American cloth

Just as spinning and weaving American cloth became a mechanism of resistance, so did many acts of consumption.

Mighty Mary and her crew seemed cut from elemental American cloth: We were pioneers.

They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips.

A surge in imports from China in 1986 all but drove American cloth diaper producers from the delivery market.

Suit of American Cloth Inauguration Day in 1789 dawned overcast, but it cleared as the day wore on.

"Eighty percent of the textiles we produce in Jamaica are made from American cloth and thread," said Richard L. Bernal, Jamaica's Ambassador to Washington.

The new industries that had sprung up in Kingston's poorer areas making up clothes from pre-cut American cloth to export back to the US relied on cheap female labour.

Together we went round to the end of the table, and there, surely enough, found a letter pinned to the American cloth, and addressed to my companion in a bold but rather quaint handwriting.

Three cabins stood on either side, while from the bottom of the companion ladder, by which we had descended, to a long cushioned locker right aft under the wheel, ran a table covered with American cloth.

Racism raised its head in American characterizations; an American cloth for a card table in the 1940's depicted Japanese figures with buck teeth and slanted eyes, while Hitler and Mussolini, though mocked, were not depicted in ethnic terms.

The fabric chosen was a sort of American cloth, and by unremitting efforts the task was performed to time, and the balloon forwarded to Wolverhampton, its dimensions being 55 feet in diameter, 80 feet in height from the ground, with a capacity of 93,000 cubic feet.

An ink-stained table, littered with pens, papers, and almanacs, an American cloth sofa, three chairs of varying patterns, and a much-worn carpet, constituted all the furniture, save only a very large and obtrusive porcelain spittoon, and a gaudily framed and very somber picture which hung above the fireplace.

One nail had hit between two bricks and got home, and from this depended, sustained a little insecurely by frayed and knotted blind-cord, Parload's hanging bookshelves, planks painted over with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks.