“Something cottony in that cloth of yours,” she said. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
It is a soft, white, cottony mass with black spore cases. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
I tried to speak, but my lips and tongue were cottony dry. From Wordnik.com. [Leave a Message for Willie]
In case of mealybug, eggs are laid in white, cottony masses. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The sun shone brightly from a sky dotted with cottony clouds. From Wordnik.com. [So Hard To Forget]
Bug may be known by its mealy, floury, or cottony appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
In his cottony vision, people moved throughout the restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Garden of Beasts]
"I'm in hospital, " she croaked, her throat dry and mouth cottony. From Wordnik.com. [Mirage]
Burping automatic fire followed, shattering the cottony stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
FRUIT: Two-valved, conical, dehiscing to release cottony winged seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
There's a strange cottony taste in my mouth and I'm very, very thirsty. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Drew was thirsty, so thirsty his tongue was a cottony mass in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
Beck lay on his back, staring at cottony cumulus with cold, unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
His mouth felt cottony, so dry that he was not sure he could answer audibly. From Wordnik.com. [Night of masks]
They contain fleshy green seeds (3 cm long) in a sweet, white, cottony pulp. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
It breaks free with a silence, a cottony click that I take as a sigh of relief. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Gift] Reference
Vera remembered the cottony fabric and reached down to pull it up to her chest. From Wordnik.com. [Jackson's Woman]
Many are green while some are red or black or covered with a cottony secretion. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
The fabric's got to feel stretchy and cottony; the tapes have to be round and soft. From Wordnik.com. [GOING HOME WITH THE CUSTOMERS] Reference
Sev-eral hours later Tyl paused and extracted a handful of small round cottony pads. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage To The City Of The Dead]
It took another minute to re aliT the cottony taste was just that -- a piece of cloth. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Called Jesse]
He'd been coughing continuously, and now he was spitting up wads of cottony pink fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Delta Search]
The man in the lead ship ran fingers through his cottony hair like a man sorely puzzled. From Wordnik.com. [World of Ptavvs]
The patterns emerged like distant signal lamps seen through an all-consuming cottony fog. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
Fungi with the outside covering bowl-shaped Crucibulum, of one cottony layer, the Crucible. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
They appear late in March, being green above, with an undersurface which is white, and cottony. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
This made the pants texture change from a nice cottony-polyester texture to a rough, grainy one. From Wordnik.com. [truepyrite Diary Entry] Reference
He sprang from the bed and danced a tarantella, pranced in his cottony nightgown like a drunken Yaqui. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
She noticed, ill the tussocky places of the grass, cottony young cowslips standing up still bleared in their down. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
One, an albino Boy with pink eyes and cottony golden hair, handed Corbell twenty pounds of jerked meat wrapped in cloth. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
Through the moving couples they hurried out a side-door to a world that was covered thick with soft, cottony, silent snow. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
Every now and then the cottony light would creep upward a few millimetres, only to sink back and disappear into the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
She shared her find with me - a cottony spider web covered the leaf's surface - and we bent together to examine her discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Thelma Adams: Motherhood Tales: My Little Runaway] Reference
She heard nothing and saw nothing, yet her heart was beating with the intensity of a snare drum and her mouth was dry and cottony. From Wordnik.com. [Undercover Vows]
A cottony mouldiness extended round its head; and in the corners of its eyelids might be seen little red specks which appeared to move. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
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