It is true she had drawn thedimity curtains--all but a couple of inches.
There the blinds flew open at her touch and disclosed an open window with a pair of the ever-recurring dimity curtains tied back with blue ribbons.
There was a wide dimity ruffle all around the top, and a dimityvalance below, and long dimity curtains all around.
The day was warm, and the dimity curtains, the feather bed, and the night-cap all combined to stifle a little girl who was fond of fresh air.
Dimity is one yard wide; and ⅞ of a yard is enough.
It can be made of silk or of dimity at 12½-cents a yard, and need not then cost more than 15 cents.
She was as good as her word, and hid us behind a great pile of clean dimity curtains in the linen closet, where we remained snugly packed away for some time.
There were actually two or three geraniums in the window, showing cheerful scarlet between the short, white dimity curtains.
Catching the eye of a woman who was peering over her short white dimity blind, he beckoned to her authoritatively.
It was Patty, in a striped dimity gown with the sleeves rolled up, and her face fairly shone with joy as I leaped from my horse and took her hands.
Indeed, she was at her prettiest and best in the dimity frock, with the sleeves rolled up.
Blue dimity dresses and shining slippers danced before her wakeful eyes, and a white ribbon to tie back her hair.
She had quite forgotten the pleasant game with Frederick, the book that she was to write for Aunt Martha, and even the delightful fact that she was sewing on the prettydimity dress, and had a new thimble of shining steel.
Anne's dark head began to nod, the pretty dimity slipped from her fingers to the floor, and the new thimble fell off and rolled under the table.
The clerk was waiting patiently, and Mrs. Freeman now begged his pardon for so long delaying her purchases, and ordered enough dimity for Anne's dress.
Rose, looking in at the chamber door, smiled to herself, tiptoed gently in and picked up the dimity dress and carried it to her own room, where Millicent was having her afternoon nap on her sister's bed.
I hope you will never see those dimity curtains anywhere but in your mind's eye," said Marian.
I can see it, now, in my mind's eye, with dimity curtains at the windows, and roses growing over the porch.
The distinction between fustian and dimity seems to be, that the former designates a common tweeled cotton cloth of a stout fabric, which receives no ornament in the loom, but is most frequently dyed after being woven.
But as the dimity is a continued stripe from the beginning to the end of the web, only five treddles are required to move ten leaves.
The analogy subsisting between striped dimity and dornock, is so great, that before noticing the plan for fancy dimity, it may be proper to allude to the dornock, the plan of which is represented by fig.
The draught here is reversed, as in the dimity plan, and the treading is also to be reversed, after arriving at 6, to complete the diamond.
Opal began to get out her lovely brushes and toilet paraphernalia and Lynn let down her wonderful golden mane and began to brush it, looking exquisite in a little blue dimity kimona delicately edged with' valenciennes.
When Charles Verity, quietly crossing the room, sat down in an easy chair, so placed at the head of the half-tester bed as to be screened from it by the dimity curtains, she sighed and slightly shifted her position.
Leaving the foot of the bed, he went and sat down in the arm-chair, where the dimity curtain screened Damaris from his, and him from Damaris' sight.
In her tucked white dimity and ankle-ties, her pink sunbonnet and her tiny, frilled parasol, she was as much out of place in the aesthetic town as whipped cream on a grapefruit.
And now she lights the way for Captain Murray's man Joe, trudging home from the village with the mail; and now she peers in through the dimity curtains of Nan's pretty room, making it bright as the day.
Fresh dimity curtains had been tacked up in the room over the kitchen, and there was a new bowl and pitcher on the wash-stand, and some red-bordered towels that were very beautiful in Nan's eyes.
To-night, while Rebecca lay sobbing in her little bedroom, the mother knitted assiduously until nearly midnight upon a wide linen lace with which to trim dimity curtains for the daughter's bridal bedstead.
The Romance that Was Waking in the night she said again, "I love him to distraction," and slipping under the dimity curtains of the bed, sought his letter where she had left it on the bureau.
The dimity curtains of the bed fluttered softly in the breeze that blew through the open window, and in his nostrils there was the scent of the single rose standing in a glass vase upon the table.
On her toilet-table, the three uncouth legs of which were now hidden by a neat dimity cover, there always stood a broken tumbler with a supply of flowers.
Ample curtains of white dimity clothed the three windows, and lightly draped the bed.
At five o'clock Wasserman Avenue emerged in dainty dimity and silk sewing-bags.
Miss Shongut's face was suddenly buried in the neat lace yoke of her mother's dimity blouse, and her arms crept up about her neck.
It was a very plain room with simple maple furniture, neatly arranged; a brown woolen carpet on the floor; white dimity curtains at the window; and a small coal fire in the grate.
Miss Prince, having made a final round of inspection just after tea, had ascertained that the last of the white dimity curtains and coverings were in their places upstairs in the bedrooms, and her love of order was satisfied.
She wondered at the great bedsteads with their high posts and dimity hangings, and at the carpets, and the worthy Marilla watched her for a moment as she stood on the threshold of the doctor's own room.
How different from the pretty little chamber in which Charles used to sleep, with the nice white dimity window-curtains and hangings and mahogany tent-bed, with such comfortable bedding and handsome white counterpane!
Yes, nice clothes; but sad-colored, for the riding-cloak that hung over her white dimity frock was black.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dimity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
