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Example sentences for "antimacassar"

Lexicographically close words:
antiguo; antiguos; antike; antiken; antil; antimacassars; antimonial; antimoniate; antimonic; antimonious
  1. Meantime Old Nick sat stuffing an embroidered antimacassar into his mouth, laughing till the cushioned sofa and the picture above shook in dismay.

  2. Old Nick threw the antimacassar under the sofa, and his face resumed its most serious expression.

  3. Turning her wrathful gaze from Moses, her eye lighted on the soiled pink hat and antimacassar still worn by Job.

  4. An antimacassar bearing wide magenta and red crocheted stripes covered his back causing him to strut with peacock pride.

  5. David took from the back of his chair a crochet antimacassar with a lion rampant in the center and spread it over his knee.

  6. David, with a sigh, returned the crochet antimacassar carefully to its place on the chair back.

  7. Her crochet antimacassar lies in the arm-chair.

  8. I took the bowl and held it under my nose, while Harût threw over my head the antimacassar which he had used in the mango trick, to keep in the fumes I suppose.

  9. A few seconds later she threw off the antimacassar and cast the bowl, in which the fire was now out, on to the floor.

  10. Then he handed the bowl, from which once again the blue smoke curled upwards, to Miss Holmes, and gently and gracefully let the antimacassar fall over it and her head, which it draped as a wedding veil might do.

  11. She descends, in a hurry, and flings the antimacassar under the couch, as Miss Gower enters.

  12. She snatches an antimacassar from a chair and jumping onto the couch, waves it frantically to those outside.

  13. The old lady in the antimacassar said, abruptly, "Ah!

  14. The illustration shows the fourth of the antimacassar and the whole of the rosette which forms the centre.

  15. The small rosettes and remaining patterns of the antimacassar are easily worked from illustration.

  16. The edge of the antimacassar is ornamented with a grey woollen fringe.

  17. The voice of the antimacassar worker broke the silence.

  18. Joe, banging the little triangular table with his fist, and thereby causing the man with the antimacassar to drop a couple of stitches.

  19. In the drawing-room, not a tassel of an antimacassar touched!

  20. And the vision of Mr. Povey in his antimacassar swept Sophia off into another convulsion of laughter and tears.

  21. And now, accustomed to the presence of the young virgins, and having tacitly acknowledged by his acceptance of the antimacassar that his state was abnormal, he gave himself up frankly to affliction.

  22. Constance had taken the antimacassar from the back of the chair, and protected him with it from the draughts.

  23. Strides up and down, seizes another antimacassar and flings it into another corner.

  24. Rising, in his enthusiasm--the antimacassar slips on to the seat.

  25. Close to where I saw was a spacious couch, over the centre of which was thrown an antimacassar of silken crochet-work.

  26. The square, dark-green antimacassar had been placed in the exact centre of the couch, and sewed down in order to keep it in its place.

  27. He had dragged down the antimacassar that usually adorned the chair back and was plucking at the threads and rolling the edge of it into a tight curl.

  28. He stood up, he flung the antimacassar to the floor, his hands worked up and down his coat, tearing and fingering at the buttons and the buttonholes.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antimacassar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.