linen

And linen spread out.

I was checking the linen rotation.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Yeah, going through other people's dirty linen.

Let's not wash our dirty linen in public.

Strip off the clean linen. Spread old rags instead.

Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen. Found 'em.

He wore a dark brown velvet jacket with a high, black, linen lined collar turned up about his neck.

Suddenly, with a start, he perceived a coiled and blood stained bandage of linen rag hanging in mid air, between him and the wash hand stand.

Because I learned that I was thinking, I was doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals, separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people

It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.

Might not the basket, stable broom, mat making, corn parching, linen spinning, and pottery business have thrived here, making the wilderness to blossom like the rose, and a numerous posterity have inherited the land of their fathers?

Speak e! tell ee me who ee be, or dam me, I kill e! again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire.

Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.

A life without shame in his day, what that meant was a linen shirt, and today, well, you still need the shirt, but you need the hybrid car, the HDTV, two holidays a year in the sun, the netbook and iPad, the list goes on an almost inexhaustible supply of goods, driven by this anxiety.