Hexagonal machine-made net fabric used in lacemaking.
1With a gesture of impatience he strode up to Miss Bobinet's door and rang the bell.
2The one resource lay in the bookcase that rose above the old-fashioned secretary in Miss Bobinet's front hall.
3The only word that got past the grizzled fringe that bordered Miss Bobinet's shriveled ear was the last one.
4When Nance was not listening to tirades against Susan up-stairs, she was listening to bitter complaints against Miss Bobinet down-stairs.
5"Lida Purdy's a fool," said Miss Bobinet, crossly.
6Whatever possible interest she might have taken was destroyed by the fact that Miss Bobinet insisted upon winning two out of every three games.
7Miss Bobinet gazed at her in stony silence, then slowly closed her eye, and took up her snore exactly where she had left it off.
8"What about Miss Bobinet?"
9"It's Cousin Lucretia Bobinet!"