Miss Pinckney still knitted antimacassars, and the construction of antimacassars is impossible without Berlin wool--that obsolete form of German Frightfulness.
Our grandmothers went in for antimacassars instead of neurasthenia.
The reader is made to feel that, on these interesting occasions, Mr. Furze wished his wife and her antimacassars at the bottom of the deep blue sea; and one rather admires his self-restraint in not explicitly saying so.
Mrs Griffith motioned the two men out of the room, and hurriedly put antimacassars on the chairs.
The roof of the house was the dining-table, and the walls were tablecloths and antimacassars hanging all round, and kept in their places by books laid on their top ends at the table edge.
There were hard chairs--far too many of them--with crochet antimacassars slipping off their seats, all of which sloped the wrong way.
It must have stuck to his shoulders when he sprang up from the sofa, woollen antimacassars being notoriously parasitic things.
A fire brightened the drawing-room, which was a truly magnificent apartment, a museum of valuables collected by the Baines and the Maddack families since the year 1840, tempered by the latest novelties in antimacassars and cloths.
The utmost I can hope for is to sit alone by the fireside, and work antimacassarsin crewels.
What can happen to a woman who sits at home and works crewel antimacassars and reads novels all day, and never drinks anything stronger than tea, and never eats enough to disturb her digestion?
When Lillie Dulcimer had hung it up, she looked round upon the antimacassars and felt a proud and happy girl.
Here," replied Lillie, indicating the epigrammatic antimacassars with a sweeping gesture.
Heavy antimacassarsembellished the horsehair-covered sofa and the armchairs.
The antimacassars had been taken from the big Bible and replaced.
Mrs. Yellam rose up, snatched three antimacassars from their abiding-place and covered the Bible with them.
Over the backs of the easy-chairs were laid antimacassars of finely crocheted white lace.
Caution, too, had been mistakenly exercised here and there; the black satin furniture had no antimacassars and the centre-table no ornament except a vase of orchids and calf-bound books.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antimacassars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
