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  • My skirts hung cotton-cloth limp over a couple of pairs of oxfords while I waited to get as old as my big sister.

    Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007

  • My skirts hung cotton-cloth limp over a couple of pairs of oxfords while I waited to get as old as my big sister.

    Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007

  • My skirts hung cotton-cloth limp over a couple of pairs of oxfords while I waited to get as old as my big sister.

    Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007

  • My skirts hung cotton-cloth limp over a couple of pairs of oxfords while I waited to get as old as my big sister.

    Humor for a Sister’s Heart Patsy Clairmont 2007

  • Money being unknown, such bulky articles as cotton-cloth, tobacco, and beads are necessary to provide meat and milk, and he who would eat bread must load his camels with grain.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • The Mexicans spun and wove their cotton-cloth just in this way before the Conquest, and malacates of baked clay are found in great numbers in the neighbourhood of the old Mexican cities.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • They are 'impossible' as cotton-cloth at twopence an ell was -- till men set about making it.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • Each of us carried half a dozen darts, and strapped around our waists, outside our cotton-cloth armor, we each wore

    The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

  • These Indian communities always rejoiced in being able to produce for themselves almost everything necessary for their simple wants; but of late years the law of supply and demand has begun to undermine this principle, and the cotton-cloth, spun and woven at home, is yielding to the cheaper material supplied by the factories.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • Sometimes one sees women weaving cotton-cloth, or _manta_, as it is called, in a loom of the simplest possible construction; or sitting at their doors in groups, spinning cotton-thread with the _malacates_, and apparently finding as much material for gossip here as elsewhere.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

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