tow-cloth

In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.

Postcard : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.

2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007

It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro, in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat, like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

"Charming Duchess, that would be worse sacrilege than to cover a costly jewel with tow-cloth," rejoined Tickels; and the lady smiled at his gallantry, as she remarked --

Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson

Then, there was black Dinah, who got her living by scraping the gutters, and came home every night with a great tow-cloth bag upon her back, and emptied the old bones and rugs and papers on the floor of her room, and kept a broom handle to whip the little Flanigans, who ran in to steal them, when she went to the pump in the alley to get a drink of water.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro, in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat, like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

There was only a heavy knife at the beaded girdle, which belted his hunting shirt and breeches of muddy tow-cloth.

The Hidden Children 1899

In a willow basket, newly woven, I saw a heap of clean, wet shirts and tow-cloth rifle-frocks.

The Hidden Children 1899

As I sat thinking at our bush-hut door, the endless lines of wagons were still passing toward Otsego Lake, piled high with stores, and I saw Schott's riflemen filing along in escort, their tow-cloth rifle-frocks wide open to their sweating chests.

The Hidden Children 1899

It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a Negro, in tow-cloth jacket and trousers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat, like the cap of Mercury, and mounted on the back of a ragged, wild, half-broken colt, which he managed with a rope by way of halter.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1886