applied at discretion, while, as a portrait-painter, she looked at the countenance and consulted the visage and features she would imitate.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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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.
New Atlantis
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And she told Jenette, and Jenette told me, so's I know it is true, "that she might go right on, and get the parasol cover, and the trimmins to the dresses, cambrick, and linin 'and things, and hooks and eyes.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
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Not long up, her cambric dressing-gown was held tightly about her throat as the chill seeped through the air.
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The first, from an inconsiderable village, is become one of the most flourishing places of the kingdom, enriched by the linen, cambrick, flowered lawn, and silk manufactures.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The tent was made of reinforced cambric, fawn coloured, with sewn - in groundsheet, and at each end a circular sleeve-door and ventilator.
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The tunic was laced up the front, and its sleeves had long since gone the way of bandages; she left it open at the throat for freedom of movement, and wore a patched cambric shirt beneath.
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Not long up, her cambric dressing-gown was held tightly about her throat as the chill seeped through the air.
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The camp is the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with no running water or electricity but with four-poster beds and mosquito nets and cambric sheets and bucket showers and paraffin lamps and butlers.
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The neck was dressed with a layer of four or five three-cornered cravats, artistically laid, and surmounted with a cambrick stock, pleated and buckled behind.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
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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.
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This was a simple dressing, however, of a white cambrick frock; no finery, seeing that Daisy was to put on and off various things in the course of the evening.
Melbourne House
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The most intrepid veteran dares no more than n wipe his face with his cambric sudarium.
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She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley, scratches her bottom through the cambric, and yawns.
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And, to wash it all down, he had a little blue cup of tea, "cambric" of course, quite as his mother would have wished.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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If a more satiny look than cheesecloth gives is wished, let the overdresses be of light-colored cambric with the glazed side turned outward.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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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.
The New Atlantis: Paras 1-29
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France be so kind as to order me one half a dozen tombour worked Muslin hankerchiefs, 4 Ells Book Muslin, one pound of white threads, 12 Ells of light crimson caliminco with a peice of coarse cambrick and any light wollen stuff that will answer for winter gowns, half a dozen coulourd plumes and a small Box of flowers for Miss Nabby at her request to her pappa.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
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Her shoes white satin, embroidered in gold; the sleeves and body of the chemise, which is of the finest cambric, trimmed with rich lace; and the petticoat, which comes below the dress, shows two flounces of Valenciennes.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Until a fury in patterned cambric came storming through a gap in the hedge and walked into him.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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But their grandmother said there was too much dew on the grass for them to go down through the meadows that morning; so they borrowed a piece of black cambric from Sally, and spread it over the little box, which they called the coffin; and Frank darkened the windows, as he remembered they had done when his mother died.
Frank and Fanny
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Indeed, these "old folks" talked so much about what "used to be in their day" at the old White Sulphur, that I found it hard to convince myself that I had not been bodily present, seeing with my own eyes certain knee-buckled old gentlemen, with long queues, and certain Virginia and South Carolina belles attired in short-waisted, simple, white cambrics, who passed the summers there.
A girl's life in Virginia before the war,
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White linen-cambric frills, hemstitched by hand, and carefully crimped, were at our throats and wrists, and sunbonnets upon our heads, or rather, "slatted" hoods that could be folded at pleasure.
When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood
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Loudon stuck four stakes into a plot of grass to support a cambric handkerchief 6 inches above the surface and found that the temperature beneath it remained warmer than the temperature of the surrounding air.
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The broad expanse of shirt-front, with its delicate embroidery, not obtrusively splendid, but minutely elaborate rather, involving the largest expenditure of needlework to produce the smallest and vaguest effect -- a suspicion of richness, as it were, nothing more; the snowy cambric contrasts with the bronzed visage of the soldier, or blends harmoniously with the fair complexion of the fopling, who has never exposed his countenance to the rough winds of heaven; the expanse of linen proclaims the breadth of chest, and gives a factitious slimness to the waist.
The Lovels of Arden
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For an undergarment of this style, nainsook, batiste, long-cloth and cambric are the best materials.
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The dalmatic was a robe of cloth of gold, the stole was lined with crimson cloth and richly embroidered, the alb, or sleeveless tunic of fine cambric, was trimmed with beautiful lace.
The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
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She wears a gown of rich silk, opening in front to display a chemisette of the most delicate cambric, which is scarcely less delicate than her skin.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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He wore a plain, cambric shirt and tan breeches that tucked into shiny, black boots.
