And, despite the heavy veil, that gave him only a black mask of crape instead of her face, he was satisfied he had surmised correctly.
He wore a close-fitting skull-cap, with a slip of crape in front, and could see whatever occurred.
There was a band of crape on Arthur's hat, and his manner was like one trying to be sorry, while conscious of an inward feeling of resignation, if not content.
Then what does that ass do but put me out agin and lock up the jail and put crape on the door, while he went off to the funeral.
Why does this crape draw up all the hot tears out of the depth of my heart, why do I see behind this woven lattice the eyes open, which are so far from me, and which so move my inmost being to sadness?
While Victor took the dear crape hat into his hand as a compensation for the likeness, and dreamily contemplated it, there sprang forth on the hat wholly new, fresh flowers for his soul.
He thought of the Stamitz concert, and of their sitting side by side, and of the crape hat which veiled the grief of two beloved eyes.
For the crape hat--that was the accident--must indeed come, because it was bespoken.
The horse was covered with a violetcrape embroidered with golden bees.
According to the order for mourning prescribed for the English army, the men had their arms reversed and the officers had crape on their arms, with their swords reversed.
The widows wear over and above, a crape forehead cloth; and, in this solemn weed, go to all the public places of diversion without scruple.
There is not the least bit of linen to be seen; all black crape (sic) instead of it.
When my poor husband died, I got a veil measured three yards, countin' the hem; good crape it was, too.
Did she hab de imp'dence to ask you lend her a crape bunnit?
I've worecrape enough in my time to bury me under, you might say.
One of the first effects of this enlightenment was that the major appeared at meeting the next day without a crape on his hat.
There was a scarlet merino cape, lined with silk of the same color, both a little faded, and a faded crape scarf that had once been gorgeous with red and gold.
Another part was a black crape bonnet with a double frill hanging by it; and the frill rendered it difficult for any one to discern the wearer’s features.
The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams.
Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, and with crape on his hat.
As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape bonnet.
It's not the outside mournin' that counts for anything, missy; it's the crape you wear on your heart.
It's the crape of the heart that counts," he repeated.
A thousand dollar China crape shawl showed all its florid pattern in embroidery, spread on her broad shoulder.
Italian crapecan be dyed to look as nice as that which is new.
Rinse thecrape out in vinegar to clean it; then, to stiffen it, put it in the mixed glue and milk.
You were up in an instant; but that poor lady sitting on the ground in her red crape dress, and looking about her with that piteous face--can I ever forget her?
It had suggested the black veil with the crape border.
For all her spectacles and crape the golden haired stranger was fascinatingly young and pretty.
Jane Ridgeway's second best spectacles covered her mischievous eyes, and a black veil was draped over the small toque and blond hair in such a way that its broad band of crape hid the lower part of her face.
For the first six months the dress should be of crape cloth, or Henrietta cloth covered entirely with crape, collar and cuffs of white crape, a crape bonnet with a long crape veil, and a widow's cap of white crape if preferred.
But no one wearing a heavy crape veil should go to a gay reception, a wedding, or a theatre; the thing is incongruous.
We can only suggest to mourners wearing it that they should pin a small veil of black tulle over the eyes and nose, and throw back the heavy crape as often as possible, for health's sake.
It is a thousand pities that fashion dictates the crape veil, but so it is.
In England a lady of the court wears, for her parent, crape and bombazine (or its equivalent in any lustreless cloth) for three months.
For half-mourning, a bonnet of silk or chip, trimmed with crape and ribbon.
We see many a pale-faced mourner whose quiet mourning-dress tells the story of bereavement without giving us the painful feeling that crape is too thick, or bombazine too heavy, for comfort.
A fine young woman of about twenty-three, dressed handsomely but without much fashion in black crapeand silk, jumped out with a violence that sent her overplumed black hat to a rakish angle.
Uncle Albert, Edwin noticed, had not yet removed the deep band of crape from his top-hat.
I don't want to see none on 'em in their crape bunnits comin' after me.
They put on black crapeover their heads," said the driver mysteriously.
I rummaged over all my old things, and by good luck found an old crape hatband.
She wore a thick crape veil and black cotton gloves.
The tapestry and crape hangings are embroidered with cherry blossoms, its one picture is a sweet spring landscape.
The fishermen and the drunkards, the Windover widows in their crape and calico, the plain, obscure, respectable parishioners, and the girls from the street moved in together beneath the white and scarlet lights.
She wore a chocolate calico dress with red spots on it, and this crape veil.
Now if you feel willing to explain what you mean by a knot of crape on the shutter, I am at your service, madam.
As that eye was directed toward the left wing, and lifted as far as the second row of windows, I could not help asking myself if he had seen the knot of crape which had produced upon me so lugubrious an impression.
XIX A KNOT OF CRAPE I was prepared for some change in the appearance of my young hostesses, but not for so great a one as I saw on entering the dining-room that memorable morning.
The reading of these words over the body which had been laid away under the Flower Parlor was in keeping with the knot of crape on the window-shutter and argued something more than remorse on the part of some one of the Knollys family.
It was the knot of black crapewith which the shutters were tied together.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crape" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
