Caris had to be at the end of his rope physically, she thought, studying his drawn young face in the watered-silk dappling of the willow's green shade, to conquer his nervousness about sleeping in the open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

And John became solely the fond parent, gathering his children to him, taking the youngest on his knee and holding her to his watered-silk waistcoat, letting them play with the long gold chain from which depended his PINCE-NEZ, count his studs with their little fingers, disarrange the ends of his tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

The sea is a great sheet of watered-silk, as blue as my blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Paramount] Reference

And he intercepted the advance of this bale of black watered-silk and lace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

In the drawing-room sat Irene amid the cold whiteness of sculpture, which adorned the walls, and the reflection on polished furniture of blue watered-silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference

A white watered-silk bonnet closely framed features of perfect regularity, the oval being completed by the satin ribbon tie that fastened it under her dimpled chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Home] Reference

On taking her wraps off in the house I saw she wore a watered-silk skirt, laid in side plaits in the front with a full straight black drapery, that was very becoming to her short, plump figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference

If one has screens in the apple cellar, one is likely to find small moths on them in the spring, larger than a clothes moth, about three-fourths inch in spread of the soft gray watered-silk wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1] Reference

They passed through a small, brightly lighted drawing-room and halted in the following chamber, where the walls were adorned with white garlands and the curtains and upholstering were of blue watered-silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts] Reference

Chancing to be waiting in his fellow-clerk's room, he had looked at his books, and, always attracted by poetry as the rough fellow was, had lighted on a crimson watered-silk volume, in the first page of which he had, to his horror, found the name of Charlotte Arnold borne aloft by the two doves, and in the blank leaves several extremely flowery poems in her own handwriting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

A silver cigarette-case with a watered-silk lining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service] Reference

A duchess, with watered-silk dresses and money to grow food, rouge and powders in glass pots, silver scissors, a lorgnette, voile and tulle instead of flax, cerulean blue instead of indigo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus Hottentot and the Irony of Science] Reference

There were curiosities enough to have taken the young visitor hours more to see, only while they were in the midst of them Aunt Ruth came in smiling, and in a state of compromise -- that is to say, there had been no time to change her dress, but she had mounted her best cap and put on her black watered-silk apron, two pieces of confectionery that it would take half a chapter to properly describe, so they may go with the simple announcement that they were wonders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menhardoc] Reference