cotton-waste

One of my duties was to gag it with cotton-waste, but even then its choking gurgle was a most uncomfortable sound in your dining-room.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

I threw the cotton-waste into the fo'c'sle, made an onslaught on my hands, and then mounted the companion ladder.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

I could only use hurried efforts to make it look its best by plying a bunch of cotton-waste and a floor-brush; by pitching into racks and lockers the litter of pipes, charts, oddments of apparel, and so on, that had a way of collecting afresh, however recently we had tidied up; by neatly arranging our demoralized library, and by lighting the stove and veiling the table under a clean white cloth.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

And who would notice the look in an ayah's eyes as she wiped her beloved mem-sahib's ant-ridden bunk with cotton-waste soaked in kerosene, and who on earth would connect the jungle guide with the

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

~ -- In the manufacture of collodion or soluble cotton the finer qualities of cotton-waste are used and the acids used in the dipping tanks are much weaker.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

The form of cellulose used is cotton-waste, [C] which consists of the clippings and waste material from cotton mills.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

"No, not synthetic starch and cotton-waste flour-substitute," he had insisted.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

In the far corner of the lift, the emotional Jules was sobbing silently into the bunch of cotton-waste which served him in the office of a pocket-handkerchief.

The Adventures of Sally 1928

She inserted in the fire-chamber a handful of the cotton-waste and set fire to it; then with a preliminary puff or two of the bellows to make sure that the conflagration had not gone out, she aimed the nozzle at the front door of the hive.

Uneasy Money 1928

He relieved her of the stool, the smoker, the cotton-waste, the knife, the screwdriver, and the queen-clipping cage.

Uneasy Money 1928