cocoonery

That kind of smug cocoonery loses elections e.g., Clinton - Dole, 1996.

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Her first project at Temple No. 1 was to convert the outhouse into a cocoonery.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Lefty began waltzing Desdemona around, European-style; he waltzed her outside, across the yard, over to the cocoonery, and back under the grape arbor, and she laughed and covered her mouth with her hand.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

She was in her silkworm cocoonery, high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, when her heart, without warning, missed a beat.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

She went inside the cocoonery to look at her silkworms for the last time.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Grandson of the two former silk farmers (with chalkboard and worry beads), he has never had to help in the cocoonery.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

For the greater part of an hour Desdemona had been trying to ignore her foreboding by working in the cocoonery.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Instead she heard her mother, Euphrosyne Stephanides, speaking in this very cocoonery years ago, elucidating the mysteries of silkworms — “To have good silk, you have to be pure,” she used to tell her daughter.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Farming the silk, making the cocoonery, weaving the .

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

He had planted about twenty-five hundred mulberry-trees, built himself an inexpensive but quite sufficient little cocoonery, bought an ounce and

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865