muslins

• “And the contemporary reader would have recalled Robinson's public appearances in muslins and silks as a sex goddess, a woman of infinite desire and desirability, in the staging of Sappho's love.”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “He was possessed of black slaves and Mamelukes, eunuchs and concubines, and was the wealthiest of the merchants of his time and the goodliest of them in speech, owning horses and mules and Bactrian camels and dromedaries; sacks great and small of size; goods and merchandise and stuffs such as muslins of Hums, silks and brocades of Ba'allak, cotton of Mery, stuffs of India, gauzes of Baghdad, burnouses of”

  Arabian nights. English

• “Mamelukes, eunuchs and concubines, and was the wealthiest of the merchants of his time and the goodliest of them in speech, owning horses and mules and Bactrian camels and dromedaries; sacks great and small of size; goods and merchandise and stuffs such as muslins of Hums, silks and brocades of Ba’allak, cotton of Mery, stuffs of India, gauzes of Baghdad, burnouses of Moorland and”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “In the steam that arose from under her iron, and on the surfaces of the dainty lawns and muslins that flew under her hands, she kept visioning herself in the Pine Street cottage; and steadily she hummed under her breath her paraphrase of the latest popular song:”

  CHAPTER XIV

• “They still will be in the last century, together with the radicals (christians and muslins) I consider all of them POTENCIAL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS!!!”

  Did Obama have a good 2009?

• “The criticism is so ridiculous short of saying “President Obama should be personally strip searching anyone boarding a plane” and even the lardest, imbOcile trolls hiding behind a broom are soiling themselves because the muslins are coming to get them.”

  Think Progress » GOP Sen. Dick Lugar rebukes Cheney criticism of Obama as ‘unfair.’

• “Face it Obama is in the White House because the media, arabs muslins & oprahs fan base polluted Obama with tons of money.”

  Bill Clinton lends a hand on wife's debt

• “In opposition, sets of transparency, light fabrics, blur, such as muslins, silk jersey, lace, a balance with the environment of the cemetery, the landscape...”

  The Huffington Post: Evelyne Politanoff: Lea Peckre: "Cemeteries Are Fields of Flowers"

• “He was collecting projects from wherever he could find them—including those from former students, or muslins left lying on tables.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gunn’s Golden Rules

• “They were clad in thin muslins, their legs bare and muscled under the sheer gowns of their peshwaz, their eyes outlined in kohl, their hair perfumed and aglitter with a freshly washed shine.”

  Simon & Schuster: Shadow Princess

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