Cambric
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Paris is not paved with
cambric
!""Monsieur, you act wrongly in endeavoring to mortify me," said d’Artagnan, in whom the natural quarrelsome spirit began to speak more loudly than his pacific resolutions.
More example sentences with word cambric
She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered
cambric
collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
Then she poured some vinegar on her
cambric
handkerchief; she moistened his temples with little dabs, and then blew upon them softly.
Thus his
cambric
shirt with plaited cuffs was blown out by the wind in the opening of his waistcoat of grey ticking, and his broad-striped trousers disclosed at the ankle nankeen boots with patent leather gaiters.
My comrade, as I called her, but rather she should have been called my teacher, with another of her scholars, was the first in the misfortune; for, happening to be upon the hunt for purchase, they made an attempt upon a linen-draper in Cheapside, but were snapped by a hawk's-eyed journeyman, and seized with two pieces of cambric, which were taken also upon them.
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