Sentence examples for silk garment from inspiring English sources

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But spiders are the key agents and they have now clothed our entire landscape in a silk garment: all Britain, perhaps, as one single glittering weave.

Mrs. Burke's interest in Japanese art started as a child, with a kimono her mother brought back from Japan a black silk garment decorated with a simple pine tree covered with snow.

The left (female) half shows hair well combed and knotted, half of a tilak (a round dot) on the forehead, the eye outlined in black, a well-developed breast, a silk garment caught with girdles, an anklet, and the foot tinted red with henna.

A quick stop in Gallery 50C, not much bigger than a large closet, will bring you face to face with Vermeer's dewy "Girl With the Red Hat" (1665-66), turning around to peer out of the picture so quickly that you can almost hear the rustling of her blue silk garment.

As it turned out, Rothar was a New York janitor who years earlier, while in a crowd cheering Earhart's arrival from a routine landing at Long Island's Roosevelt Field, had caught the silk garment as the wind blew it from around her neck.

If that doesn't already sound like the ickiest thing in the world, think about the fact that it took 1.2 million hand-sized golden orb spiders going at it for four years to create enough gossamer for this cape, now on display at the V&A as the largest spider silk garment in the world.

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They started arriving in large numbers in London in the 1680s, and were quickly making its finest silk garments.

Lucian is useful because of a well-placed relative (a marquis) and because of his exquisite silk garments.

Inspired by the fame of her friend Charlotte's webs, Fern Arable studied textiles at university and has recently opened her own boutique, specialising in silk garments.

Liotard's mastery of drawing with crayon lets him give people the most electric blue and red silk garments, the most subtly blushing cheeks.

Owing to vestigial impulse, the Morlocks still feed and clothe the Eloi, their once masters — thus the silk garments, the tables heaped with fruit — but they also harvest and eat them.

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