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Her heavy twilled bombazine dress was more resistant to water.

All this bombazine, just because the beloved Albert died?

Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments.

Still kneeling, he absently smoothed the back of his hand across the dark bombazine.

My working parasol is of stout black bombazine with a steel shaft.

He was brought up to the bombazine trade, which he carried on for some time at Norwich.

Then Em snorted and shook herself, her stiff bombazine rustling.

From neck to ankles, stark and unfeeling, the black bombazine stared back at her.

She trotted up the folding steps in an energetic flurry of black bombazine.

Black bombazine was once used largely for mourning wear, but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century.

Lara looked down at her black bombazine dress, gripping a loose fold of cloth.

Quality bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft.

Her dress was a plain black bombazine.

He came from a family which had manufactured Kidderminster stuff and bombazine in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Here comes another with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak.

Before their anxious eyes, these innocent girls see the much-beloved skirts of black bombazine they brought from home consumed in flames.

Over a gold-brocaded stomacher hung a noble sacque made of heavy bombazine.

Anyway, I took refuge in his bombazine bosom and 'Crack' sort of sloped off.

Mrs. Lively was appareled in a dress which looked exactly like the rusty brown bombazine she'd worn the day before.

That suffocating life of bombazine, of predictability, where a visit to Scarborough was a great event.

Mary Surratt led the way, wearing a black bombazine dress, black bonnet, and black veil.

The same couldn't be said for the wispy woman in faded bombazine who was seated in the hooded chaise.

A second Norwich textile manufacturer, Robert Blake, specialized in cotton and bombazine.

The black bombazine dulled her complexion, and the ruffled cap hid the richness of her hair.

No gingham frocks here, but gowns of silk and satin, bombazine and velvet.

Maggie's wearing a plain black dress made of what she calls bombasine, buttoned up to the neck.

Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone.

I did not make the obvious remark that the girls seldom wear more than a shift (they are not often let out of the house) while Rosanna Townsends only costume is a rusty, green-black bombasine shroud.

A garnet ch deftly undipped from the bombasine blouse worn favour nanny earned a gaol term or transportation no dif-it to the neatest unclipping of a diamond pin from the : bodice of a duchess.

It turns out that the teenage daughter, Ces Ambre, presumed killed in the Pax Base Bombasine massacre of Spectrum Helix civilians, had actually been shipped offworld with more than a thousand other children and young adults.

Mrs Pipchin almost laughs as the fly-van drives off, and she composes her black bombazeen skirts, and settles herself among the cushions of her easy chair.

This,' said the fellow, producing one, 'this is the infallible and invaluable composition for removing all sorts of stain, rust, dirt, mildew, spick, speck, spot, or spatter, from silk, satin, linen, cambrick, cloth, crape, stuff, carpet, merino, muslin, bombazeen, or woollen stuff.

Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazeen, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles.