shammy

Example Sentences

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“I always bring, and will certainly have my shammy, “Sammy” with me.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2016

“Only if you wear a shammy around your hairline. Did you wear a shammy?”

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

Then he tried to channel his thoughts from hate filled digressions to how in the vicissitudes of life among so many shammy faced people a face like his maintained a fairly stable look.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

The day after to-morrow we go in cavalcade with the Duchess of Richmond to her audience; I have got my cravat and shammy shoes.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

They have had an afternoon's boating on the river; and, now returned to the "Harp"—their place of put-up—are flush of talk over their adventures, quaffing the sham "shammy," and smoking "regalias," not anything more genuine.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne