The linen – drapers of Hammersmith were astounded at the sudden demand for blue sarsenet ribbon, and long white gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

The leather box was lined with sarsenet that Sharpe supposed had once been of royal purple, but was now so faded and worn as to be of the palest and most threadbare lilac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

The next Wednesday was fixed for the eventful day, and it was unanimously resolved that every member of the committee should wear a piece of blue sarsenet ribbon round his left arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

The child reddened, looked sulky, and hesitated, while the mother, with many a fye and nay pshaw, and such sarsenet chidings as tender mothers give to spoiled children, at length succeeded in snatching the bonnet from him, and handing it to the English leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

The ceelor, vallance, and curteins lyned with crymson taffata sarsenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

New Saxony -- three shillings the yard -- and trimmed with blue sarsenet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

Item, two hoods of violet cloth, whereof one is lined with green sarsenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

Nicholas, pulling out, not a skein of blue silk, but a yard of blue sarsenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference

'Sarsnets': usually spelled sarsenet; a very fine silk material used for dresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentlewomans Companion] Reference

I have seven shillings and six-pence to pay for a yard of blue sarsenet, which I do not want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference

"Miss O'Brien, where is the salmon-coloured sarsenet? or, Mr. Green, I'll trouble you for the ladies 'sevens.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm] Reference

The linen-drapers of Hammersmith were astounded at the sudden demand for blue sarsenet ribbon, and long white gloves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference

There were also canopies, and coarse diaper towels, quilts of coarse sarsenet, and of calico, and carpets like those of Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07] Reference

The vestry was hung with "red sarsenet, most richly beseen;" whilst the belfry was ordained for the offices of the pantry, confectionary, and cellar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852] Reference

"Marry confound thine impudence," retorted Lambourne; "thou wouldst not compare thy pudding face, and sarsenet manners, to a gentleman, and a soldier?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

A crymson sattin counterpointe, quilted and embr. with a golde twiste, and lyned with redd sarsenet, being in length iij yards good, and in breadth iij scant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

Pare the patient's nails when the fit is coming on, & put the parings into a little bag of fine linen or sarsenet, & tie that about a live eel's neck in a tub of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Pare the patient's nails when the fit is coming on, and put the parings into a little bag of fine linen or sarsenet, and tie that about a live eel's neck in a tub of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Bradstreet and Her Time] Reference

He could smell the stuff of her veil, the sarsenet of her bodice, and, as it were wrapped in these odours as her body was wrapped in its clothes, the faint fleshly perfume of her body itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

Lady Carberon had resolved to brave the public eye in a cambrick petticoat under a loose floating drapery of sarsenet, which, with the addition of a chemise, was literally every garment that adorned the form they were not calculated or intended to conceal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parisian; or, Genunine Anecdotes of Distinguished and Noble Characters] Reference

A piece of blue sarsenet ribbon round his left arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference

Encased in the sarsenet was an embroidered tapestry bag about the size of a Rifleman’s canteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Rifles]

"Wilt give me thy beggar's wallet, and staff, and cloak, if I give thee my horse, and this cloak of crimson sarsenet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales From Scottish Ballads] Reference

Cecilia’s dress, a white sarsenet, simply but elegantly trimmed, occupied lady Eglantine’s thoughts; her coral earring and necklace set off the dazzling whiteness of her neck, and lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference

"I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northanger Abbey] Reference

Deborah’s French cap, composed of sarsenet and Brussels lace, shaded the features which had so often procured him a rebuke from Dr. Dummerar, for suffering his eyes, during the time of prayers, to wander to the maid-servants’ bench.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

"I remember tooMiss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly, that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all night for thinking of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northanger Abbey] Reference

"I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northanger Abbey]

“I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce – coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northanger Abbey] Reference

"Well, why not get a yard of sarsenet?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference

The cap may be lined with scarlet sarsenet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc.] Reference

Whose sarsenet skirts are edg'd with flamy gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Whose sarsenet skirts are edged with flamy gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference

“thou wouldst not compare thy pudding face, and sarsenet manners, to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference