Sentence examples for no linen from inspiring English sources

The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen.

"The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen.

No linen closet?

We are sitting, on the morning of March 5, at Le Mini Palais, a fashionable restaurant in the same building as the Chanel show that has just ended, which is so overbooked with wealthy Chanel customers that Niedzielski has had to persuade the maître d' to set her up with a wobbly table with no linens in what appears to be the storage room.

Even the tablecloths had to evoke Google, which meant no billowy linen, Ms. Pollack said.

He invented the "four-pointer" in 1934, since then, he as worn no ordinary linen except with evening clothes.

Since its founding in 1988, Hello has flourished as the antithesis of the scandal sheet, airing no dirty linen and offering not a jot of titillation.

She passed up a pink shift dress ("too short to be sophisticated"), pleat-front trousers ("too fattening") and a row of linen shirts ("no character").

There are no bed linens, or enough scissors to cut umbilical cords.

But at Mr. Ortlieb's weekend house in the horse country of Pine Plains, N.Y., there are no Frette linens, Italian Bisazza tile floors or Japanese soaking tubs — not even a pool.

For those of you with your eye on farm tables, don't get too excited about the linens you no longer need because you're not actually saving any money as farm tables can be close to $300.