They were looking for some fustian such as velveteen to make the intricate costumes. From LearnThat.org.
Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
Quarry Bank had also begun weaving, and like many of the mills near here produced a fabric called fustian, also known as. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Why should he deny himself his velvet? it is but a kind of fustian which costs him eighteenpence a yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Of fustian men and women gross, of dry and dusty lock. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Chaucer's knight in the fourteenth century wore fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
The lithe young man in fustian, whom I had seen talking with. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Silas] Reference
They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
They recite in a timid and indistinct tone the prescribed fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870] Reference
He wrote and read, and smoked and wrote, rising early, and talking fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
He used the wad of fustian to mop up the spilled water as well as he could. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
How different from their easy, natural appearance in their every-day fustian!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
No one objected, so each boy filled the fustian bag he carried full of stones. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
'What! drunk? and talk fustian and speak parrot, and discourse with one's shadow?'. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Then again, it might be the 18th or 19th-or for that matter, 21st-century fustian. From Wordnik.com. [A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?] Reference
The great virtue of Mr. Ramakrishna's writing is the absence of pretence and fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ind And Other Poems] Reference
FEARGUS O'CONNOR always attends public meetings, dressed in a complete suit of fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
Using more Spanish dialogue for the Sharks accomplishes too little with too much fustian. From Wordnik.com. [That Finishing Touch: James Wolcott] Reference
The fustian coat, with a tongue in every button-hole, discourses on its own inwoven infamy. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841] Reference
A lot of Bruce's routines today are like the punny gags in Shakespeare — fustian hairballs. From Wordnik.com. [Mort the Knife] Reference
He saw a long, fustian-clad arm follow the scarred thumb, and a hand grope all over the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
It seems as if a certain quantity of fustian must be blown off before you reach the good material. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Burglars are not all escaped convicts, blear eyed and hideous; nor do they all go about in fustian. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
These are all prohibited; and are replaced by fustian declamations, tending to promote anarchy and discord. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
This is not all fustian for the flattery of women; it is the deliberate conviction of our best and wisest minds. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
He wore corduroy trousers fastened round the waist by a narrow strap, and a blue shirt, with an unbuttoned jacket of fustian. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
So he used his small dagger to cut out the fustian lining of his black livery jerkin and wrapped that around his mouth and nose. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
But time would fail me to tell you of the myriad golden spangles so thickly stitched into the hurrying web of those fustian hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Let that be as it may, I deserved a good beating that night, after making such a fool of myself, and grinding good fustian to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock – marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
Old men with grey hairs, young men with mustaches -- some in cloth, others in fustian, indicating that men of different rank can meet here. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference
And this quaint old inn is frequented by fustian-dressed mill-hands from the neighbouring worsted factories, which strew the high road from. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
He began to make verses about her, of course -- ghastly, fustian stuff, at the recollection of which the Solitary shuddered, and then laughed. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Now and then women passed, but they, also, were of the night, gaudily bedecked in tinsel and glittering finery that would have been fustian by day to the least discriminating eye. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
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