His costume was simplicity itself consisting of an old straw hat, and a piece of coarse "osnaburg" tied around the waist! ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
Their clothing was certainly simple enough, each and all wearing only a kind of pinafore or smock frock reaching from the neck to the ankle and made of very coarse osnaburg, but kept as clean and whole as the nature of their employment allowed. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Winter clothes was good and warm; dresses made of yarn cloth made up jus 'lak dem summertime clothes, and petticoats and draw's made out of osnaburg. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
It was Dinah, no longer clad in coarse osnaburg, but arrayed in a worsted gown, and a little grayer and a little bulkier than when I saw her eight years before. ❋ Various (N/A)
Holland and tufted Holland, osnaburg and kersey, and seventeen ells (45 inches in English measure and 27 inches in Dutch measure) of sheeting, as well as yarn stockings. ❋ Annie Lash Jester (N/A)
Wintertime, I wore a balmoral petticoat, osnaburg drawers, and er-r-r. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
Them ticks was made of coarse home-wove cloth, called 'osnaburg,' and they was filled with straw. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
Commonly they lie down at night on the bare floor, with a small blanket wrapped round them in winter, and in summer a coarse osnaburg sheet, or nothing. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
Mattress ticks was made out of osnaburg and us filled 'em wid wheat straw in season. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
Our osnaburg mattress ticks were filled with straw. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
Two dresses of osnaburg were then given each person. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
In de winter us had good warm clothes, made out of coarse ausenburg (osnaburg) cloth. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
For underwear, we wore balmoral petticoats and osnaburg drawers. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)
"I can easily credit a female of taste -- yes, any female -- refusing the ill-mannered, bold-staring rogue," said Janice, giving the coarse osnaburg shirt she was working upon a fretted jerk; "but to suppose him to be capable of a grand, devoted passion is as bad as expecting—expecting faithfulness in a dog like Clarion." ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram -- all heavy and comparatively coarse materials -- or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
They dressed in calico in summer and in winter linsey-woolsey, and wore at their work ample aprons of osnaburg, a small checked blue and white cloth. ❋ John Albee (1874)
Every wagon should be furnished with substantial bows and double osnaburg covers, to protect its contents from the sun and weather. ❋ Randolph Barnes Marcy (1849)
'Twixt the sun and osnaburg and fustian my skin feels as if I'd been triced up and had a round hundred. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
