"linen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a New York address, he expressed his belief that, "Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen".
- Even those in fashion's vanguard have numerous choices, which vary from a natty jacket of deep purple linen to an exotic embroidered shirt or a cravat exuberantly patterned with swaying palms.
- The haughty Caesar of the East sat upon an ornate throne, shaded by a canopy of purple linen.
- I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches, as she does in purple and fine linen.
- "Proverbs 31 talks about the woman who made purple linens at home and sold them," Steve points out.
- The sarcophagus was not opened but was examined by means of a probe, which revealed pieces of incense, purple and blue linen, and small bone fragments.
- As luck would have it, Miss Shell, all wrapped up real pretty in purple linen, rested upon a pedestal of white stone at the far end of the hall.
- Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen!
- She greeted Priscilla and was introduced to her companions as calmly and composedly as if she had been arrayed in purple and fine linen.
- The girl, a dark and haughty beauty, acted as barmaid, and was notoriously given to extracting purple and fine linen from the particular specimen of mankind whom she held in subjection for the time being.
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