oiled silk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With fine oiled silk suture on arterial needles, the incision is closed, and the clamps are removed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
From the inner breast pocket he withdrew a bulky pocket-book, a map and an envelope, sealed and addressed and enclosed in oiled silk.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Byfield, however, directed them to slit a seam of the oiled silk and cut away the car, which was by this time wholly submerged and not to be lifted.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Cover the part with oiled silk to prevent the evaporation of the perspirable matter, and thus to keep it moist.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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