Let us invite only the tolerable-looking girls in each family, and nochaperons with turbans and large caps to overshadow the room," said Captain De Crespigny, drawing a broad dash of his pen through the name of Lady Towercliffe.
The old, strait-laced ideas about chaperons are now decidedly behind the times, and the parents and guardians who try to maintain them in all their rigid integrity will only find that the too-tightly-drawn bow will soon snap.
Chaperons are not at all wanted, and I can go home in Hester's fly.
That is the worst of Ellen's parties, that there are no old chaperons with experience, that could advise you on a point like that.
Why, in Charleston the chaperons would have requested the whole dance to be stopped.
Then she seemed to brace herself, for Mrs. Winchester had left the line of chaperons and was making her way down to where we were dancing.
Just as we came from behind the palms who should be bowing to the chaperons but the handsomest man I ever saw in my life.
She must not open letters; she must not be prying and inquisitive; she must not give reasons for the girl she chaperons to regard her as "a dragon.
She may go to a dancing party at a private house or a club in case proper chaperons are provided for the affair and they almost invariably are.
No gentleman invites ladies of position to a party unless one or many chaperons are to be present.
The fact that young men are hosts to the young women on such occasions makes it the more necessary that chaperons should be numerous and not too vivacious in character.
Dances are also given to which it is understood chaperons are not invited, the hostess again acting in that capacity, but at large balls and dances chaperonage is considered indispensable for young ladies.
If the chaperons have apparently no one to talk to she should introduce one of her own relatives, if she cannot give much of her own attention to them, and she should arrange that all her guests are taken in to supper.
Young ladies do not now return to their chaperonsafter each dance, or after they have been to the tea-room.
More discreetchaperons were impossible, and after the first glance they took no further notice of the lovers, confining their conversation to each other, and their attention to the stage.
To speak more plainly, then, it is the duty of chaperons to see that the right men don't sit out with the wrong ladies.
She looked upon it that all what she would have termed successful marriages were as much owing to the clever diplomacy of mothers or chaperons as the victory of a horse in a big race is due to the skilful handling of his jockey.
There can't be two girls with chaperonsdeparting up the Nile!
Girls gadding about the face of the earth--picking up chaperons when they remember them.
She saved the lives of the hare an' the goldfinch.
She was pleased at the prospect of meeting him again; mischievously amused at the anticipation of his embarrassment when he found that her chaperons had fled.
There's such a thing as taking two chaperons and letting them play with each other.
Meanwhile, the most assiduous of chaperons was powerless to deflect the precious current of consciousness that flowed between them, striking out sparks at every contact of touch or glance.
Young persons of slender figure prefer light, diaphanous dresses; the chaperons can wear heavy velvet and brocade.
There are non-resident chaperons who are most popular and most useful.
The most successful chaperons are those who love their young charges, respect them, try to be in every way what the mother would have been.
In our crowded ballrooms, chaperons often ask young men if they will be introduced to their charges.
In the month of May the streets are filled with white doves--young girls, all in muslin and lace veils, going with their mothers or chaperons to be confirmed.
The father of the debutante may receive with his wife, but his duty is more to see that all the women have partners, and that the chaperons are taken into supper.
When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs.
Thus two chaperons were disposed of at a stroke, and the young men all said that they hated to assume so much responsibility.
And such delightful chaperons as they were, their business being to promote and not to hinder the intercourse of the sexes!
But," I broke in, "isn't it glorious not to have chaperons at all?
Such chaperons as Mrs. James don't grow on blackberry bushes even in Scotland, where blackberries, if not gooseberries, are the best in the world.
But no plan of chaperons or visiting relatives seemed to satisfy Mr. Fairfield of its availability.
Illustration] A significant sign That her charm was divine Was seen in society, when The chaperons sniffed With their eyebrows alift: "Whatever's got into the men?
When they looked at the bride All the chaperons cried: "She isn't so bad, after all!
The mothers and daughters, or chaperons and charges, walk slowly arm in arm up and down one side the jetty, facing the counter-current of young men and men not young who have not lost interest in feminine attractions.
Girl-chaperons are oftener in sympathy with ardent daughters than with worldly mothers, while even the oldest and most sedate of French bonnes are malleable to other influences than those of their legitimate employers.
The bonnes who thus serve as chaperons are often as young as or even younger than the demoiselles whose virginal modesty they are supposed to protect.
Her anxiety was apparently shared by several other chaperons who stole occasional suspicious glances in the direction of certain of the young braves.
The conversation is carried on in a whisper, so that even these chaperons do not hear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chaperons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
