Since we cannot wash Towels, we have lined his Cot with sailcloth which is now Black with Blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
They looked like men sewed into white sailcloth sacks. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
And now he's probably sewing up rips in sailcloth all day. From Wordnik.com. [Villains by Necessity]
Brown-green sailcloth was matched to design specifications. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
I had a piece of heavy sailcloth sewn into the lining instead. From Wordnik.com. [Will]
I crowded the woman down in the canoe, and covered her with sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Finally he takes rags, strips of sailcloth lying about and wraps my feet. From Wordnik.com. ['A Mercy'] Reference
She touched the bow she'd brought out with her in a sailcloth duffel bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
The picture was executed on a piece of sailcloth, in a boathouse at Cremyll. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
But the thing kept going, revealing itself to be a balloon made of sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
There were curtains of sailcloth put over the windows to obscure the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Transformed by hope, Jaric snatched rope and spare sailcloth from Taen's hands. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
She handed it to Kerian and by its light folded stiff lengths of oiled sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Lioness]
Above it all, the crazy gnome circled in the air on the wings of a sailcloth kite. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
Her gnarled fingers plunged a needle in and out of a large piece of thick sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Storyteller Han Sook « A Fly in Amber] Reference
He was sewn up in sailcloth and to make him heavier they put with him two iron weights. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
Here bale by bale we brought the cargo, piling it under trees and covering it with sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
They brought him ashore, covered with a huddle of dirty sailcloth, in the bottom of the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
She wore a loose, light-blue dress and red sailcloth espadrilles, and her smile was pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [html]
In moments, sailcloth caught the stiff winds, unfurled, and snapped to the ends of their ties. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
On just such a bitter day, a man clad in tattered sailcloth picked his way up the frozen slope. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
The principal articles of manufacture have long been sailcloth, cordage, linen and fishing-nets. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It was strange that a man should be sewn up in sailcloth and should soon be flying into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch, and other stories] Reference
Here I lifted the canoe, turned it bottom side up in the meadow, and covered it with a sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The very air seemed to turn solid, tearing at sailcloth and hemp, wooden hull and metal fittings. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
Green-brown pika-pina sailcloth went everywhere, until theSlanderscree resembled a moving island. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Since his return, his clothing of ill-sewn sailcloth had been discarded for a tunic of woven wool. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
She eyed disparagingly his towelling shirt of sailcloth red and his very brief, bright-blue shorts. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
The horse is a wooden circle, with a dress of blackened sailcloth, a horse's head, and a prominent tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
He lay in a chrysalis of red blanket, his head tipped back on a bundle of sailcloth, his face to the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
He wrapped the gray sailcloth around it several times, dropped it on the floor, and crushed it with his foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference
They were of the finest, No. 8, sailcloth to be found in the ship and had only hung there for the last two days. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
He was followed by a sailor, who quickly attached the lowered sailcloth bridge to the rails of the conning tower. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
The plane was small, red and white, and had double wings, covered with what, to Grijpstra, appeared to be sailcloth. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Corpse at Twilight]
He also proposed that they should be allowed to export Irish sailcloth, cotton-yarn, and cordage to England, free of duty. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
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