Fancy her wearing chemisesworth three hundred francs apiece, instead of sewing them!
She may be wearing three hundred franc chemises instead of making them.
You are an honest girl,' I said to her, 'and yet you can scarcely earn twenty sous a day making three hundred franc chemises for a kept woman.
Only this very morning he made me carry my shawl and my chemises to the Mont-de-Piete, and that was the money he had for the carriage.
She made little corset covers and chemises of fine but fairly inexpensive lawns, and, with simple flowered designs and perfect laundering, her nightgowns were always sweetly fresh and dainty.
All three women lay with chemises up to their navels, Lady A.
The stays were high and queerly made in those days, the chemises pulled over the top of them like flaps.
But the women, theirchemises and petticoats, and their rooms shocked me more than they used, and kept me chaster than I otherwise might have been.
I entered into the details of the matter; Madame Krause pretended to amuse me by having the linen cut up in my room, in order, as she said, to teach me how many chemises might be cut from a single piece of cloth.
A dozen chemises constituted the whole of my linen, and I had to use my mother's sheets.
He sent me this morning to pawn my shawl and my chemises to pay for that cab.
As she had no longer any clothes, they dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thenardier brats; that is to say, in rags.
I told her how sorry I felt to see her delicate body frayed by so coarse a stuff, and she told me it was of the usual material, and that all the nuns wore chemises of the same kind.
After it was over I put on their chemises and took off their breeches with all the decency imaginable, and after spending a few minutes in the next room they came and sat down on my knee of their own accord.
This packthread must serve you for buckles, and we must take care that there are holes in your shoes and also in your gloves, and as everything must match, as soon as you have put on your chemises you must tear the lace round the neck.
The rents in dresses and chemises disclosed parts of their shoulders, their breasts, and their arms, and their white legs shone through the holes in the stockings.
During the first week her time was wholly taken up, and Pierrette's too, by frocks to order and try on, chemises and petticoats to cut out and have made by a seamstress who went out by the day.
Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck.
Young girls wear cotton chemises and aprons and print dresses, all purchased, not home made.
I ordered six chemises at the shop of one seamstress, six at that of another, gowns, combing cloths, etc.
The wardrobe woman, who had the care of the linen, in her turn brought in a covered basket containing two or three chemises and handkerchiefs.
They shall wear chemises of cloth next the skin, and these they shall not take off even to sleep.
Chemises should be made barely long enough to meet the saddle, or if worn a shade longer they should be fashioned in the form of trunks, extending about midway down the thighs.
An appearance was what she strove for, and one's chemises and nightgowns, however exquisite in themselves, could not very well contribute to one's external appearance.
I told him that I was the mistress of my own chemisesand that I should wear just as many as I pleased.
I wear too many chemisesand send too many things to the wash and employ too expensive a laundress!
She burst out laughing: "I flung all mychemises at his head!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chemises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
