She sat on her heels before the bookcase, the white folds of the burnoose flowing out round her, her fragile hands in her lap, her soft palms upturned, her fluffy hair trailing down to frame her sad face.
Her neck rose from the white burnoose in a curve of the palest amber; her delicate lips were parted; her loosened tresses were filled with the feeble sunshine.
There were many people, including women, in Western dress, but there were also many women in cloaks, and men in the traditional Arab bornoss, the enveloping robe called a burnoose in English.
Rick started to yell a protest, then a burnoose was tossed over his head and wrapped tightly around his chest, blocking out the light.
Suddenly the burnoose was whipped off, and the brilliant sunlight made his eyes water.
It was, apparently, the first notice which the Arab had taken of the girl; but many times during these two days had his cunning eyes peered greedily from beneath the hood of his burnoose to gloat upon the beauties of the prisoner.
The wearing of the Arab burnoose which Tarzan had placed upon his person had aroused in the mind of the anthropoid a desire for similar mimicry of the Tarmangani.
Werper raised the hood of his burnoose that the fellow might see his face.
The burnoose covered the hairy body so that Jane Clayton believed that a human arm supported her, and from the extremity of hopelessness a great hope sprang into her breast that at last she was in the keeping of a rescuer.
The miserable burnoosehe has discarded in the hall, so that, hat in hand, John now appears under his own colors.
Acting under the advice of his guide, John has assumed the burnoose again, for Mustapha carried it on his arm when he appeared.
Pansy's arrival brought a stout, bearded man in white burnoose in from the house behind.
At once she knew who the man in the white burnoose was, although she had never seen him in anything but civilised attire before.
Barclay scanned the big man in the white burnoose who stood looking at him with hatred in his dark, fiery eyes.
It was one thing to attack a tired old horse and a half-stunned girl, but another to face a huge black stallion and the big man in the white burnoose who rode it.
One damp November evening, just before dusk, there arrived a French traveller from Senegal, with a companion closely muffled up in a burnoose at his side.
So we carried him, burnoose and all, into the house where the lady chims were, and liberated him in the doorway.
There are plenty of shops close to the gate, and I will buy a burnoose that will cover you, and a change of clothes for you to make afterwards.
He wore, however, a dark burnoose which completely covered his figure.
The expense was but small, for the costume of an Arab chief differed but little from those of his followers, except that his burnoose was of finer cotton, and his silken sash of brilliant colours, richer and more showy.
He had put on his burnoose as soon as Edgar joined him, and this concealed him almost to his feet when he had mounted.
He bought two Arab suits, and two such as were worn by peasants, and a brown burnoose for Sidi to put on at once.
The empress wore a white burnoose and a black mask which did not in the least disguise her.
I dread the time when the sight of a man in a burnoosewill seem to you such a matter of course that you will pay no attention to it.
As she passed the marabout he drew back and held his white burnoose across his face.
He found Abdullah fully dressed and reading a paper, which he hurriedly thrust into his burnoose when he was interrupted.
When the veil and the burnoose fell, the beauty of the girl filled the room as would a perfume.
But remembering that his yellow caftan was a mosquito net, his black burnoose a Hudson's Bay coat, and his charger an ornery Indian Cayuse, robbed the picture of most of its poetry.
Riding ahead in his yellow caftan and black burnoose was Pierre Squirrel on his spirited charger, looking most picturesque.
Sweat streamed from under Daoud's red velvet cap, and he wished he could wear a turban or a burnoose to keep his forehead cool and dry.
He pulled his burnoose farther down over his eyes to shade them better against the sun.
The notary pulled his burnoose over his shoulders, groped down with his toes for his slippers, and got to his feet.
He pulled the burnoose over his lids to make them dark.
Under the burnoose his face, half shadowed, looked green and white, as if he were sick to his death.
Drawing from his burnoose a sack of Moroccan lambskin, he opened it and lifted out a pearl.
And as he spoke he threw a new white burnoose over Habib's head, so that it hung down straight and covered him like a bridal veil.
In itself the thing was nothing, but as the man had stooped to speak to the officer, Tarzan had caught sight of something which the accidental parting of the man's burnoose had revealed--he carried his left arm in a sling.
I caught only a glimpse of an Arab in a dark-blue burnoose and white turban," replied Tarzan.
He saw instead a figure rather undersized, slightly stoop-shouldered, thin; at least it seemed so then, hid as it was under a dark brown burnoose of the amplitude affected by Arab sheiks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burnoose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
