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reinforced by the sound made by his linen suit trousers as they rubbed over his rough,
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linen and white cotton
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I held the tee-shirts up to my face and even through the sack-cloth I could smell fresh linen
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with a square of the finest linen in my top pocket
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All the shelves, table tops and chair backs were protected with embroidered white linen and above us, a wooden beamed ceiling
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The shop was in a yard overlooking the bay and covering its low walls hung every type of linen designed for every household need
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” Not on the same night, of course”, she added just to be sure that she could manage the linen
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Through blurry vision, I see a clean linen handkerchief appear below pew level
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I suppose decent bed linen is always acceptable
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‘As her boss, I was given the enjoyable task of presenting her with the cheque we’d collected for her – Sally, they raised nearly £200! Claire, the girl who works in the office with Anna, had elicited the information by some means or other that Anna wanted money to buy linen and crockery when they get to Italy so in the end we’d decided to just give her the cash
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added just to be sure that she could manage the linen
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19"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury
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19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared
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White linen hand towels hung within ready grasp and a dish with hand-cut marbled soap sat also in close reach
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A large claw foot tub with shining steel shower head, faucet and knobbed valve, all curtained in white linen greeted her immediate gaze
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There, hanging in the compartment, was something they had not made themselves: a new charcoal black sack suit and vest and two linen shirts from the village haberdashery
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The tables were dressed in linen and set with white china place settings, accented with silverware bearing the engraved initials of the Union Pacific Railway on each piece
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It was unoccupied, so he set himself to brushing his dinner suit, polishing his boot tops, and airing his best linen shirt
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a thick linen napkin with club soda to the spot
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After all, he has given her life and a little luxury, a real bed and fresh linen
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Her pink linen business suit, but she doubted Beth would choose it, Beth preferred Blue
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He was referring to her pink linen suit, perhaps that was what they were talking about, it had obviously raised a few brows, and the last time she wore it
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6One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of
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7The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted
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In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc
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But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth
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That the price of linen and woollen cloth is liable neither to such frequent, nor to such great variations, as the price of corn, every man's experience will inform him
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The great improvements in the coarser manufactories of both linen and woollen cloth furnish the labourers with cheaper and better clothing; and those in the manufactories of the coarser metals, with cheaper and better instruments of trade, as well as with many agreeable and convenient pieces of household furniture
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A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity, Mr Messance, receiver of the taillies in the election of St Etienne, endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years, by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in three different manufactures; one of coarse woollens, carried on at Elbeuf; one of linen, and another of silk, both which extend through the whole generality of Rouen
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The manufacture of linen in Scotland, and that of coarse woollens in the West Riding of Yorkshire, are growing manufactures, of which the produce is generally, though with some variations, increasing both in quantity and value
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common sorts of manufactures, such as those of plain linen and woollen cloth, computed at an
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will annually work up very nearly the same quantity of linen and woollen cloth
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The spinning of linen yarn is carried on in Scotland nearly in the same way as the knitting of
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The weavers of linen and hempen cloth,
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On the one bed was a set of linen
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She’d tie long linen threads to their feet, then he could play with them
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Her peplos was made of the finest linen
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diaphanous, intended to be worn over a linen sheath
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however, a smal piece of linen around the hip
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as those used in the army, but only a linen over
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The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory
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He became even louder as Hesper swaddled him in a clean linen sheet
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The linen manufacture has not yet obtained it, but is making great strides towards it
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When the two men from the Royal Guard left with their grisly find wrapped in linen, Zarko decided not to return to the palace to press Helez for an answer
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The silk, perhaps, is the manufacture which would suffer the most by this freedom of trade, and after it the linen, though the latter much less than the former
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Then instead of selling the flax, they could earn much more by producing linen
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If the wines of France are better and cheaper than those of Portugal, or its linens than those of Germany, it would be more advantageous for Great Britain to purchase both the wine and the foreign linen which it had occasion for of France, than of Portugal and Germany
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And Ductor, who owns the linen mill
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Caphates, the foreman at Ductor’s linen mill
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They approached the marble slab on which the body had been laid out and covered with a white linen sheet so that only the face was visible
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Miklos, fearless and reliable, would have stood ready with clean linen to bind the wound
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When, either by the monopoly of the home market, or by a bounty upon exportation, you enable our woollen or linen manufacturers to sell their goods for somewhat a better price than they otherwise could get for them, you raise, not only the nominal, but the real price of those goods; you render them equivalent to a greater quantity of labour and subsistence; you increase not only the nominal, but the real profit, the real wealth and revenue of those manufacturers ; and you enable them, either to live better themselves, or to employ a greater quantity of labour in those particular manufactures
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Woollen or linen cloth are not the regulating commodities by which the real value of all other commodities must be finally measured and determined ; corn is
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The long table was decked in crisp, white linen and the benches were all covered in the same white cloth
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The progress of the linen manufacture of Great Britain, it is commonly said, has been a good deal retarded by the drawbacks upon the re-exportation of German linen to the American colonies
