sea-island

Obedient to my sense of duty, I handed her the last vestiges of my former glory: my dinner jacket trousers not yet run in, my Turnbull & Asser bow tie to match, my pleated dress shirt of best sea-island cotton, my onyx dress studs and cufflinks, silk socks, patent leather shoes.

the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

& Asser bow tie to match, my pleated dress shirt of best sea-island cotton, my onyx dress studs and cufflinks, silk socks, patent leather shoes.

The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

There was also a complete display of sea-island cotton in bales and types, together with threads and the various cloths manufactured from same, the cost of installation and maintenance being $2,400.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

How long the exclusive production, even of the sea-island cotton, will remain to our country, is yet a doubtful and interesting problem.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Looking down the bay on the right, was James Island, an irregular triangle of about seven miles, the whole island in cultivation with sea-island cotton.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Of this "sea-island" cotton about three to four million dollars 'worth is exported annually at a price averaging from two and one fourth to two and three fourth times the value per pound of the "upland" cotton.

Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

This would be understood when it was known that sea-island cotton had fallen from 50 or 60 cents, to 25 cents -- a fall even greater than that which has attended wheat, of which we had heard so much -- as if the grain-growing section was the only agricultural interest which had suffered ... ..

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Carolina a species of cotton grows ( "sea-island" cotton) which is the finest in the world, its fibres being the longest, finest, and straightest, of all cotton fibres produced anywhere, and the most beautiful in appearance in the mass.

Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

Among the majestic trees that formed natural archways above our heads, shutting out completely the sun's fervid rays, we noted especially the banians and cotton trees, the latter frequently besprinkling our heads and shoulders with what seemed at first glance a shower of _bonâ fide_ snow, but on examination proved only the light, fleecy down of sea-island cotton.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

The Avon Mills in Gastonia spin number 60's from Egyptian cotton, and the Daniel Mill at Lincolnton has spun from combed sea-island cotton the finer numbers up to number 100.

From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina 1906