The German and Russian ministers take the Mexico as far as Progreso, whence they depart on some sort of hunting expedition, and promise aigrettes and similar vanities.
In one State where Bok's measure was pending before the legislature, he heard of the coming of an unusually large shipment of aigrettes to meet this increased demand.
The aigrettes were now useless; they could not be reshipped to another State, they could not be offered for sale.
After four months of his campaign, he learned from the inside of the importing-houses which dealt in the largest stocks of aigrettes in the United States that the demand for the feather had more than quadrupled!
It is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettesor "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.
The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.
While the fashion for decorating hats with feathers still continues, yet there is a very noticeable decrease in the display of aigrettes and the feathers of wild birds.
Aigrettes are decorative, quills difficult to identify, neither bespeak death, and ignorance may lead the most humane woman into wearing either.
There is a noticeable decrease in the use of aigrettesand of our native birds, excepting the Terns and the plumage of the Owl; and a marked increase in the employment of the wings and feathers of the barnyard fowl.
Paris receives direct a large supply of aigrettesfrom South America and elsewhere.
There are thousands of women who think it is right to wear aigrettes as long as the law permits their sale!
The sale of aigrettes should be stopped, and Chicago placed in the same class as Boston, New York, New Orleans and San Francisco.
Nor can anyone educate the heartless woman of fashion who is determined to wear aigrettes as long as her money can buy them.
It is true that a few servant girls are now wearing the cast-off aigrettes of their mistresses; but they are only as one in a thousand.
Indicating a cluster of paradise aigrettes kept in the office for exhibition purposes, she looked me straight in the face and in the most frank and guileless manner asked me to sell them to her for her new hat!
Years ago, as a boy in Florida, I first had an opportunity to observe the methods employed by the feather hunters in collecting these aigrettes which are the nuptial plumes of the bird and are to be found on birds only in the spring.
The characteristic aigrettes were of even greater brilliancy than in the preceding year, and the chemical effects of the coronal light proved unusually intense.
The robes of state are flowered and figured and heavy with gold; the turbans are huge--sometimes fifteen inches in height and breadth--and adorned with aigrettes of great value.
While the robes differ in color and design--as star differeth from star in glory--and while the aigrettes and sword handles vary in pattern, all are on the same scale and show lavish expenditure.
You don't care for small dogs or paradise aigrettes or Italian villas in Connecticut or diamond-studded cigarette holders or plush limousines or butlers.
The aigrettes are to be obtained only in the places where the herons assemble and drop their feathers naturally, at certain periods of the year.
In view of these facts it seems reasonable to suggest that our law prohibiting the importation of aigrettes should make an exception of feathers coming from Venezuela.
The aigrettes on this hat cost more than one month of your salary.
They are of fine quality, and take the form of aigrettes and earrings set with precious stones and elaborate oval pendants terminating with pearls and ornamented with scroll ornaments intended for execution in enamel (Pl.
The finely executed drawings for jewellery in the Victoria and Albert Museum by Arnold Lulls, jeweller to James I, include four coloured designs for jewelled aigrettes (Pl.
Other jewelled aigrettes in favour in the seventeenth century were composed solely of precious stones.
Livre de Pierreries, Pour la Parure des Dames contains patterns for earrings, brooches, and aigrettes set with brilliants, and for enamelled and jewelled watches.
In the days of Marie Antoinette they were supplemented by hair-pins and aigrettes set entirely with diamonds, which about 1770 had almost entirely superseded coloured stones.
HAIR-PINS Besides the enseigne worn occasionally by ladies, the jewelled aigrettes of more frequent use, and the gold circlets set with precious stones, more elaborate forms of head-decoration were employed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aigrettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
