Examples of silken

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The cloth was worked in flowers, of blue silken bands and borders.
The larval habit of living in concealment under dense silken galleries, coupled with the disappearance of the cast skin, renders the determination of instars difficult.
The silken gallery is thick and studded with numerous pellets of excreta and food grains.
Protective silken cocoons around the pupae were not removed during exposure to the high temperatures because we wanted to simulate natural conditions for pupal exposure.
The larvae had to be disturbed and their silken galleries torn off in order to search for the cast head-capsules.
The son arose from his silken quilt as soon as he heard these words, and replied that he would go.
The full-grown larva is at first fond of concealment and feeds enclosed in a silken web.
On reaching food they settle down in silken shelters which they rapidly make by webbing small particles and frass.
Your beauty will be adorned with silken robes and rich gems.
He wears a one-piece cashmere shroud tied at the waist with a twisted silken cord and with rosettes on either side of the turned-down collar.
There is little research on the size of the force needed to shear the silken line to initiate a ballooning attempt.
By the next day they had made individual silken nests for themselves, between stuck-together leaves.
The texture of the cocoon is thick, consisting of whitish silken threads and translucent; the surface has a matt appearance and there are very few loose threads.
Everywhere one encounters the composer's trademark silken elegance and easy modality: graceful piano pirouettes, sarabandes and galliards and unhurried repose underline the deeply reflective quality of this music.
As somebody has asked, are we going to turn the silken purse which we have—the most beautiful in the whole world—into a sow's ear?
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