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

Josiah iled up the old double harness and washed the democrat off and rubbed it down with shammy skin till it shone like glass.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

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

She immediately handed him an old shammy glove, tied up into a hard knot, which he felt some difficulty in unloosing.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William