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First, those colonies, in preparing themselves for their non-importation agreement, drained Great Britain completely of all the commodities which were fit for their market ; secondly, the extra ordinary demand of the Spanish flota has, this year, drained Germany and the north of many commodities, linen in particular, which used to come into competition, even in the British market, with the manufactures of Great Britain; thirdly, the peace between Russia and Turkey has occasioned an extraordinary demand from the Turkey market, which, during the distress of the country, and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplied ; fourthly, the demand of the north of Europe for the manufactures of Great Britain has been increasing from year to year, for some time past; and, fifthly, the late partition, and consequential pacification of Poland, by opening the market of that great country, have, this year, added an extraordinary demand from thence to the increasing demand of the north
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In the single article of linen alone, the consumption of those colonies amounts, it is said (but I do not pretend to warrant the quantity ), to more than three millions sterling a-year
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The capital which supplies the colonies with this great quantity of linen, is annually distributed among, and furnishes a revenue to, the inhabitants of those other countries
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By those regulations, for example, the merchant of Hamburg must send the linen which he destines for the American market to London, and he must bring back from thence the tobacco which be destines for the German market; because he can neither send the one directly to America, nor bring the other directly from thence
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the pound was imposed upon the importation of foreign brown linen yarn, instead of much higher duties, to which it had been subjected before, viz
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15, the same law which gave a bounty upon the exportation of British and Irish linen, of which the price did not exceed 18d
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the yard, even this small duty upon the importation of brown linen yarn was taken away
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In the different operations, however, which are necessary for the preparation of linen yarn, a good deal more industry is employed, than in the subsequent operation of preparing linen cloth from linen yarn
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To say nothing of the industry of the flax-growers and flaxdressers, three or four spinners at least are necessary in order to keep one weaver in constant employment; and more than four-fifths of the whole quantity of labour necessary for the preparation of linen cloth, is employed in that of linen yarn ; but our spinners are poor people; women commonly scattered about in all different parts of the country, without support or protection
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By extorting from the legislature bounties upon the exportation of their own linen, high duties upon the importation of all foreign linen, and a total prohibition of the home consumption of some sorts of French linen, they endeavour to sell their own goods as dear as possible
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By encouraging the importation of foreign linen yarn, and thereby bringing it into competition with that which is made by our own people, they endeavour to buy the work of the poor spinners as cheap as possible
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Both the bounty upon the exportation of linen, and the exemption from the duty upon the importation of foreign yarn, which were granted only for fifteen years, but continued by two different prolongations, expire with the end of the session of parliament which shall immediately follow the 24th of June 1786
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Ancient Egypt, on the contrary, though it exported some manufactures, fine linen in particular, as well as some other goods, was always most distinguished for its great exportation of grain
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The price, however, which a lady, it is said, would sometimes pay for a piece of very fine linen, seems to have been equally extravagant ; and as linen was always either an European, or at farthest, an Egyptian manufacture, this high price can be accounted for only by the great expense of the labour which must have been employed about It, and the expense of this labour again could arise from nothing but the awkwardness of the machinery which is made use of
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Yet the fiber of the plant itself was so strong it was used to make fine linen
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” I slid the needle inside the linen and stopped stitching
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She gently wiped my face with a linen handkerchief
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Set on four legs, linen covered the pallets
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There was the chest he made for me to hold our wedding gifts and the many pieces of linen my mother and I made
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A share in the stock of the British Linen company of Edinburgh sells, at present, very much below par, though less so than it did some years ago
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Bare-footed, he wore an ankle-length, seamless tunic of white linen with the tied girdle reaching to the floor
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I was later told he wore this over white linen underclothing
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Now, I straightened linen covers and looked around at the love and care Joseph put into this room
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The chest he made to hold wedding gifts and many pieces of linen my mother and I made resided along one wall
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Finally, I wrapped his dear head in a linen napkin, kissing him just before his face was completely covered
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A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life
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The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen
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But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct
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The use of linen renders soap such
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Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butcher's meat, as it in most places requires that he should wear a linen shirt or a pair of leather shoes
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Foreign materiais are, upon this account, sometimes allowed to be imported duty-free; spanish wool, for example, flax, and raw linen yarn
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In 1708, those duties were all (except the old subsidy of tonnage and poundage, of which one moiety only was made a part of this fund, and a duty upon the importation of Scotch linen, which had been taken off by the articles of union) still further continued, as a fund for new loans, to the first of August 1714, and were called the fourth general mortgage or fund
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It turned out to be a cozy place with checkered tablecloths, real linen, and the obligatory wine bottle with the
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Miss Barton moved the “Texas” down the coast, and finding a lack of cots, clean linen, cooking utensils, medical supplies, and suitable food at the hospital, she landed her entire staff and the necessary stores, just as the hundreds of wounded began to pour in from San Juan
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But in the fair white linen
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together with a strong linen band
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My tears were uncontrollable as I lay in bed holding fast to the pillow and the light linen sheet covering me
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The front of the ivory linen jacket she had lent her was torn and stained by trails of it, and more matted her hair against the left side of her head while a steady drip fell from her elbow
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He sat on his patio behind a table set with white linen, china and crystal stemware
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The airframe was covered in the finest Irish linen, and it was framed up with spruce spars, hickory and ash, braced with piano wire internally and braided aircraft cable externally
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So the old morale has been boosted, that’s fine, and I seemed to have fallen in love with the woman who sat across the fresh, crisp, linen tablecloth
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She dressed for her role with skill, selecting a lovely, light chiffon thing, which she complimented with a white linen hankie
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The immaculate fresh-air scent of his soft linen shirt touched her senses
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He threw a smelly, charred piece of coloured linen on the corner of the desk
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So he used what he thought was a quite practical way of keeping track of his whereabouts: he took off his cloak and cloth shirt and hanged the white linen shirt on a tall yet thin green stalk; he decided he would stray only as far as he could keep an eye on his shirt