In its cotton sleeve.

Rair slipped the pen up his frayed cotton sleeve.

The apparatus itself is a long braided rope which has been covered by a soft cotton sleeve (a "web") and is suspended by a gimbal at one end from overhead rigging.

He lifted his hands from Taen's shift, and cotton sleeves tumbled back, unveiling the sultry glow of fet-ters.

She rubbed at her arms, chafing the cotton sleeves of her blouse.

A cotton sleeve tumbles out, bearing a delicate floral print.

Shaking off the very idea of a German father was a wriggle of the shoulders, the thin cotton sleeves pushed down.

Also in the opening section, "Deer of the Stars" was a curious dance for a hunter, a deer whose gestures were charming but sometimes jarringly naturalistic, and a tree ingeniously portrayed by a man in green cotton sleeves.

From top apron with wipe-clean front and comfortable cotton sleeves and back, ages 2-5, £9.95 (funkymuffin.co.uk); butcher's stripe printed cotton, from £8.99 (davinci-textiles.

But it barely scratched the skin and no more than a few scarlet drops showed through the thin soiled cotton sleeve of Kadem's robe.