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Woollen in sentence

31 examples of Woollen in a sentence

She did not stop, but went downstairs in her coarse woollen stockings, feeling her way, and lighted another candle in the parlour, to prepare the coffee.
Maheu, squatting down before his box in the shed, was taking off his sabots and his coarse woollen stockings.
He took up a newspaper; she knitted at a large woollen quilt.
She had simply put up her hair and flung on a white woollen dressing-gown.
"I still have two woollen dresses and some comforters," Cécile went on; "you will see how warm they will be, the poor dears!"
They took hold of the handles of the tub and emptied it into the gutter before the door, when Jeanlin came down in dry garments, breeches and a woollen blouse, too large for him, which were weary of fading on his brother's back.
In his turn, Zacharie came down, more carefully dressed, his body covered by a black woollen knitted jacket with blue stripes.
They keep you warm, woollen garments, but they don't put anything into your stomach, eh!"
Estelle had gone to sleep, and her face had slipped down into the woollen petticoat; the enormous breast was hanging free and naked like the udder of a great cow.
He repeated:"On we go to the other pits, and you come with us, you dirty devil!"Chaval had scarcely time to get his sabots from the shed and to throw his woollen jacket over his frozen shoulders.
He was, in fact, suffering from the coal glued to his skin by sweat, and his woollen garment was no protection.
His old woollen jacket in tatters no longer held together.
And then the men came up, two thousand madmen--trammers, pikemen, menders--a compact mass which rolled along like a single block in confused serried rank so that it was impossible to distinguish their faded trousers or ragged woollen jackets, all effaced in the same earthy uniformity.
His woollen jacket was cut by the thick blade, one of those blades fastened by a copper ferrule into a boxwood handle.
Many had their sabots in their hands; one could scarcely hear the soft sound of their coarse woollen stockings on the ground.
On the other side there were canvas booths, where cotton checks, blankets, and woollen stockings were sold, together with harness for horses, and packets of blue ribbon, whose ends fluttered in the wind.
All that night I lay upon the hard boards of the deck, as the passengers did, but we had afterwards the liberty of little cabins for such of us as had any bedding to lay in them, and room to stow any box or trunk for clothes and linen, if we had it (which might well be put in), for some of them had neither shirt nor shift or a rag of linen or woollen, but what was on their backs, or a farthing of money to help themselves; and yet I did not find but they fared well enough in the ship, especially the women, who got money from the seamen for washing their clothes, sufficient to purchase any common things that they wanted.
The rest of my cargo consisted in iron-work of all sorts, harness for horses, tools, clothes for servants, and woollen cloth, stuffs, serges, stockings, shoes, hats, and the like, such as servants wear; and whole pieces also to make up for servants, all by direction of the Quaker; and all this cargo arrived safe, and in good condition, with three woman-servants, lusty wenches, which my old governess had picked for me, suitable enough to the place, and to the work we had for them to do; one of which happened to come double, having been got with child by one of the seamen in the ship, as she owned afterwards, before the ship got so far as Gravesend; so she brought us a stout boy, about seven months after her landing.
She was taking to Rejkiavik coal, household goods, earthenware, woollen clothing, and a cargo of wheat.
Their costume consisted of a coarse jacket of black woollen cloth called in Scandinavian lands a 'vadmel,' a hat with a very broad brim, trousers with a narrow edge of red, and a bit of leather rolled round the foot for shoes.
Constantine Levin glanced into the room, which was beyond a partition, and saw that the speaker was a young man with an enormous head of hair, who wore a workman's coat, and that a young, pock-marked woman in a woollen dress without collar or cuffs [At that time better-class women always wore something white round their necks and wrists.]
These were my grandparents ; Grandfather Charpentier with his grey woollen burnous ; an old man, a retired gamekeeper wearing a rabbit fur bonnet which he called his képi. . .
They had been dressed in their best clothes : short knickers above the knees, which showed their thick woollen stockings and their heavy boots, a small blue velvet jacket, a cap of the same colour, and a white necktie.
Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.
I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!--when
In the atrium, which was closed above by a purple woollen cloth as protection from the night cold, it was as clear as in daylight.
She was dressed in a dark woollen mantle, like a daughter of the people, but never had Vinicius seen her more beautiful; and notwithstanding all the disorder which had risen in him, he was struck by the nobility of that wonderful patrician head in distinction to the dress, almost that of a slave.
There were lodgings on the ground, also; some provided with wooden doors, others separated from the yard by woollen screens only.
The other he was unable to recognize at once, for a mantle of coarse woollen stuff, called cilicium, concealed a part of his face.
They were joined by slaves serving in the city from of old, wretches who had nothing on their bodies save woollen girdles around their hips, dreadful figures from the alleys, who were hardly ever seen on the streets in the daytime, and whose existence in Rome it was difficult to suspect.