Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravellings
Literary usage of Ravellings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Doc Williams: A Tale of the Middle West by Charles Henry Lerrigo (1913)
"... XXXVIII THE ravellings WITH what General Wilton was able to explain of his
daughter's past, one thing was very sure—if David was the son of Gentleman ..."
2. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"Look at these ravellings in my basket ; a rich person would never suppose they
could be turned to anything, but I have made that rug ..."
3. Nursing: Its Principles and Practice: For Hospital and Private Use by Isabel Hampton Robb (1906)
"For muslin bandages strips of the proper widths are torn and, the ravellings from
the sides having been removed, are wound tightly and evenly by hand or on ..."
4. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... the down of wild-fowl, cedar-bark-fibre, ravellings of foreign blankets, or
more commonly of a mixture of several of these materials. ..."
5. A Manual of Chemistry, on the Basis of Professor Brande's: Containing the by William Thomas Brande (1828)
"The difference between these three modifications of the same substance is very
striking, the raw silk detaining ihe heat for 1824' ', the taffeta ravellings ..."
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