sprigged muslin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So a chair was placed in front of the green cupboard, and with precision in every movement the "sprigged" dishes were gotten down. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
While there, I posed the sprigged linen conundrum. From Wordnik.com. [Choosing the dress and materials] Reference
A good dress of sprigged muslin and a fringed shawl. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Besides, Marcia must give her mind to sprigged chintz. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Pyetushkov on the blue sprigged plate a new white roll. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
The chair cushions were blue, and the china was blue sprigged. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
Ah yes! it was too late now for many things besides the sprigged muslin. From Wordnik.com. [In Dark New England Days] Reference
The silk now is sprigged with roses, but somehow one no longer sees so clearly. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
But her blue sprigged muslin gown looked well enough and the cap quite becoming. From Wordnik.com. [The Outrageous Dowager]
His stand-up collar curled over at the corners, and his necktie was lilac-sprigged. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Her hands trembled as she put out the sprigged china that was kept in the corner cupboard. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
She wore dresses, either white sprigged with black or black with very faint designs in them. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harriette Arnow, April, 1976. Interview G-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Barth was African-American with short, black hair sprigged with white and smooth, dark skin. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Season]
Betsy Davy mourned young Walker with all her heart in spite of dressing in sprigged paduasoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
It was a woman clad in a sprigged silk gown, the image of my lady of the dining-room portrait. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
By these windows a table set for supper, with a white linen cloth and delicately sprigged china. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Spoons and so on are unmistakable -- but one sprigged saucer is very like other saucers sprigged the same. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
This particular Lilac Sunday she was wearing the sprigged dimity that Seth bought her over in Spring Road at. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
She ran her hand down the dress she was wear ing, the fine sprigged muslin that smelled of lavender sachets. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Hipcroft soon discerned the slim little figure his eye was in search of, in the sprigged lilac, as described. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiddler of the Reels] Reference
The lower end is still being sprigged and should soon catch up to the top of the bed which was planted first. From Wordnik.com. [Muhly Grass-See You In September* « Fairegarden] Reference
After looking at several options, we have settled upon a simple cream sprigged muslin gown with a spencer jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Milk and Honey ARC giveaway on Library Thing] Reference
After much discussion with V.B., my modiste, we decided that I would order this dress in a cream sprigged muslin. From Wordnik.com. [Choosing the dress and materials] Reference
She wore a lavender frock of dotted swiss sprigged with pink flowers, silk stockings, and a pair of dainty kid slippers. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
Indeed, she looked remarkably vibrant in a fashionable sprigged muslin dress with her hair softly curling about her face. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
She was wearing a light sprigged muslin dress — new, he thought, and made to enhance her figure rather than disguise it. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
But behold one morning his servant, Onisim, handed him, on a blue-sprigged plate, instead of a roll, three dark red rusks. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperate Character] Reference
He also painted a portrait of Kitty in a low dress sprigged with flowers, with a sash, and ribbons at the back of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Her braided red waistcoat and sprigged blue dirndl skirt were just that bit too gaudy, her cleavage too precipitous by far. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
She held out the old-fashioned pink-sprigged muslin, yellowed with age, yet possessing the charm of old, well-preserved garments. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
She looked down at the light sprigged muslin with its wide blue sash and thought again that it was quite inappropriate for February. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
My attic, once the retreat of the youngest of Aunty's daughters, had a worn pink carpet and cream wallpaper sprigged with pink roses. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
There was sure to be a crab or lobster ready, and a dish of prawns sprigged with parsley; if the sea were beginning to get cool again. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
How fine it was, a sprigged muslin of rich green and gold, with leg-of-mutton sleeves puffed at the shoulder and tapered down the arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
The morning room doors opened; Portia, in a gown of blue muslin sprigged with deeper blue, stepped through, shutting the doors behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
On the chair lay the lilac-sprigged muslin dress of her grandmother's, which Winsome had meant to put on next morning to the kirk. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
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