ravellings

Always provide some nesting material near at hand; linen or cotton thread, ravellings, tow, hair and excelsior are all good.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

Discovering a female industriously hopping about near the camp, and suspecting what it was seeking, she dropped some ravellings of a white cotton string from the veranda railing, letting {23} them fall where the bird could see them.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

I felt that she would be the kind to leave ravellings in her wipes, and things like that.

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

Two of her own dresses of cotton striped with silk Mrs. Washington showed with great pride, explaining that the silk stripes in the fabrics were made from the ravellings of brown silk stockings and old crimson damask chair covers.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

In non-importation days Mrs. Washington even made the cloth for two of her own gowns, using cotton striped with silk, the latter being obtained from the ravellings of brown silk stockings and crimson damask chair covers.

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

But, once in office, he picked up the Eustis ravellings and announced a plan of campaign which included an attack on Montreal from Lake Champlain; the destruction of

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

About every third page revealed cloud-like fluffs of silk ravellings in all the colors of the rainbow.

Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie

The ball of ravellings forming the mop became then thoroughly, charged with tar or pitch and dried in a rough mass scarcely less heavy than lead.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

"They seemed to me to be ravellings of some coarse cotton stuff — a sheet, perhaps, or an improvised rope."

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

Then he opened his eyes and stepped out into the trampled space and gazed thoughtfully down upon the few scattered bits that lay strewn about upon the snow -- a grinning skull, deeply gored here and there with fang marks, the gnawed ends of bones, and here and there ravellings and tiny patches of vivid blue cloth.

Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921