Word: muslin
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...leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance. She then wrote two letters, flattering him, pretending that she had important information, dressed herself seductively in a gown of loose white Indian muslin, put green instead of black ribbons on her hat, had her golden curls fashionably powdered and rearranged, returned to try again. This time Marat admitted her despite the attempts of his wife and sister to keep...
...taken to Marat, found him sitting in his bath, correcting proof on a plank laid across the tub. Seriously ill, Marat spent his days in a slipper tub, nude to the waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising...
...cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
...strange half-Oriental, half-African flavor of the book is concentrated in the scene that gives it its title. A criminal in Addiet, remote mountain city, was sentenced to "death by fire, in muslin," for having shot at the native prince. Rolls of muslin were dipped in hot wax and honey, wrapped in layers around the prisoner, almost entirely covering him except for his eyes and nose. Stiff-legged, he was stood up in the centre of a small fire. "It was early morning; cows lowed. The witnesses smelled the perfume of honey given out by the living candle...
...them in good Louisiana style and way. So, Mr. President, I bought a frying pan about 8 inches deep . . . and I bought a 10-pound bucket of cotton-seed-oil lard. ... I took the oysters, Mr. President, the way they should be taken, and laid them out on a muslin cloth, about twelve of them, and then you pull the cloth over and you dry the oysters. You dry them, you see, first with a muslin cloth, and then you take the oysters, after they have been dried, and you roll them into a meal which is salted...