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Example sentences for "broidered"

Lexicographically close words:
brogans; broght; broghte; brogue; brogues; broideries; broidering; broidery; broil; broiled
  1. Thou hast this day gotten gold, eggs, cheeses, and a little blue purse broidered with silver.

  2. This done, he went to the aumry where his pledges lay, and drew out a little blue purse, broidered with silver, which a dame of the petty trading sort had left with him in her distress.

  3. But the moon just then breaking through the clouds, he recognised Madame Ysabeau and saw she was busy with her beak pushing into a crack in the wall that served her for storehouse a blue purse broidered with silver.

  4. The pretty broidered shoe is no longer anything but an instrument of torture which eternally crushes the heart of the mother.

  5. It was a mournful, straitened home in which they lived, one in which it needed the ardent Protestantism that is breathed in the texts broidered on the samplers to uphold them from a despair that can almost be read between the lines.

  6. It was produced at a school, for there are broidered upon it the names of thirty-five other girls, besides seven bearing her own patronymic.

  7. Then she smiled, as one that hath a bright thought, and straightway loosed the golden fillet that bound her glowing tresses so that they fell about her in all their glory, rippling far down her broidered habit.

  8. So Beltane brought her to the door, but as he came thither the broidered curtain was lifted and he beheld Winfrida, who ran to her mistress, kissing her oft and sighing over her.

  9. You'd know him for my husband dear By broidered kerchief on his spear.

  10. The bright sunshine brought out the crude colors of their homespun petticoats, broidered jackets, blouses, sashes, hose.

  11. Behind her back the tiring maids shrugged shoulders and glanced at each other secretly with lifted eyebrow, as they put gowns and broidered slippers back in their places, to signify that if it began thus they were in for a day of it.

  12. The knot slipped, and a circlet of red and gold, ragged at the lower edges, came off in her hand, revealing the fact that Boris's noble soubreveste was no more than a fringe of broidered collar.

  13. They occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

  14. The contrary opinion is founded on the passage, "I clothed thee with broidered work, and shod thee with badger-skins.

  15. Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail.

  16. He wore, against his wont, upon his helm A sleeve of scarlet, broidered with great pearls, Some gentle maiden's gift.

  17. White was the upper tunic clasped on his shoulder with a broad ouche or brooch; white the woollen leggings fitted to somewhat emaciated limbs; and white the mantle, though broidered with a broad hem of gold and purple.

  18. By way of answer Kari with a little smile stripped himself of his broidered tunic and other garments and stood before us naked to the middle.

  19. Here were no gold or silver or broidered cloths, or gems, or other rich and costly things such as these people love, but rather those that are suited to a soldier.

  20. There was a hearth also with what was rare, a chimney, upon which burned a little fire of logs, while the walls were hung with tapestries and broidered silks.

  21. Meanwhile, Quilla had put on her silver-broidered mantle and her head-dress of feathers, crowned with the crescent of the moon.

  22. Sidenote: The Day of Joy] In the midst of the throng there sat upon a dais a woman in shining raiment of cloth of silver, broidered with roses that had caught their colour from the rose tint of her face.

  23. They arrayed the lady freshly in broidered raiment, and carried her before the Soudan, who was a lusty young man.

  24. Leaning heavily upon the lady, at the end he won to her maiden's chamber, where there was a fair bed covered with a rich dossal of broidered silk, edged with fur.

  25. So this doleful lady took a fair piece of white samite, broidered with gold, and wrought thereon the whole story of this adventure.

  26. She was richly dressed in a kirtle of vermeil silk, broidered with gold, and her mantle was worth the spoil of a king's castle.

  27. His stockings were white, his slippers were of red velvet, and these again were broidered with golden keys.

  28. And first Pierre came to the ante-room of the bussolanti, mere ushers clad in red velvet broidered with the papal arms, who conduct visitors to the door of the ante-room of honour.

  29. The bearers of the Sedia gestatoria* shone bravely in red tunics broidered with gold.

  30. About the doors and windows there were hangings of old lace broidered with flowers in coloured silk whose hues had the very intensity of life.

  31. The Little Playmate had in her hands the broidered handkerchiefs, the long Flemish gloves, and the little illuminated Book of the Hours which I had given her.

  32. Over the beast's forehead is a shaped frontlet of cotton cloth broidered with patterns in colour with pieces of mirror sewn in, and crowned by a Kalgi or aigrette of peacock feather tips.

  33. Beneath this robe was a skirt of golden cloth, half hidden by a scarf of the broidered silk of Cos, falling in folds to the sandals that, fastened with great pearls, adorned her white and tiny feet.

  34. I placed a cap on my head, about which were broidered images of the stars, and in my belt a scribe's palette and a roll of papyrus written over with magic spells and signs.

  35. But I being on the ground, the blow did not fall with all its weight, also my thick hair and broidered cap broke its force; and thus it came to pass that, though sorely wounded, the life was yet whole in me.

  36. Having examined the writing that was on the ring, they bowed, dropping their sword points and we passed through the heavy curtains broidered with gold into the resting-place of Cleopatra.

  37. She folded the chill hands upon the breast whence Passion's breath had fled, and straightened the bent knees beneath the broidered robe, and by the head set flowers.


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