mosquito-bar

The ladies are employed in the manufacture of articles pertaining to a higher culture — I allude, as Mr. Micawber would say, to bed-quilts and pillow-cases — the most gorgeous bed-quilts and pillow-cases — made of patchwork, and now and again you will see a mosquito-bar in course of construction, of course not made of net or muslin because of the awesome strength and ferocity of the

Travels in West Africa 2003

The cloth produced is of four kinds: (1) The ordinary skirt or mosquito-bar cloth made out of _abaká_ fiber and having white and black longitudinal warp stripes, alternating with the stripes of the red background; (2) a closely woven but thin cloth of

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Betsy's commander as he lay on the sand in his blanket and under a huge yellow mosquito-bar, but had evidently concluded that any man who could snore as that man usually did was not a good subject for attack, and so came on down the beach in search of blood less formidably defended.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

The owner of the eyes was at arm's length, with nothing but a mosquito-bar intervening.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

We assented, stretched our rubber blankets, spread our woollens, adjusted the Betsy's long mosquito-bar and crawled carefully under it in expectation of a glorious sleep under the stars and the pines; but the dreams of the Hattie's captain, the trombonings of the Betsy's nose, the tossings of the Fritz and the savage industry of the mosquitos drove anything but troubled sleep from our eyelids, and we welcomed the early

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Dick was ashamed when he got up to breakfast to find that Mr. Streeter and Johnny had been at work for an hour and had got everything ready for a start, even to the mosquito-bar, which one of the family had already made.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

I went to his house and found him eating inside the mosquito-bar.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

Oh! you may need a mosquito-bar, and if you do want it you're likely to want it bad.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

The climax came when one night, when he was not supposed to be on guard, I found him prowling with his rifle in the vicinity of Morse's mosquito-bar.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Lifting his mosquito-bar, I let the torch-light fall on his bed.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923