cotton-shrub

The waste cotton-shrub, long useless, disobedient, as the thistle by the wayside, -- have ye not conquered it; made it into beautiful bandana webs; white woven shirts for men; bright-tinted air-garments wherein flit goddesses?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

The waste cotton-shrub, gather its waste white down, spin it, weave it; that, in place of idle litter, there may be folded webs, and the naked skin of man be covered.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

The waste cotton-shrub, long useless, disobedient, as the thistle by the wayside, -- have ye not conquered it; made it into beautiful bandana webs; white woven shirts for men; bright-tinted air-garments wherein flit goddesses?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

The waste cotton-shrub, gather its waste white down, spin it, weave it; that, in place of idle litter, there may be folded webs, and the naked skin of man be covered.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

They bear _silk-cotton_, which falls to the ground in November and December, but is not so substantial as that of the cotton-shrub, being rather like the down of thistles.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

The right cotton-shrub grows here also, but not on the sandbank.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683

Here is also a little of the right West India cotton-shrub: but none of the cotton is exported, nor do they make much cloth of it.

A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683