nankin

The little green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by their funereal contact.

Les Miserables 2008

His father was also a man of incredible good-nature, always wore a long nankin coat, and whatever was said to him he responded with a smile.

The Jew and other stories 2006

I knew those who had been to her house on Rue Saint-Dominique—with its blue nankin porcelain, the furniture in yellow wood from Guadeloupe, and in the little room used to dine, a round table and the mahogany chairs covered in black horsehair.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

I knew those who had been to her house on Rue Saint-Dominique—with its blue nankin porcelain, the furniture in yellow wood from Guadeloupe, and in the little room used to dine, a round table and the mahogany chairs covered in black horsehair.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

I knew those who had been to her house on Rue Saint-Dominique—with its blue nankin porcelain, the furniture in yellow wood from Guadeloupe, and in the little room used to dine, a round table and the mahogany chairs covered in black horsehair.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

A sturdy lad came in, in a green nankin long coat, with a blue collar and livery buttons.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Before two minutes had passed the crowd had beaten a retreat in various directions; and on the ground before the tavern door could be seen a small, thin, swarthy creature, in a nankin long coat, dishevelled and mangled ... a pale face, rolling eyes, open mouth ....

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

This man wore, winter and summer alike, a yellow nankin coat of German cut, but with a sash round the waist; he wore blue pantaloons and a cap of astrakhan, presented to him in a merry hour by a spendthrift landowner.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

He had on a long-skirted, shabby, yellowish nankin coat, with small buttons and a high waist; his hair was dressed in the Russian fashion with a parting straight down the middle; he had

Virgin Soil 2003

She used to buy a piece of yellow nankin and make up three suits as nearly as possible alike, except for size.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003