silken

• 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the fistula, and then as far backwards as convenient through the cheek into the mouth; the needle should then be withdrawn, the thread being left in.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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