sail-cloth

No delusive display is there; only samples of the business, whatever it may chance to be, — such, for instance, as three or four tubs full of codfish and salt, a few bundles of sail-cloth, cordage, copper wire hanging from the joists above, iron hoops for casks ranged along the wall, or a few pieces of cloth upon the shelves.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

The altar was a bare fir table, with a coarse stool for kneeling on, covered with a piece of thick sail-cloth doubled, by way of cushion.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I found however two strange manufactures for so inland a place, sail-cloth and streamers for ships; and I observed them making some saddle-cloths, and dressing sheepskins: but upon the whole, the busy hand of industry seemed to be quite slackened.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

We had come to the end of sail-cloth and ropes, we had too little food and a minimum of oil; all this would have to be provided.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

If the crew of any passing vessel had caught sight of us as we lay still and inanimate upon our sail-cloth, they would scarcely, at first sight, have hesitated to pronounce us dead.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

All by his own request, also, biscuits were then ranged round the sides within; a flask of fresh water was placed at the head, and a small bag of woody earth scraped up in the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail-cloth being rolled up for a pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed, that he might make trial of its comforts, if any it had.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

He unloaded the drag-sleigh with exuberant haste and tugged the patched sail-cloth shelter free of its ties.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

The particular cargo the potter had to deliver lay rolled in a length of coarse sail-cloth in the bottom of the boat, and oozed water in a dark stain over the boards.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

The particular cargo the potter had to deliver lay rolled in a length of coarse sail-cloth in the bottom of the boat, and oozed water in a dark stain over the boards.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

Spring, now, was mad about little things like that, and when eventually we did come to bury Comber on the morning after, and his body had been laid out on a plank by the rail, all neatly stitched up in sail-cloth, our fastidious commander played merry h-- l because no one had thought to cover it with a flag.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971