Dainty corsets were there, and hose of silk, and gowns which famous costumiers had made, and little white shoes of satin and bows of many hues, and even bonnets with gay feathers in them.
The bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the head-bands and the tablets and the earrings.
A pretty idea this, of rustic innocence and rural retirement, of straw bonnets and shepherding, of the new school to which you belong and who are the enemies of everything permanent.
Large bonnets were common, and the hair was dragged stiffly to the back of the head, to be secured by a large comb.
Women in short jackets, hooped skirts, hideous bonnets and shawls seemed to have banished their youth.
Women whose husbands could not afford to maintain a light horse for the king's service had no business with gowns or petticoats of silk, chains of gold, French hoods, or bonnets of velvet.
With these French gowns came small coal-scuttle-shaped bonnets of straw, hung with many ribbons and decorated with feathers.
Get your bonnets and shawls; make haste, for ladies should never stay where everything is in confusion.
In truth, the time for departure had arrived, and the mammas had already donned their bonnets and shawls.
The bonnets were chiefly Parisian, as were many of the gowns.
Having put on veils, no bonnets being permitted within the precincts of a church, we entered this far-famed sanctuary, and were dazzled by the profusion of silver with which it is ornamented.
The ladies of our party wore dresses and bonnets as simple, fresh, and elegant as could be seen in any part of the world.
At the wharf below the bridge there lay a magnificent steamer, painted pea-green and white, with flags flying from her masts, and the deck swarming with smart bonnets and bodices.
As the hour of eleven approached, and the church bells began to ring, the town seemed to awaken suddenly from a trance, and bonnets the most superb, and dresses the most extravagant, poured forth from lodgings the most miserable.
Pretty ladies in fashionably pitched bonnets smiled, and said, "One of your little ones, Mrs. Buller?
I said, after prayers the next morning, "you must come out for a walk as soon as ever you can get your bonnets on.
Ten times rather would I have her lying there such as she is, than have her well and strong and silly, with her bonnets inside instead of outside her head.
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
For you know, dear, as I haven't been able to go to church these three months, I don't even know what sort of bonnets ladies wear.
At the first appearance of the Park family in church, madame noted every article of toilet which the ladies wore, from their bonnets to their brodequins, and took a survey of the attire of the ladies' maids in the pew allotted to them.
The three girls in the beaver bonnets were no handsomer than the turnips that skirted the roadside.
Satin headbands and lace-trimmed bonnets not having been invented in her day, Rachel Leah wore the stately knupf or turban on her shaven head.
It would be rent and shoes and bonnets and everything for everybody.
Their caps or bonnets were of black velvet, adorned with jewels and buttons of gold.
Father's was split across, and the lock torn off, and in the place of the hundreds of articles it contained, I saw two bonnets at the sight of which I actually sat down to laugh.
I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten, though over there lies her knapsack ready, too, with our bonnets and veils.
Round him the grenadiers of the Old Guard--they with the furbonnets and the grizzled moustaches--tighten up their ranks.
Frischemont the first line of Prussian bayonets were silhouetted against the sunset sky, then did Napoleon's old growlers with their fur bonnets and their grizzled moustaches enter the line of action to face the English guards.
And if I had a uniform at all for my orphans it should be of a good warm purple, with plenty of fringe and plush and buttons; and the standard weight of the bonnets should be thirteen ounces.
I think we had better put off our bonnets and coats?
You have no reason, looking back, to believe that your great-aunts wore bonnets for great and indefinite spaces of time.
Measured by adult time, those bonnets were, it is to be presumed, of no more than reasonable duration; they had no more than the average or common life.
We are often asked by summer brides whether they should wear bonnets or round hats for their travelling-dress.
The bonnets were of white chip, with feathers of red, for this last dress; broad hats of yellow satin, with yellow plumes, will surmount the heliotrope bridesmaids.
In Paris these stage costumes set the fashions, and bonnets and caps and gowns become individualized by their names.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bonnets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
