shammy

Example Sentences

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“I always bring, and will certainly have my shammy, “Sammy” with me.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2016

“Only if you wear a shammy around your hairline. Did you wear a shammy?”

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

He scrubbed his lips with one end of the napkin and called across to Ruth, who shrank behind her mother: ``Vell, Miss Dene, you have today a shammy seen, not?''

From In the Quarter by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

The skin of the chamois is very soft; made into leather it was the original shammy, which is now made, however, from the skins of many other animals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

She immediately handed him an old shammy glove, tied up into a hard knot, which he felt some difficulty in unloosing.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William