She let her chemise slip downwards with a calm and beneficent grace.
Take Fagette; she won't let even women see her undress; when she puts a clean chemise on she holds the old one between her teeth.
For once the chemise disappeared the King must be held guilty until further discovery.
She then recounted to Fandor her discovery of the chemisebelonging to the Marquis de Sérac.
She had probably arranged to have them found among somebody else's things and thus to throw suspicion from herself, just as she had attempted to leave the famous chemise in the Marquis de Sérac's laundry.
After telling him the history of the chemise fallen from the Marquis de Sérac's laundry, she had repeated all the details of her interview with the King and the advice he had given her.
After picking up this chemise I was about to give it over to Mme.
Now we get the further evidence of the chemise found by you quite by chance .
I don't want a recurrence of what happened the other day when some one entered my apartment and left a chemisebelonging to the murderer among my laundry.
Without further words, Juve and the young girl drove to Rue de Monceau to examine the chemise which she had found that morning.
His Majesty explicitly accuses a woman, the woman to whom that chemise belonged--of having killed Susy d'Orsel.
And besides, the chemise I found was made of coarse linen, and would not certainly be worn by that sort of woman.
The men wore a species of shirt above short breeches, while the women were dressed in petticoats, above which was an armless chemise known as the typoi.
Madam," said I to the mother, "the chemise cannot look white beside your daughter's whiter skin.
I have learnt how to change my chemise with decency, and so as not to shew anything I might not shew a man.
I was not disappointed, for in five minutes back she came, clad in her chemise and walking on tip-toe.
You know you would not let me change your chemise even if I were a dwarf.
The candle being lit, Soetkin looked at Nele and saw the girl's chemise torn at the shoulder and on her forehead, her cheek, and her neck bloody scratches such as might be made by fingernails.
Why is thy chemise torn at the shoulder and the back?
There was nothing surprising in their not having chemises, for the chemise is a scarce article in Spain, but the idea of pleasing God by wearing a Capuchin's habit struck me as extremely odd.
Nina was walking in the garden with her companion, both of them being very lightly clad; indeed, Nina had only her chemise and a light petticoat.
I called her Zaira, and she got into the carriage and returned with me to St. Petersburg in her coarse clothes, without a chemise of any kind.
But this visible darkness did not prevent me from remarking that the countess was wrapped up in an old tattered gown, and that her chemise did not shine by its cleanliness.
She leaned over towards the table, and exposed almost everything I was longing for, and, turning slowly round, she handed me the chemise which I could hardly hold, trembling all over with fearful excitement.
My sweetheart laughed, and Sara, having contrived in the combat to rid herself of her chemise and the coverlet, displayed herself to me without any veil, while at the same time she shewed me all the beauties of my sweetheart.
She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the time the rain had made her clothes cling to her body she looked more than naked, but she did not evince any confusion.
I saw Leah enter my room in her chemise and a light petticoat.
They wear the Capuchin habit out of devotion, and you would not find a chemise on one of them.
I noticed that she was now dressed with the utmost decency, while half an hour before she had only her chemise and petticoat her neck being perfectly bare.
Her frailchemise and dear little drawers were torn and moist, and clung transparently about her, and all her body was nervous and responsive.
Bare-footed, in a bright chemise and one-third of his father's trousers.
The prim Hargreaves was as much taken aback by this suggestion as her colleague Hopkins had been taken aback by Jasmine's attempt to borrow a chemise on the evening of her arrival.
If it happened that the chemise was unstained, tears and lamentations took the place of rejoicing, abuse and insults were heaped upon the bride, and her husband was at liberty to repudiate her.
Just as Aksinya went in Lipa took the former's chemise out of the heap and put it in the trough, and was just stretching out her hand to a big ladle of boiling water which was standing on the table.
Attire consisted of a chemise worn beneath a corset of silk camlet, a hood of silk, and above this a cotte in silver tissue embroidered in gold.
He describes it as being a bodice cut down the front and displaying in the intervals left by the lacings, very wide apart, a transparent tissue of the chemise elaborately pleated and embroidered in gold and silver.
Clothes became so gauze-like, and receded to such an extent from the limbs, that for a time the chemisewas discarded as an awkward and antiquated garment.
No notice, even, is taken of the guest, and in the light one garment is taken off after another, even the chemise is hung on the hook.
Amongst the rich they avoid going about in the presence of these in the chemise alone.
The under garment, very much en evidence, is a short chemiseof tinselled silk gauze, or gold-embroidered muslin so transparent as to leave nothing to the imagination.
A chemise of spangled gauze, and a pale blue gold-embroidered zouave jacket completed a costume which is dress, not clothing.
The chemise reached only to her knees, leaving exposed a pair of sadly emaciated legs.
She was in her chemise only, and it had slipped from one thin shoulder; and her feet were bare.
A woman had her chemise scorched by the fire of heaven, while her dress and petticoats were spared.
Her little corset was unsewn and herchemise burnt.
She had taken off her smart silk dress, and was in her chemise and petticoat, arms and feet bare, and waist girdled with a sash into which she had stuck her revolver.
Even with this relief, when the nuns put on the flannel chemise on September 14th, they suffer from fever for three or four days.
The chemise seams are joined in the same way as those of the night-gown, and narrow hems are placed round the neck and armhole edges, a little wider hem being put round the bottom of the chemise.
And Madame Vardeine would have rushed into the arms of the young men; but they were cruel enough to shrink from the embraces of that lady in chemise and camisole, who at that moment concealed none of her charms.
I could see the lovely chemise mother embroidered lying on top of a pile of bedding, and over and over Sally had said that every stitch in the wedding gown must be taken by hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chemise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
