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. ❋ 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. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

How long the exclusive production, even of the sea-island cotton, will remain to our country, is yet a doubtful and interesting problem. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

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 ... .. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

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. ❋ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Some Southern mills, however, spin very fine yarn from either Egyptian or sea-island cotton, but time is required to educate a considerable body of operatives competent to do the more delicate tasks, while less skillful workers are able to produce the coarser numbers. ❋ Holland Thompson (1906)

For the black-seed or sea-island cotton, the churka, or roller gin, used in India from time immemorial, drawing the fiber slowly between a pair of rollers to push out the seeds, did the work imperfectly, but this churka was entirely useless for the green-seed variety, the fiber of which clung closely to the seed and would yield only to human hands. ❋ Holland Thompson (1906)

Experiments with the Bourbon variety, which yielded the finest lint then in the market, showed that the growing season was too short for the ripening of its pods; but seed procured from the Bahama Islands, of the sort which has ever since been known as sea-island, not only made crops but yielded a finer fiber than they had in their previous home. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

The crops from 1845 to 1854 ranged between seventeen and eighty barrels of rice; and for the three remaining years of the record they included both rice and sea-island cotton. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

It was devoted to sea-island cotton in the 'thirties, but rice was added in the next decade. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

The English market came promptly to esteem the long, strong, silky sea-island fiber as the finest of all cottons; and the prices at Liverpool rose before the end of the century to as high as five shillings a pound. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

At the height of the plantation system's career, from 1815 to 1860, indigo production was a thing of the past; hemp was of negligible importance; tobacco was losing in the east what it gained in the west; rice and sea-island cotton were stationary; but sugar was growing in local intensity, and upland cotton was "king" of a rapidly expanding realm. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

The gross cotton output, in which the upland crop greatly and increasingly outweighed that of the sea-island staple, rapidly advanced from about forty-eight million pounds in 1801 to about eighty million in 1806; then it was kept stationary by the embargo and the war of 1812, until the return of peace and open trade sent it up by leaps and bounds again. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

Detailed statistics are lacking until the first federal census, when indigo was rapidly giving place to sea-island cotton; but the requirements of the new staple differed so little from those of the old that the plantations near the end of the century were without doubt on much the same scale as before the Revolution. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

In the sea-island branch of the cotton industry the methods differed considerably from those in producing the shorter staple. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

[Local] Guy 1- I met some girls who are staying on Sea Island for a [week]. Local Guy 2- Did you get their [numbers]? ❋ BenFriedman (2006)

Jimmy blew a wicked [smelly fart] and then sent [the coney island] [sea breeze] into Marthas face. ❋ T-Bags 69 (2011)