cambric

He blew his nose on a ragged square of cambric.

The warmth of his body had pressed deep creases in the white cambric.

He drew a scrap of cambric from his pocket and handed it to her.

The resulting triangular structure appears to have been covered with cambric.

"He was such a dear man," she said, dabbing at her eyes with a square of cambric.

It was a small square of cambric, very dainty.

Mrs. Hubbard looked at the little scrap of cambric he held out to her.

He produced the little square of fine cambric.

Sheets were of linen and cambric, edged with lace.

Then the curls from the wig brushed her face, as did the cambric of his stock, and she wanted to withdraw.

The tiny wisp of cambric came out again unobtrusively.

This winding-sheet was nothing more than a beautiful piece of cambric, which the young girl had bought a fortnight before.

Mr. Crocker reluctantly drew the cambric from his face.

I found two things - a scrap of starched cambric and an empty goose quill.

The soft white cambric of his nightshirt stuck to his damp skin.

Cambric is a lightweight cotton cloth used as fabric for lace and needlework.

Occasionally both underside of lid and inside of case were lined with plain cambric.

Lancashire printers were already stamping Kitty's designs onto his fine cambric.

I thought of the summer-house and the scrap of cambric. '

Inside, a shriveled woman is wrapped head to foot in white cambric, with only the pinched oval of her face showing.

And while cambric for the fashioning of chemises was one thing, costly brown satin from China must surely be another?

Come, I would your cambric were sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity.

Her gown was cut from the patterned cambric she'd named Manx Heather.

Very fine cambric they were too, her aunt certainly wasn't stinting her in the matter of wardrobe.

Much cambric had he left.