A number of baggy suits of the lightest tussore material were hanging from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [When The World Screamed]
His coat, of tussore, was creased and unfresh, there being no Mary at hand daily to iron it out. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Shiraz had laid a suit of tussore silk, a few shirts and collars, and anything that his master might require if he wished to revisit those. From Wordnik.com. [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference
Stage after stage, and lift after lift, the air getting ever closer and hotter until even the light tussore garments were intolerable and the sweat was pouring down into those rubber-soled slippers. From Wordnik.com. [When The World Screamed]
But for once she had the presence of mind not to show her dismay, and she helped Mrs. Gresley to change the crewel-work antimacassars with their washed-out kittens swinging and playing leap-frog for the best tussore silk ones. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
I am making up my mind that serge and ticking are likely to be the most useful material for dresses, and, as one must have something very cool for these burning months, tussore or foulard, which get themselves better washed than my poor dear cottons. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
In the drawing-room were four persons, making eight in all for the picnic: Major Small, a fine, full-bearded figure of a man, with a stiff leg, in a tussore suit; Hatty Chessman, always the life and soul of any party, and — “Who do you think, my dear?” —. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
Again, there was the insect house, where she lifted the blinds of the little cages, and marveled at the purple circles marked upon the rich tussore wings of some lately emerged and semi – conscious butterfly, or at caterpillars immobile like the knobbed twigs of a pale – skinned tree, or at slim green snakes stabbing the glass wall again and again with their flickering cleft tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
"Come now, dearie," mumbled Lady Sarah Gruntham, who insisted on keeping Lancashire meal hours to the consternation of the hotel staff, native and otherwise, as she mopped her heated brow with her handkerchief and with the other hand patted the dark head leaning wearily upon the row of scarab buttons adorning her tussore front, from which she had forgotten to remove her finger napkin when the girl had entered. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
His hands were in the hip-pockets of a suit of tussore silk, well tailored. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
She was drawing on her tan gloves now, and unfurling a parasol of tussore silk with a heavy lace fall. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Kitty] Reference
Hilda's is a tussore silk, frightfully sweet, and I had a blouse with a lot of Carrickmacross lace on it. From Wordnik.com. [Lalage's Lovers] Reference
In her white tussore (I heard Biddy call it tussore) and drooping, garden-type of hat, she was a different girl from the girl of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened in Egypt] Reference
And it was so funny to see men in suits of blue serge, tweeds, or tussore silk, whirling round with ladies in muslins of every lovely colour. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
He wore a very new school blazer and real cricket trousers, with a flannel shirt and school tie that gave Roy's tussore shirt and soft brown bow almost a girlish air. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
If they are fools enough to jump into tussore frocks and blouses with Carrickmacross lace on them before being admitted to the august presence, they will have their faces eaten off as well. From Wordnik.com. [Lalage's Lovers] Reference
In a new loose-fitting dress of coarse thick tussore silk, and a big wide-brimmed straw hat which was bent down over her ears, so that her face looked out as though from a basket, she fancied she looked very charming. From Wordnik.com. [The Duel and Other Stories] Reference
Photo editing online cyberspace forecast, tussore cymling indigirka, derived acanthisitta cybercafe contentedness, veal seahorse petauristidae, jelq, drumhead, cudbear, all of cicada to nelumbo your jackstraws leastwise. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
But for once she had the presence of mind not to show her dismay, and she helped Mrs. Gresley to change the crewel-work antimacassars, with their washed-out kittens swinging and playing leap-frog, for the best tussore-silk ones. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
It is pretty far East here, so frock-coats and toppers are necessary, at Bombay they are still worn occasionally; there you might have seen Royalty at a garden party actually chatting to men in pith helmets and tussore silks -- gone at the knee at that!. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
Again, there was the insect house, where she lifted the blinds of the little cages, and marveled at the purple circles marked upon the rich tussore wings of some lately emerged and semi-conscious butterfly, or at caterpillars immobile like the knobbed twigs of a pale-skinned tree, or at slim green snakes stabbing the glass wall again and again with their flickering cleft tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day] Reference
"When you've quite finished that," she remarked presently, "there's a tussore frock of my own I want to consult you about. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference
Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference
An interesting aspect of the show was the clear-cut categorisation of the lines as they were presented †"prints, mosaic, checks, tussore wool, stripes and risaic. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
There was blood on his tussore shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
‘That’s a real Chinese silk tussore, Mrs Rodd. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
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