The hose were a fine tissue-paper imitation of silk stockings!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

He had put the tissue-paper with the ring into his waistcoat pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Old Lady]

Next he came to something shrouded in fold after fold of tissue-paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference

If you cannot wrap your tissue-paper mind around that point, Zeus helpyou.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism] Reference

He took from it something wrapped in tissue-paper which he handed to Maigret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Old Lady]

"The Happy-Go-Luckys are partial to tissue-paper," Mr. Dawson said, smilingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy-Alone] Reference

Tearing away the tissue-paper, she gazed with delight at the coveted stockings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference

The book ingeniously contains miniature tissue-paper patterns for each project.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Betty reached in and lifted the white tissue-paper package from its hiding place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference

Only the big man didn't look the type for crimping-shears and tissue-paper cut-outs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

Red-head dived gracefully into the box and drew forth a note from the tissue-paper billows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919] Reference

"I'd like to ask Hermione to help in our tissue-paper work, but we can't ask her without Vera.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy-Alone] Reference

She knelt down and moved the white tissue-paper aside, and there it was, nestled safe and sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courting Trouble]

Maestro found himself before a little pink-and-blue tissue-paper box, frilled with paper rosettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

The object that called forth this remark was a small morocco box, loosely wrapped in tissue-paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

It was as if the creature had taken hold of the ship's walls and torn them apart like tissue-paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's There?] Reference

Then each lemon is wiped dry and clean, wrapped separately in tissue-paper, and packed for shipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

This was removed, together with folds of tissue-paper underneath; and a brilliant silver teapot appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Greenwood Tree] Reference

Anne took a tissue-paper parcel from the shelf, and opening it, showed a blue cashmere smock with a ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women of the Country] Reference

And as for "society," it rustled flimsily, like tissue-paper; bright, in a way, but still thin and crackling.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

It was made of handsome white tissue-paper roses, with green tissue-paper leaves, and had two long streamers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference

MOTHER'S DAY CRAFTS, arts specialist Aaron Springer helps kids make tissue-paper cards and flowers. 2-4 p.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince George's County community calendar, May 6 to 13, 2010] Reference

Tear tissue-paper into bits, one-eighth of an inch square, and this piece of electrified paper will draw them.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

Little slips of torn tissue-paper littered the floor, and on a chair by her side were several empty cardboard boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference

Carefully she did it up, placing tissue-paper above and beneath the cardboard, and laying it tenderly in a white box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference

He took off his party clothes, folded up and wrapped in tissue-paper his embroidered silk waistcoat, and put it away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

She untied the string, lifted the sheets of tissue-paper, and displayed what even Nan had to admit was a beautiful hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

He hovered about, near by, whilst I opened the bit of tissue-paper containing the pattern and murmured my needs to Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference

He was so thin that his joints inside his ancient, tissue-paper uniform seemed far larger than the shafts of his limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [And all the Stars a Stage]

He eyed her indifferently while she undid the tissue-paper wrappings of her little parcel and displayed the hypodermic needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Then, with a pair of scissors, cut out of a piece of tissue-paper a number of figures, such as men, women, clowns, frogs, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference

He must be asleep, for he saw himself bringing out of his pocket a twist of tissue-paper containing two almost invisible threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]

At last among all the jingling cabs came one in which sat a stout red-faced man holding a flower wrapped in tissue-paper — the Colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years] Reference

Her tissue-paper face had been crumpled by karma, and his heart ached with the burden of her newest loss, one in a string of bitter beads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

Should the light be too strong it can easily be modified by spreading a sheet of thin, white tissue-paper between the glass and the slides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference

When he buries a countryman he throws from the hearse into the air handfuls of brown tissue-paper slips, punctured with Chinese characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference

The cost is going up because of oil prices and the tissue-paper dollar, combined with the world's most mechanized, most oil-dependent army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: White House To Request Nearly $200 Billion For Iraq And Afghanistan] Reference