cambric

• She had bought a good stout English cambric--lively colored, as she called it--and a nice woolen or stuff frock, as goods of that kind was often called. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
• I don't mind where you get it; and then you are to buy me seven yards of pink cambric, and seven yards of white cambric, and seven yards of blue cambric. —  Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World
• She chose a neat white cambric, and insisted on Irene putting it on. —  A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls
• In an instant, this panther tore it out of his hand, as if in a state of ecstasy, nor ceased to roll over it till the cambric was in fragments The day after his arrival at Cape Coast, he was led into the hall where we were all dining; and he received our salutations with apparent pleasure. —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
• In the soft earth at the water's edge they discovered a spare paddle stuck upright and to it was tied a bit of cambric, her handkerchief Phil struck a match and examined it carefully, making out a dim "O.K." which she had marked on it with a lead-pencil He heaved a breath of relief and smiled as he wrapped it carefully about a dollar bill and tucked it away in his card-case CHAPTER XXIV THE RACE BEGINS It was just a few minutes past eleven o'clock when Cristy Lawson climbed to the railroad track out of breath and hurried towards the section shanty. —  Every Man for Himself

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