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Example sentences for "white silk"

  • During a very dressy half mourning, however, black lace may be worn on white silk; but this is questionable.

  • Another simple dress was made of white silk, trimmed with old Venetian point, the train of striped ivory point and white satin depending … la Watteau from the shoulders, and fastened at the point of the waist.

  • White silk, embroidered with black jet, is used in the second stage of court mourning, with black gloves.

  • At her bridal Catharine wore upon her head a coif of white silk, with a scarf bordered with gold and pearls and precious stones, five inches and a half broad, which veiled the greater part of her visage and her person.

  • That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness.

  • Here beneath a canopy of white silk, on pillows of white silk, and all clothed in white silk, lay the form that had so long dwelt in his heart.

  • The material was black satin brocade, with a fringe of white silk, and the letters IHS in white damask.

  • The sleeves of the coat of Charles the Second were of white silk, very large, opening towards the wrist, and embroidered with blue silk and jet, the rest of his costume being embroidered in white and blue silk.

  • Another Method to take Spots or Stains out of White Silk or Crimson Velvet.

  • The eight bridesmaids wore dresses of white corded silk, alike in every particular, with overdresses of white illusion, sashes of white silk arranged in a succession of loops from the waist downward, forming graceful drapery.

  • Every alderman was attended by a body-guard, in white silk, with gilded halberds.

  • He was nude to the waist, with a pair of white calico drawers, white silk stockings, and running shoes.

  • The children knelt around the old man and he held high up in his hands that wonderful thing with the covering of white silk.

  • They could not see what it was clearly, for it had a covering of white silk, and the red glow shone through this and filled the room.

  • So Bors turned away and took his horse and rode for a long way, and then he saw the water before him and a ship, all covered with canopies of white silk, lying beside the shore.

  • It was only a little way that they rode this time and then they came to the sea-side and saw a ship, all covered with canopies of white silk.

  • Materials--Pink silk or satin, a piece of white silk braid, white silk fringe, and white satin ribbon.

  • It consisted, in fact, of a belt of white silk, lined with red, and embroidered on the upper part with designs representing mandarin ducks, disporting themselves among some lotus.

  • Bring likewise those ink pictures and white silk curtains, and change these curtains.

  • She was dressed in a deep red jacket, a white silk petticoat.

  • Concealing the structure is a voluminous veil of white silk or gauze, striped or strewn with flowers, and invariably bordered with gold.

  • It was a white silk, with an immense train, of course, and without overskirt--simply caught up in a great puff behind.

  • Nothing but these fringes (which gleamed and waved with every motion) relieved it--not even a bit of black velvet anywhere, for the lace round the neck was drawn through with a white silk thread.

  • She was dressed in white silk, cut square neck and trimmed with a lot of little box-plaited ruffles round the bottom.

  • Two young girls, very beautifully dressed, brought in the bride, a very pleasing-looking creature dressed entirely in white silk, with a veil of white silk covering her from head to foot.

  • Near the end of the room the coffin, under a canopy of white silk, upon which there was a very beautiful arrangement of artificial white lotuses, rested upon trestles, the face of the corpse being turned towards the north.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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