Sentence examples for as a silk from inspiring English sources

There are a couple of stunning necklaces for sale too, as well as a silk scarf.

As a silk dealer in Manhattan, he reveled in the Roaring Twenties, but lost all he had, $100,000, in the market crash of 1929.

He was born in Switzerland, the son of a ribbon manufacturer, immigrated to the United States and was listed in New York City directories as a silk merchant.

Prick the inner membrane of a rabbit kidney with your thumbnail and it will slip away as easily as a silk sock.

The colours were delicious - wine, coffee and peach - and many of the pieces, such as a silk blouse or a lace skirt, were beautiful when taken individually.

Olmsted championed natural simplicity and the curative powers of communing with it, railing against parks so prettified that "the face of nature shall everywhere have become as natty as a silk hat".

Initially named Jurupa, the city began as a silk-growing colony.

The newspaper reported that the police believed Mr. Robinson promised to help her go to Texas to train for work as a silk-screen printer.

The clock, operates with what is known as a silk-thread suspension mechanism, a delicate and sometimes temperamental device in which the pendulum hangs from a tiny loop of silk thread.

Ciba started out in the 1850s as a silk-dyeing business and branched out into pharmaceuticals in 1900, by which time it was the largest chemical company in Switzerland.

It's a good performance nicely offset by Simon Williams as a silk-smooth Sir Humphrey, who says of the British civil service: "Our success is founded upon being free from the taint of professionalism".