1 As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 2 Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the ceiling," as she put it, for lint.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F... 3 Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor new linen as old linen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F... 4 Ever since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making lint.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED 5 She saw that she was tired of the endless knitting and the endless bandage rolling and lint picking that roughened the cuticle of her nails.
6 Outside the window, beyond the fly-screen that was opaque with dust and cottonwood lint, Main Street was hushed except for the impatient throb of a standing motor car.
7 What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
8 "You don't spare anyone," said Julie Drubetskaya as she collected and pressed together a bunch of raveled lint with her thin, beringed fingers.