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  • She had boiled the sheets and pillow-slips and the table linen.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Up to five, whether shoes or shirts or pillow-slips, Michael would fetch the number requested.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • Twice a week they had to put through hotel linen, - the sheets, pillow-slips, spreads, table - cloths, and napkins.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Twice a week they had to put through hotel linen, - the sheets, pillow-slips, spreads, table- cloths, and napkins.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Mike had removed the bedspread from the enormous bed revealing pale blue sheets and scalloped pillow-slips to match.

    Barefoot Bride Cork, Dorothy 1980

  • Exceptin 'one thing, all the rest about my green rep sofy a-goin' to Cousin Phoebe, the pickle-caster to Brother Henry, the old dishes what can't be sold to my beloved nephew, Jason Weatherwax, and my best tablecloths and sheets and pillow-slips to his little Ann Eliza when she gets a husband what's a good provider, is fixed jest as it hed ought to be.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • The linen pillow-slips were as fine as those Señorita Isabella Fitch showed me, when she gave me the few highly prized lessons in simple drawn-work; and her cousin, Señorita Leese, had taught me hemming.

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • I washed, starched, and ironed the pillow-slips while grandma was from home, and they did look well, for I had taken great pains in doing my work.

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • The custom is to furnish clean cases and pillow-slips once a month, and it is difficult to secure more frequent changes of bed-linen.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • The lack of clean bedding being made known, these generous, patriotic women sent in soft, clean old sheets, pillow-slips, etc., also a few old shirts, -- some of them even bearing with me the horrors of the scurvy and gangrene wards to assist in making the sufferers more comfortable.

    Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

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