They brushed across cool linens and she whimpered.

She dipped a cloth in water from the basin on the table, squeezed out the excess, and rested the cool, damp linen over his brow.

At the end of it is a Paris suburb, a bed with cool white linen and nuns fussing around me.

Then she ghacedat the figure lying is the bed beneath cool white linens.

Tellson's had whitewashed the Cupid, but he was still to be seen on the ceiling, in the coolest linen, aiming (as he very often does) at money from morning to night.

I was a good swimmer, and in my inflamed condition the contact of the water with my skin soothed me like cool linen.

I turned away against the clean cool linen of the pillow.

Her skin was fever-hot compared to the crisp, cool linens he'd had the foresight to put on the bed that morning.

I wiped his face once more and eased him back on his pillow, where he turned a cheek to the cool linen and fell asleep again at once.

With its towering pharaohs, its cool linen and its expressive typography, ancient Egypt has a special, favored place in the modern Western imagination.