tow-linen

She had but one garment on—a coarse tow-linen shirt…She made a disgusting proposition to me.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

She had but one garment on—a coarse tow-linen shirt…She made a disgusting proposition to me.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Thomas ` a Becket, stripping him of everything, and put the tow-linen shirt on him.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

He had blue eyes and flaxen curls like his white comrade, but even the father of the white child was able to tell the children apart -- little as he had commerce with them -- by their clothes; for the white babe wore ruffled soft muslin and a coral necklace, while the other wore merely a coarse tow-linen shirt which barely reached to its knees, and no jewelry.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

I remember where she stood, and how she looked; and I can still see her bare feet, her bare head, her brown face, and her short tow-linen frock.

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

He scrambled out at once, when told to do so, and submitted to being dried with a big, tow-linen towel.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

He had blue eyes and flaxen curls like his white comrade, but even the father of the white child was able to tell the children apart -- little as he had commerce with them -- by their clothes; for the white babe wore ruffled soft muslin and a coral necklace, while the other wore merely a coarse tow-linen shirt which barely reached to its knees, and no jewelry.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

She undressed Thomas ` a Becket, stripping him of everything, and put the tow-linen shirt on him.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893