Thin bleached cotton cloth used for dressings etc

Usage examples of gauze.

Behind him sat the apish behemoth Jingles with his head swathed in white gauze.

A separate race wrapped in wedding-white gauze, and Beane wanted me now for his bride.

I smoothed my hands down my lightweight gauze ruffly, beflounced broomstick skirt, wondering if Tiffany was being catty or if my hips did, in fact, look so massive she had to give me a gentle pointer.

Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.

When she returned, Tannim had strapped himself inand Thomas Cadge was asleep in the back seat with an improvised bandage of white gauze from the first-aid kit thankfully covering the ruins of his eyes.

I had before me a magnificent appearance, but I could not see the soul of the image, for a thick gauze concealed it from my hungry gaze.

She stepped lightly toward him, eyes bright, a celestial vision of floaty ivory gauze and titian curls.

Eyes wide with anticipation, the child tore off the wrappings to uncover a doll dressed in a floaty sari of sparkling green gauze.

Those who resisted its intrusion found that their freewill was brushed aside like so much insubstantial gauze.

It has also the advantage, through a large cap, of concealing the hair, and the white gauze which covers the face does not allow the colour of the eyes or of the eyebrows to be seen, but in order to prevent the costume from hindering the movements of the mask, he must not wear anything underneath, and in winter a dress made of light calico is not particularly agreeable.

I dressed in the sheerest of gauzes and lay beneath a linen shade by the fountain in the atrium, Hylas panting by my side.

Mama Nilla was desperately trying to pacify him with a squeeze bottle of formula with one hand while holding a reddening gauze pad to the forehead of a crying five-year-old with the other.

She was draped in lucent, misty voluminous robes of delicate gauze, in hue the faintest shade of pearly, opaline green.

Most gentlemen regarded them with affection, but rumors sometimes told of ladies drenching an especially hated Phane in tincture of ammonia, which matted her pelt and destroyed her gauze forever.

The Phane, though so carefully bred as to seem a delicate girl, if used sexually became crumpled and haggard, with gauzes drooping and discolored, and everyone would know that such and such a gentleman had misused his Phane.