Helen had always disliked having to ask the Coxes to dinner when her father's fiat compelled her to preside over the dull banquets of certain smartly-dressed women and weary, driven men, whom he assembled at intervals around his board.
He got tired of gazing and wondering, and even began to smile with contempt at the silly fops as they sauntered along, and the gayly-dressed ladies, that flaunted like so many idle butterflies, on the sidewalk.
Nothing to do and nothing to read," growled a nicely-dressed gentleman, as he yawned and stretched himself to manifest his sensation of ennui.
Dressed in black, she was so slim, so discreet, so unobtrusive, so wrapt in darkness, that at first he had not noticed her.
Guersaint was already up and dressed in one of the two little rooms which he had fortunately been able to secure on the third floor of the Hotel of the Apparitions.
He never set foot in a mosque; and only on one occasion, which I shall hereafter mention, dressed himself in the Mahometan costume.
At the outset of the journey to Italy she was such a favourite with Josephine that she dressed like her mistress, ate at table with her, and was in all respects her friend and confidante.
Dressed in the height of fashion, he was a figure so extraordinary that all eyes observed him as he made his way to the tavern.
Dressed for church of a Sunday, he looked as if he had been stored a year in some neglected cellar.
When the guests were all seated round the table and the banquet was about to commence, the three hosts entered, dressed down to the feet in garments of costly crimson silk.
There are seen Swedes and Germans, Polish and Russian Jews, Galicians and Croats mingled together, some well dressed and with overcoats, others in tattered clothes and with a coarse handkerchief in place of a collar.
Everywhere the people are tightly packed, and the visitors from far and near are dressed in their holiday clothes, many-coloured and fine, and decorated with silver ornaments, coral and turquoise.
Dressed in his uniform, wrapped in sailcloth, and with a silk handkerchief round his head, he was interred between stones set on end and covered with a flat slab.
Not only do the soldiers of the large garrison wear uniforms, but civil officials, schoolboys, students, and many others are dressed in special costumes with bright buttons of brass or silver.
Two million three hundred thousand dressed blocks, each measuring 40 cubic feet, were used in the construction of this memorial over a perishable king, and the pyramid is reckoned to be the largest edifice ever built by human hands.
As the afoursaid boy started to run off, a well dressed lookin' man ketched him by the cote coller.
The shop-windows were all brilliantly dressed and lighted.
The next day in the holly-dressed church she seemed a saint wrapt in divine adoration.
Yet after scarcely a moment's delay the door was thrown open, and a neatlydressed parlor-maid answered his summons.
Half-dressed women leered at him over the banisters; shabby men of all ages were slavishly anxious to earn a tip.
She was as quietly dressed as usual, as pale, and her eyes, except for one upward glance, seemed always to be seeking the carpet.
She took a gold purse and a tiny black spaniel from the neatly dressed maid who stood by her side, and lifting her skirts in her other hand, passed through the door which he was holding open.
She was faultlessly dressed in a gown of the latest design, and a picture hat which even he recognized as being something quite apart from the usual efforts of even the Bond Street shopkeepers.
Deane stood, debonair and well-dressed as usual, and with a little bunch of violets in his buttonhole.
It is usually diced or sliced thin, and then cooked and dressed in any desirable way.
After being sliced and chilled, cucumbers are often combined with sliced onions and eaten with vinegar, salt, and pepper, or they are eaten alone or on lettuce, dressed with mayonnaise dressing.
Fresh shell beans are especially appetizing when they are dressed with cream.
If small, tender carrots can be obtained, they will be found to be delicious upon being boiled and then dressedwith butter.
Turnips, both yellow and white, make an excellent dish when dressed with a cream sauce.
When it is to be served as a cooked vegetable, it should be cooked in boiling salted water, as are other vegetables, and then seasoned or dressed in any desirable way.
When they are not used as a salad vegetable, they are merely boiled until tender and then dressed in any desired way.
With this preliminary preparation, they may be dressed in any desirable manner.
If a delicious combination is desired, these two vegetables should be cooked together and then dressed in any desirable way.
I only said what came first to mind when I saw those dainty well-dressed creatures.
