Word: musliner
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...models to show the garters off and models to show the garters off and models mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract...
...grey muslin mask of a face...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
...Charity was modeled after the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent, France. The Sisters embrace Charity, in whose arms they live and die. They vow chastity and bind themselves to obedience. They care for the sick and poor. Their dress is black, covered with a short cape. Their white muslin cap, with a crimped border, has a black crepe band, is fastened under the chin...
...like a morgue than like a fete. We have had the Tree for a long time and have never had a fire, but every year there are a number of drunks there who insist on smoking and who might easily leave a lighted match where it could set a muslin skirt afire. That this danger is considerable, perhaps more considerable than we realize, seems possible from the fact that I have heard from several different sources of graduates, who had got very nervous on this account...