sendal

Example Sentences

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In the evening they stumbled on a pavilion of red sendal, with nobody inside.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"Was not thy daughter dark-haired?" said one of the outlaws; "and wore she not a veil of twisted sendal, broidered with silver?"

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

Distaff of light is in her hand, From which she spins the lily, and The sendal robes of field and forest, With dewy odors in every strand.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

Others think that sendal and the other forms are modifications of the ancient Sindon, and this is Mr. Marsh's view.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

"Sails of silk and ropes of sendal," and poetic noiseless movements only would suit these lovely Malacca Straits.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)