And whereas up to fifty years ago Burford was a rich country town, famous for the manufacture of paper, malt, and sailcloth-enriched, too, by the constant passage of numerous coaches stopping on their way from Oxford to Gloucester-it is now little more than a village-the quietest, the cleanest, and the quaintest place in Oxfordshire.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
Some are made of boards, and some of sailcloth.
"The Siege of Boston"
Allen French
The carts were loaded with coffee, the sacks the negroes carried were coffee-sacks, the shining green berries were exposed to dry on stretches of sailcloth in vacant lots, among the ruins on the sides of the streets.
"Plotting in Pirate Seas"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler