Sundays - a real satin - not a satinet or any of the shams. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
(Mills) Canal, which conveyed water from the Pawtucket Canal to his satinet-mills, thus affording additional power. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884] Reference
At the age of nineteen, with a freedom suit of satinet, and barely money enough to bring him home, he returned to Cleveland. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Unable to recoup his business losses in Center Falls and losing even the satinet factory, Susan's father had looked about in Virginia and. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
On a cold blustery March day in 1839, when she was nineteen, Susan moved with her family two miles down the Battenkill to the little settlement of Hardscrabble, later called Center Falls, where her father owned a satinet factory and grist mill, built in more prosperous times. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Mother was hard at work, making me a new jacket of gray satinet, lined with black chintz. From Wordnik.com. [John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself] Reference
"Why?" asked Mrs. Allen, looking up from the brown patch she was engaged in sewing on the elbow of the deacon's black satinet coat. From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference
A little stuff if you 'd ha' cut that left arm more catercornered, — 't would ha 'been full long, I guess, and there a'n't no nap, o' no account, on satinet. From Wordnik.com. [John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself] Reference
1 pair blue satinet pants. From Wordnik.com. [Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat] Reference
To one lie, first class, extra quality and size; recommended milled satinet as broadcloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
Why, I was a boy once, myself, incredible as that may seem, and a wilder dog never wore satinet and a felt hat, or got flogged for misdemeanors that he did n't do, than myself; but here I am, — no matter how old, though confessing to thirty-seven years, — and, as people say, not one of the worst men in town, either.”. From Wordnik.com. [Knitting-work] Reference
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