The gloves were knitted with lisle yarn and were very durable. From LearnThat.org.
The "Diana" is a silk stocking with lisle top and soles. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
It is of heavy lisle, full fashioned and fast color -- black or tan. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
Could feel the cool fabric gliding between her legs, skimming over her lisle stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
Below it was a dainty petticoat and at the bottom of the drawer were white oxfords and fine, lisle stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
After the first month, if the weather is exceedingly warm, this woolen shirt may be displaced by a thin silk or lisle shirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
For golf club evening functions, black silk or lisle thread stockings and pumps and black knickers would be appropriate dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
Denver's skin dissolved under that gaze and became soft and bright like the lisle dress that had its arm around her mother's waist. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved]
PRIORITIES THREE SHIRTS, AN EXTRA PAIR of decent breeches, two pair of stockings, one lisle, one silk-wait, where were the silk ones?. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
She kicks off her lisle blue shoes, and begins dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
People as well as lisle thread were a specialty of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Indiscreet Letter] Reference
Edinburgh, we boarded the train for London at Car-lisle. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others] Reference
I wore a pair of glove-fitting low shoes and lisle-thread socks. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
"The buttonholes will be hand-embroidered with thread of Scotland lisle". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Jimenez p2 1 1 0B. Nelson ph 0 0 0 0 B.lisle p0 0 0 0League p 0 0 0 0 Redding p2 0 2. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Her gray lisle-thread gloves were new, so was her tissue veil and her straw hand-bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Opened Shutters] Reference
Lord Car - lisle has cultivated letters successfully, and the, earls of Surrey, and of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St ...] Reference
I would advise anyone going into the mines not to wear lisle-thread socks and low shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
Thin black lisle stockings showed a modestly arched and rather small foot in a black pump. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference
Mrs. Sieppe had on lisle-thread mits, and carried two bananas and an orange in a net reticule. From Wordnik.com. [McTeague] Reference
As he took her proffered hand, he raised the lisle-thread fingers to his lips with old-fashioned gallantry. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
Five quite expensive pairs of silk and lisle socks Milt purchased -- all that the general merchant at Jeppe had in stock. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
He felt her soft young fingers even through the lisle-thread gloves that encased them, and the warm moisture of her lips upon his skin. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
So many lisle hose are being made, there’s a shortage of thread. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
"Has this evening meant so lisle to you?". From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Belgium); dungaree (Dungri section of Bombay, India); lisle. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
Mostly lisle -- for very hot weather. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pepper Burns] Reference
Ain't lisle thread good enough for yer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference
York, Esq.M. P, for Car - lisle. From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
They were lisle. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
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