I have never seen you dressed except modestly and as is becoming to a young woman," he replied.
He felt refreshed in every way; and after lying awake for an hour, he arose, dressed himself, and left the house.
They had now come to the famous Achilles Statue in Hyde Park, and there they walked for half an hour amidst the showily dressed women on the lawn.
In his case the experience was but a reversion to the primitive, and he dressed with every satisfaction, delighted to put off the shabby old clothes and no less content with his new appearance as a mirror revealed it to him.
An early riser, long accustomed to be up and out when the clock struck six, he dressed himself at once and determined to see something of Warsaw before the Count was about.
The electric cars had already commenced to run and there were many soberly dressed work-people hurrying to the factories.
Dressed in a very dirty white canvas suit, he shuffled rather than walked across the yard, never once looking to the right hand or to the left and apparently oblivious of the presence of a stranger.
An official, well dressed in civilian's clothes, spoke to him this time and with a sufficient knowledge of the English language.
Down below in the restaurant a bevy of smartlydressed women ate and gossiped to the music of a good Hungarian band.
She was dressed in the most perfect Parisian fashion, from the crown of her fur toque to the tips of her little shoes; but she had never learned to speak three words of French correctly.
Mrs. Nevill Tyson hated what was commonplace and loud; and she had to make herself conspicuous in a season when womendressed fortissimo, and a fashionable crowd was like a bed of flowers in June.
Dey was jus' brogans wid brass toes, but us felt powerful dressed up when us got 'em on, 'specially when dey was new and de brass was bright and shiny.
You jus' pulled one of dem slips over your haid and went on 'cause you was done dressed for de whole week, day and night.
Ma allus made me wear clean, fresh clo'es, and go dressed up good all de time so I'd be fittin' to carry de key basket for Ole Miss.
Paul and two Negro men, barefooted and dressed in overalls rolled to their knees, were taking their ease under the largest tree, and two small mulatto children were frolicking about with a kitten.
Gals and boys was dressed in de same way when dey was little chaps.
You have never seen a Nigger and a white man as dressed up as we were on that occasion.
Aunt Harriet was neatly dressed as she had just returned from a trip to Cornelia to see some of her folks.
Before the war started, I took my young master to get married, and we were certainly dressed up.
Suitably to this hot day she was dressed in a little print gown, with a linen sunbonnet, and looked exactly like the most charming of Kate Greenaway's gallery.
It was quite impossible to mistake what that half-circle of pleasant well-dressed folk were staring at, not the picture's neighbours, not his picture itself this moment.
She seemed dressed for her part as Mistress of the Moon, all in white with a riband of silver in her bright hair.
She had dressed herself appropriately in a white linen frock with little rosebud sprigs printed on it, and an immense straw hat with a wreath of rose to embellish it.
She dressed herself quickly in some old boating-costume, went quietly along the passage, and down stairs.
He dressed and went out, and it was in his mind to wrestle with the punt, perhaps, to spring on Joyce a mysteriously-acquired adeptness.
The house maid seemed a little surprised not to find her up and dressed as usual, for Erica generally got through an hour's writing before the nine o'clock breakfast.
Accordingly, one hot summer morning Erica dressed herself carefully, tried to look old and serious, and set off with Tom to the city.
They were all dressedin smoked leather suits, with caps to match.
Then over these poles a skin tent, made by sewing a number of dressed deerskins together, was thrown.
The Indians say that the geese mistake them, when dressed in white, for lumps of snow.
The sword hangs over the shoulder by crimson silk cords and huge tassels[FN#29]: well-dressed men apply the same showy ornaments to their pistols.
I dressed myself, sticking a pistol in my belt, and passing the crimson silk cord of the "Hamail" or pocket Koran over my shoulder, in token of being a pilgrim.
Syria; they dressed him and his companion Abu Bakr in white clothing which, it is said, caused the people of Kuba to pay a mistaken reverence to the latter.
Throughout the East a badly dressed man is a pauper, and, as in England, a pauper-unless he belongs to an order having a right to be poor-is a scoundrel.
FN#19] It is the same rule with the Arab, on the road as at home; the more he is dressed the greater is his respectability.
