Quotes About Cloth

turquoise-and-green cloth that cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate confection of twists, curls and coils. Her face, as intricately lined as a map, was powdered white and finished with bold scarlet lipstick. In her lap, her hands were a cluster of rubies, emeralds and white, bony knuckles; only her nails, unvarnished, cut short and square like my own, struck an incongruous note.

If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and of excrement…. A piece of the body torn out by the root might be more to the point.

I could have sat and worked awhile, but the change of hands would show in the cloth.

Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the cloth.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

For the age of the voice is over and we in the age of the written mark. The word on stone, the word on parchment, the word on cloth, the word that is even greater than the glyph, for the word provoke a sound in the mouth.

To cool the smoke, which is hotter and coarser than that of tobacco, a filter consisting of a damp cloth was sometimes held over the mouthpiece. In India, the pipe was known as a chillim (sometimes spelt chillum or chillam) which derived from the Hindi chilam, meaning a chalice.

Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!

I have often been called eccentric by the detectives and one of the reasons for this is that I have a large cloth covering my desk. It hangs down on to the floor.. Underneath my desk I have several large pillows and whenever I need time out, I creep into my little private enclave to think.

FOR A POET by Countee Cullen I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long will cling the lips of the moth, I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth; I hide no hate; I am not even wroth Who found earth's breath so keen and cold; I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold.

As they say: know a lady by her manner, a man by his cloth.

Fortunately she spread nothing except food on the beckoning cloth, and his sanity partially returned.

Edeard was taken to one of the rooms on the seventh floor, where a tailor who specialized in dressing militia officers was summoned to produce a set of constable uniforms made from cloth more fitting to someone of his new "status.

You are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth,

They are to place over this a covering of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth over it, and insert its poles.

And they shall spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with fine leather, and insert the poles.

Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with fine leather, and insert the poles.

And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ëI discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.í But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.

One young man who had been following Jesus was wearing a linen cloth around his body. They caught hold of him,

The cloth that had been around Jesusí head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.