The first life of Eli Whitney is the "Memoir" by Denison Olmsted (1846), and a collection of Whitney's letters about the cotton gin may be found in "The American Historical Review", vol. III (1897). "Eli Whitney and His Cotton Gin," by M. Foster, is included in the "Transactions of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association", no. 67 (October, 1899). See also Dwight Goddard, "A Short Story of Eli Whitney" (1904); D. Tompkins, "Cotton and Cotton Oil" (1901); James A. Scherer, "Cotton as a World Power" (1916); E.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
Under these rules cotton is being obtained about as fast as by any other process, and yet the enemy receives no "aid or comfort." Under the "gold" rule, the country people who had concealed their cotton from the burners, and who openly scorned our greenbacks, were willing enough to take Tennessee money, which will buy their groceries; but now that the trade is to be encouraged, and gold paid out, I admit that cotton will be sent in by our open enemies, who can make better use of gold than they can of their hidden bales of cotton.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
I had already been approached by all the consuls and half the people of Savannah on this cotton, question, and my invariable answer was that all the cotton in Savannah was prize of war, belonged to the United States, and nobody should recover a bale of it with my consent; that, as cotton had been one of the chief causes of this war, it should help to pay its expenses; that all cotton became tainted with treason from the hour the first act of hostility was committed against the United States some time in December, 1860; and that no bill of sale subsequent to that date could convey title.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-2》
<42.1> Cassandra Cotton, only daughter of Sir George Cotton, of Warblenton, Co. Sussex, and of Bedhampton, co. Hants, died some time before 1649, unmarried. She was the sister of Charles Cotton the elder, and aunt to the poet. See WALTON'S ANGLER, ed. Nicolas, Introduction, clxvi.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
The cotton, of which I procured specimens, though cultivated by the Indians in the most primitive manner, exhibited a texture not unlike the celebrated Sea Island cotton. Its fibre is exceedingly soft and silky, but not of the longest staple. Large tracts of land on the Gila and in other portions of this district, appear to possess the same properties of soil; and where, I have no doubt, the finest cotton will soon be extensively raised and brought to its highest state of perfection by proper cultivation."英文原著 · 《Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona》
The cotton industry is one of the most ancient. One or more of the many species of the cotton plant is indigenous to four continents, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the manufacture of the fiber into yarn and cloth seems to have developed independently in each of them. We find mention of cotton in India fifteen hundred years before Christ. The East Indians, with only the crudest machinery, spun yarn and wove cloth as diaphanous as the best appliances of the present day have been able to produce.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
I have the worst case of cotton mouth in the history of-- What? No, you can talk with cotton mouth.美剧 · 《Suits》
I do not wish to discuss time of the month when ladies must chase the cotton mouse.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
First one to mention Lawrence Boyd has to buy everyone else cotton candy?美剧 · 《Billions》
So what you're seeing here is actually cotton hulls from Texas, in this case. So what you're seeing here is actually cotton hulls from Texas, in this case.演讲 · 《Are mushrooms the new plastic ~ Eben Bayer》