The doorway framed an undersized, obese old man who wore a skullcap of black silesia. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
These are used over silk and silesia for backgrounds, and are exceedingly pretty, with pillow shams to match. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Silk, of course, is the ideal material; but its costliness puts it beyond ordinary means, and common silesia, such as is used in dress linings, is almost as good. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
In sewing buttons on a cloak or coat an extra strip of canvas or silesia over the canvas interlining should be placed the entire length of the buttoning for strength. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
She upset the tray of needles, forgot the silesia was to be. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
He followed this up by hurling first a blanket, then an armful of silesia, then a window support out of the window into the shop. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
At present many people think that if you add oxygen to silesia you will get oxide of silesia and can take spots out of clothes with it. From Wordnik.com. [Love Conquers All] Reference
She upset the tray of needles, forgot the silesia was to be 'twilled' till it was cut off, gave the wrong change, and covered herself with confusion by asking for lavender ribbon at the calico counter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
Another man in a peaked cap and a silesia coat, with a pencil behind his ear and a manifold book sticking out of his pocket shouted orders, consulted a long list, marked boxes and scribbled in a shipping book. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The reception committee had decorated, with red and white silesia streamers and rosettes, an ordinary side-bar buggy, to which a long rope had been attached, that the great man might be dragged by his fellow-citizens to the public square. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
Regardless of the daylight he had turned up the electric light on that side of the window to reflect a warm glow upon the heap, and behind, in pursuit of contrasted bleakness, he was now hanging long strips of grey silesia and chilly coloured linen dusterings. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
"Yes, I want some twilled silesia, a paper of number nine needles, and two yards of narrow lavender ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
23. silesia. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
One was the shipping clerk in his peaked cap and silesia coat, hurried, busy, commanding, full of responsibility; the other was Harvey, with his round, black skull cap, his great, gold-bowed spectacles, entering minutely, painstakingly, deliberately, his neat little figures in a neat, large book. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
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