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Example sentences for "bodkins"

Lexicographically close words:
bodily; boding; bodingly; bodings; bodkin; bodle; body; bodye; bodyes; bodyguard
  1. The Bodkins lived in a gloomy stone house adjoining the grammar-school, of which, indeed, it formed part.

  2. And the Bodkins sneeze At the grim Chinese, For they come from the Phenaycians.

  3. Here a very large party were already assembled, and at every opening of the door a new relay of Blakes, Burkes, and Bodkins was introduced.

  4. All she had gone through was light to her, compared with the pins and bodkins her own sex drove into her heart, whenever she came near the merry crew with her pitcher, and that was every day.

  5. No more than I fear the bodkins of your women," said Gerard, haughtily.

  6. And sticked him with bodkins anon.

  7. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.

  8. It must have had much the shape of one of the huge bodkins in the Naples Museum (Pl.

  9. Other types of needles and bodkins are found in bronze, but many also are of bone and ivory.

  10. Hugh Peters shews the bodkins and thimbles gluen by the wives of Wappin for the good old cause.

  11. Hugh Peters shews the bodkins and thimbles giuen by the wives of Wappin for the good old cause.

  12. Besides this, her head-dress was covered with bodkins of emeralds and diamonds.

  13. For bodkins and for thimbles Now let your tubsters cant; Their confounded tired cause Had never yet more want.

  14. In pamphlets it writ many specious epistles, To cozen poor wenches of bodkins and whistles.

  15. No more than I fear the bodkins of your women," said Gerard haughtily.

  16. It invited Rhoda, if her father would consent, to visit the Bodkins during the remainder of their stay at the seaside.

  17. The Bodkins were ranged in it, in her jealous fancy; and so were the Docketts, and one or two more of Algernon's old friends.

  18. Others had silver arrows, emerald butterflies, or long bodkins set like suns in their hair.

  19. Then the priests, to encourage the people, drew bodkins from their girdles and gashed their faces.

  20. Silver bodkins of great length formed a sun behind her head.

  21. They consist of bodkins or stilettoes made of flint and bone (fig.

  22. In addition to the arrow-heads which we have just mentioned, there have also been found piercers, or bodkins of various shapes (figs.

  23. We must assign to the class of implements the bone bodkins or stilettoes of different sizes, either with or without a handle (figs.

  24. The Bodkins were good landlords and stuck by the farmers.

  25. One of the Bodkins always went into the Church, and was presented with the Grigsby living.

  26. Much of the neglect bestowed upon the disciples of those who consider that land should be let at prairie rates may be traced to the fact that for ten generations the Bodkins have been established in the vicinity.

  27. Here he ministered to the living Bodkins and delivered his sage platitudes to the unheeding ears of the Bodkin effigies that lay in the chancel “—staring right on With calm eternal eyes.

  28. Free and joyously rises her head with its elegant oval, Strongly round bodkins of silver her back-hair is many times twisted Her blue well-plaited gown begins from under her bodice.

  29. Needles and bodkins made of bone are of frequent occurrence, and sometimes also small bone spoons.

  30. I allude to the wearing silver pins or bodkins in the hair behind, the long tresses of which are tied together with a narrow black riband, and divided into two braids.

  31. Various weapons of horn and bone are preserved in the Scottish collection, some of them so slender as to be rather pins or bodkins than lances.


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