Sentence example with the word 'selvedge'

selvedge

Definition n. border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet

Last update: September 16, 2015


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From behind the planet. The silver selvedge of the dawn edging the   [Please select]

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Their route led along the shore, and among the dry sand-wreaths, swirled up near the selvedge of the woods.   [Please select]

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So it ran indefinitely--this thin selvedge of advantage which money could buy--with deprivation on the one side, and surfeit on the other.   [Please select]

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He saw that the selvedge of the cloud came no nearer.   [Please select]

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She is dressed in a threequarter ivory gown, fringed round the hem with tasselled selvedge, and cools herself flirting a black horn fan like Minnie Hauck in Carmen.   [Please select]

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This is before any of the others have noticed aught peculiar in the aspect of the sky, and when there is just the selvedge of a cloud seen above the cliff.   [Please select]

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