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Far out from a window above, a girl lay with gasping face and sleevelets on her arms.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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It will be necessary for them to bring a large, plain, white apron, having a bib large enough to protect the dress; a pair of sleevelets; a holder; a small towel for personal use; and a white muslin cap to confine the hair while working.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The uniform consists of a large, plain, white apron with a bib large enough to protect the dress, a pair of sleevelets, a holder, a small towel for personal use, and a white muslin cap to confine the hair.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management Ontario. Ministry of Education
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When Stella Schump was adjusting her black sleevelets next morning, somewhat obviously oblivious of the optical department across the aisle,
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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When dinner time came she divested herself of the black sateen sleevelets, wriggled from the shoulders down a la
Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926
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In the kitchenware one could don black sateen sleevelets to protect one's clean white waist without breaking the department's tenets of fashion.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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At the approach of this stranger Sadie leaned coyly against the stocking rack and patted her paper sleevelets that were secured at wrist and elbow with elastic bands.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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In a desultory way, it had been getting into its sateen sleevelets, adjusting its eye-shades, uncovering its typewriter, opening its ledgers, bringing out its files.
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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Her air of hauteur was a triumph, considering that she was handicapped by black sateen sleevelets.
Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926
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At the approach of this stranger Sadie leaned coyly against the stocking rack and patted her paper sleevelets that were secured at wrist and elbow with elastic bands.
Fanny Herself 1917
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