Having performed the greater ablution, and used the toothstick as directed, and dressed ourselves in white clothes, which the Apostle loved, we were ready to start upon our holy errand.
A well-dressed woman in widow's weeds is kneeling and muttering prayers in front of a grave decorated with flowers.
I wasdressed as a boy, and was taught how to handle a horse, but could have nothing to do with the cows.
But it didn't come to anything just the same-- [JEAN enters, dressedin black frock coat and black derby.
The stove is dressed with bundled branches of birch.
You come to feel as if you were dressed in skins, as if you were living in a cave and eating out of a trough--ugh!
JEAN enters, dressed in livery and carrying a pair of big, spurred riding boots, which he places on the floor in such manner that they remain visible to the spectators.
It is a large-sized tiger, under whose claws lies a prostrate Englishman, dressed pretty much in the fashion of a London City merchant of East India Company times.
It would not at all surprise me if the world which has so long laughed at the Englishwoman's dress should some fine evening glance into one of these modern interiors and feel as if the ladies are among the most agreeably dressed of womankind.
It was a novel experience for Homely to be dressed in a pretty gown; it was equally novel for her to be introduced to a gentleman, much less a lord; and the two novelties together had an almost transforming effect upon her.
One of the oldest forms has on it red Indian girls, dressed like Italian ballet-dancers of a very early period.
The Parisienne had so confidently counted on the chief's visit and intelligence, that not only had she dressed herself for so important an interview--she had dressed her room.
The Baroness looked at herself to see if she were not a blot on all this splendor; but she was well dressed in her velvet gown, with a little cape trimmed with beautiful lace, and her velvet bonnet of the same shade was becoming.
She wore a black velvet gown that looked as if it might at any moment slip off her shoulders, and her hair was dressed with lace and drooping flowers.
Josepha, in white and yellow, was so beautifullydressed for the banquet, that amid all this lavish magnificence she still shone like a rare jewel.
Simply dressed in white cashmere trimmed with blue, her head had been dressed with real flowers by a coiffeur of the old-fashioned school, whose awkward hands had unconsciously given the charm of ineptitude to her fair hair.
On the following morning, Hortense, who had slept with the seal under her pillow, so as to have it close to her all night, dressed very early, and sent to beg her father to join her in the garden as soon as he should be down.
Celestine, however, got up and went to her room, where she dressed to go out.
Linda ignored him in a sharp return of her interest in the big carelessly-dressed man.
He would expect you to be dressed in the morning like it was afternoon and you going out.
Linda was fascinated by the latter, dressed in a soft clinging dull garnet.
VIII In the morning she was dressed and had returned from breakfast before her mother stirred.
He wasdressed in light-gray flannels; a big easy man with a crushing palm, large features and an expression of intolerance.
Joseph strutted in, a small carefully dressed man with a diminutive pointed gray beard and formal curled mustache.
The latter, though, was a rather stout woman who, dressed in frightful lingerie, occupied couches with her arms caught about the neck of a man bending over her.
He was dressed carelessly, improperly for the evening; but she forgave that as the result of indifference.
But eventually it seemed that there was no escape from the circle of brilliantly dressed creatures with ruined faces who congregated in the hotels and whispered and nodded in company until they went severally to bed.
Judith had gone ahead, when Linda was conscious of the scrutiny of a pale well-dressed woman of middle age.
From these indications it is supposed to have been a cook's shop; for the sale, perhaps, both of undressed and dressed provisions, as is indicated in the view.
After death the body was washed and anointed by persons called pollinctores; then laid out on a bier, the feet to the door, to typify its approaching departure, dressed in the best attire which it had formerly owned.
Another vase shows a female juggler dressed in long drawers standing on her hands, and filling with her feet a kantharos from a krater placed in front of her.
It is a common thing to see a workman, dressed in shabby clothes full of dirt, sitting next to a millionaire or a fashionable lady gorgeously clothed.
Undoubtedly the reform was gaining ground and the Chinese would have to be in the future depicted dressed up as a Caucasian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dressed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arrayed; bedecked; clad; disguised; hooded; invested; liveried; mantled; shod; tired; vested
