The men wore aprons like butchers, caps and long-tailed coats.
Martin, coming in from the dusty road, found her before the stove, one of his mother's gingham aprons tied around her waist, and turning sweet potatoes in a big iron pan.
Little girls of tender years wear brightly colored woolen dresses, one-piece aprons of black sateen or colored chambray, and the picturesque big stiff bonnets of the faith.
Why, Mrs. Percival and the children--gowns and aprons and pretty things that any young wife might be proud to have.
Liddy, her arms loaded with the coarse towel-aprons which she--knowing soul!
Both Peggotty and Mrs. Gummidge had their aprons to their eyes, and Ham had just stepped out 'to take a turn on the beach'.
What will you charge for making a dozen aprons of bird's eye diaper for my little Anna?
In Oajaca and Chiapas, the men wore a piece of deer or other skin fastened round the waist, and hanging down in front, and the women wore aprons of maguey-fibre.
The Cochimí women make aprons of short reeds, strung upon cords of aloe-plant fibres fastened to a girdle.
Aprons are about a span wide, and of different length.
Little boys in pink-checked gingham aprons ran about or stood, feet apart, staring with frank curiosity at tall East Indians.
Men in khaki with leather aprons were working about it, while the driver stood by, smoking a pipe.
We discussed the best way to raise children, and how convenient it would be if aprons could only be made to button in front.
She was making small ruffled skirts and apronswith pockets.
I was wondering what colour of aprons you wore, and if I must make them.
Those of Bougainville Straits make their scanty aprons of the leaves of a scitamineous plant named "bassa" which, when crushed in the fingers, have a pleasant scent.
They at once came out of the water, and began to interrogate my guides, having first provided themselves in the most unabashed manner with temporary aprons of fern fronds and the leaves of trees.
They go naked, wearing only short aprons of palm leaves.
Now don't back out if you happen to see one of your mother's aprons on the clothes-line.
Now, we want all of the boys to come, because it won't be any fun if there isn't an even pattern of apronsand neckties.
All of us girls must meet as often as we can, during the coming week, to make aprons and neckties out of print.
Piles of white linen, and some aprons and quilts; and in a little box in the corner a spray of orange-blossom which she had bought from a smouse.
On hearing this considerate stipulation, up went three women's apronsto their eyes.
When she came, she was not only without a penny in her pocket, but she owed pounds for her outfit of aprons and caps and dresses.
On certain days, when I went out towards five o'clock, I had to push my way through a procession of bishops in aprons and gaiters, deans and ordinary parsons who were legion, dowagers and duchesses who were as sands on the stairs.
She bought aprons and a new black blouse and skirt, and she was so spruce and neat in them that I was encouraged to hope.
I may be wrong, but I fancy that the Housekeeper would have found a way to rout this weekly invasion if, in the aprons and gaiters, she had not seen symbols of the respectability which was her pride.
And the Masters of the Anatomy that be about the body to have like aprons and sleeves every day both white and clean.
In a Christmas parcel sent to me from Italy this year, I found two of the dearest little aprons I have ever seen—much less owned.
They were so very unusual and yet so simple of make, that I feel every girl who is fond of aprons would love to have one.
As all four were exceedingly hungry they welcomed the repast, which was served by an army of lobsters in royal purple aprons and caps.
A box of white aprons was lifted from the shelf and a choice made, but even that transaction could not last forever, as Wesley Dean was desperately aware.
You wrapped up them aprons like somethin' was after you, and I was trying to get my nerve up to speak to you.
You could go into one of the big stores and get aprons for fifty, sixty cents, but they wouldn't be good value.
He stuffed the forgotten aprons into his overcoat pocket.
He adds the significant remark that "these ideas of decency and modesty are only observed at the age of sexual maturity," just as in Central Australia women may only wear aprons after the initiation of puberty.
And she ran over a list of things, dresses and aprons and handkerchiefs, and all kinds of working materials.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aprons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
