silklike

The plant grows about 15 inches high and produces pink or red silklike flowers.

On the next day he rose briskly near dawn and dressed in the cool silklike clothes that had been provided for him.

There stood a tight-clad figure in garb of grayish, silklike texture.

She was sewing a silklike synthetic into slim, sheer little stockings, connected to one another by thread.

THREE white silklike roses are tied to the utility pole.

As a marketing stunt, he once created a silklike purse out of gelatin extracted from a sow's ears.

The tent was richly fashioned, with silklike hangings and thick rugs and pillows.

He wore a loincloth of some silklike material girdled with a broad belt which supported a long knife in a leather sheath.

He was dressed hi a leather jacket and heavy, silklike breeches of dark green, ending in leather leggings.

Mr. Klauser said the pocket's interior is lined with a silklike material that provides a pleasant tactile sensation for nappers and boxers alike.

The prince stood down toward Tess's feet with one hand resting on her legs, which were also concealed by a silklike fabric that gleamed white under lantern light.

Calling All Mulberries China gave silk to the world, so it seems appropriate that Chinese scientists have now created a silklike yarn out of carbon nanotubes.

Nylan knelt beside the small bed, his fingers going out past the silklike pillowcase with the green and purple embroidered edging to the forehead of the fevered child.

Most visible amid the current raincoat crop is the floating silklike number from the master tailor Azzedine Alaia (large picture at left, and photo at top center).

On the outer side of the belly is the regular skin of the fish, which should be removed along with the thin white silklike skin on the inner side.

You know what I mean: a leatherlike box with a silklike lining that holds a bottle of Champagne and some inexpensive glasses decorated with the Champagne house's logo.

Algin could be spun into silklike threads and was the basis of virtually all the colonists' clothing and other fabric, as well as products like films, gels, polishes, paints.

In silklike green shirt and trousers, with a heavier but sleeveless vest of purple wool, the healer sat on the green velvet settee and touched the place beside her.

Even pretty - a word all but banished from the fashion-oriented end of the market in recent years - returned in a cloud of marquetry inlays and silk or silklike fabrics.

Today the massive Federal and Greek Revival homes that overlook the Beaufort River on the historic jut of land known as the Point are a testament to the incredible wealth amassed from this silklike cotton.

It was another busy street, brightly lit, the tube lights set into the ceiling undimmed by any protective sleeves, the trafficway flanked by prosperous-looking stores, alternately selling mecha and cheap karakuri and bolts of bright, silklike fabrics.

Empynes and Gyneeses, clothed in long tunics and pants, stood with Captain Garth, who wore a long coat of a silklike fabric over his uniform; he had mentioned that the weather in this region could be cool.

Twenty years later, as the result of a bizarre chain of events that has shaken the golf establishment, Willie is able to play the silklike greens and picture book fairways of the Shoal Creek Country Club in Shoal Creek, Ala.

Ilie Wacs has a trench coat of olive green cire ($315 at Bergdorf Goodman), and Searle has a dashing long version of silklike polyester in a beautiful shade of forest green ($560 at Saks Fifth Avenue).

A small guy with a fleshy, pointy nose and a silklike jacket with a strip-club logo on the back was haunting the glass-top counter that displayed the dope paraphernalia the Pumpkin was carrying until the inevitable Crusading DA finally got around to cracking down.