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"Sateen" Quotes from Famous Books

... red sateen Pierrette, quivering, teeth flashing beneath a saucy half mask, bowed to a sateen Pierrot, whose face was as slim as a satyr's and whose smile was as upturned as the eye ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... dangling from three fingers of one hand, looking so absorbedly down the avenue after the vanishing outlines of a glittering carriage that had just rolled splendidly by, that the dregs of my water-can trickled all unheeded by me, down the side of my new sateen frock, accomplishing what, in the eyes of my step-mother, would seem nothing less than an absolute ruin ...

— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"

... experience, she discovered that she could get a black sateen shirt-waist for fifty cents. Rubbers and a cotton umbrella took another dollar and a half. She must save at least a dollar to send back the ...

— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill

... A white sateen dress embroidered in black and red, and a flapping leghorn hat tied down gypsy style with a crimson ribbon, was a picturesque costume, but not orthodox as a yachting costume at Ryde. Bessie had a provincial ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... me. The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously well uplifted white sateen coatpans. So womanly, full. It ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... a few inches by flexing his body; his feet remained as they were. And as Peter ran his eye from the black crown hat to the faded blue jacket, the black-sateen pants, which were clipped about the ankles, giving them a mild pantaloon effect, and to the black slippers with their thick ...

— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts

... eyes upon that sleeve of Jane's dress which was the nearer. It was of black sateen. It fitted ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... feed hungry people on layer-cake! It's an imposition.... I didn't notice which one it was. Doesn't matter any way. Only twenty-eight. Ah, here are our boys. They've got blue silk running-breeches on. Well, maybe it is sateen. Let the women folks alone for knowing sateen from silk a mile off. How much a yard did you say it was? Notice the way they start with their hands on the ground, just like the pictures on the sporting page of the Sunday newspapers. Here they come. Oh, I hope ...

— Back Home • Eugene Wood

Words linked to "Sateen" : cloth, textile, material, fabric