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We have seen a good many specimens of them, both of the real quilted counterpanes, in which several thicknesses of material were stitched together into a solid covering, and the lighter silken or linen coverlets ornamented with all sorts of embroidery.— Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
One end of a thread, either silken or metallic, should be passed through the fistula, and then as far backwards as convenient through the cheek into the mouth; the needle should then be withdrawn, the thread being left in.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
Corn and maize were growing green and silken, vines were in the small bud.— The Lost Girl
Maybe so; but the Dog had it long before we did TALE 68 Why the Dog Turns Around Three Times Before Lying Down Yes, they all do it; the big St. Bernard, the foolish littlest lap Dog, the ragged street Dog; give them bare boards, or a silken cushion, or snow, three turns around and down they go Why?— Woodland Tales
She loved her silken, satin clothes, perfumed and embroidered and orchid-crowned, yet most of all she loved her lord and master.— The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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