Harry Lessingham tucked his hand under the folds of the orange and white-flowered cloak, and taking the girl affectionately by the elbow, trotted her down the sloping pavement towards Kensington High Street.
His loves seem but as phosphorescent flames That skim the surface, leaving him heart-whole-- All but this deep and all-embracing love That folds within its arms a suffering world.
He dreamed he saw the flag his fathers loved In tatters torn and trailing in the dust, But in its place another glorious flag, Whose silken folds seemed woven thick with gems That as it waved glittered with dazzling light.
Miss Felton, as she stood before her bureau fastening a wide lace collar with the brooch to which Gilbert had referred, and then catching the folds of her India shawl with an inconspicuous pin of Scotch pebbles that blended with the fabric.
The outer wrapping was a well-worn buffalo-robe, and from between its folds a small, white-mittened hand was visible.
Slipping the chain over her head, she let the locket hang half veiled among the foldsof drapery that crossed her bosom.
Look at this," and bending toward him, she held out the locket on its chain that had lain concealed in the folds of her waist, pressing the spring that opened it as she did so.
And as she stood there, with eyes uplifted as in mute prayer, and fervently kissed the silken folds of the flag, Hugh wished that his station in life had been that of an American flag.
Her head sank upon her breast, that gleamed with diamonds; she looked old and infirm, and her form seemed bent and shrunken in the stiff folds of her yellow moire dress.
Hitherto the young girl had stood motionless, following her sister's words with a dawning comprehension of their meaning, as if some dangerous serpent were slowly uncoiling its slimy folds in her presence.
Her face looked like a fresh peach-blossom amid the folds of lace.
Her fingers laid restless folds in a piece of paper she took up, and her father after his greeting went on with the accounts.
We stood still, closed our eyes, and buried our faces in the folds of our garments.
Princess Julia has hidden her head in the folds of her veil.
The result was surprising, for the snake being instantly killed the folds uncoiled and the ship shot upward, only, instead of rising on an even keel, the bow pointed toward the sky, while the stern was still fast to the earth.
The stranger folds his arms and inclines his head to one side, so as to expose his cheek, upon which the magician deals a terrible blow, sometimes felling him to the ground.
When a woman dies in childbed in the island of Salsette, they put a nail or other piece of iron in the folds of her dress; this is done especially if the child survives her.
If bed sacks are used, they will be folded in three folds and the bedding placed on top.
One squad strikes and folds the officers' tents and brings them to the kitchen.
This folds the right side of the tent on itself, with the crease in the middle and under the front side of tent.
Place the hood in the square iron which has been folded downward toward the bottom of the tent, and continue to fold around the square iron as a core, pressing all folds down flat and smooth and parallel with the bottom of the tent.
At that moment he felt something hard in the folds of his tunic, and pressing on his heart.
Meanwhile the girl drew from the folds of her gown three small bottles, filled with three different kinds of water, which she had brought from the sea.
Her cheeks hang gray in waxen folds Wherein there stirs no blood at all.
Eye folds are only occasional and eye-opening height is usually moderate.
He cast a look at the clouds coming up from the South-west in folds of grey and silver.
He may well praise the countess, papa,' said Cecilia, while they were looking back at the castle and the moveless flag that hung in folds by the mast above it.
If, on the other hand, these folds unite into a rounded projection the scrotum is formed, the little tubercle above becomes the penis and hence the male sex.
The foldsbegin to grow about the egg, partially enclosing it, and shutting it off from the general cavity of the womb.
If, on the other hand, these folds unite into a rounded projection, the scrotum is formed, the little tubercle above becomes the penis, and hence the male sex.
Every preparation is speedily made, and the fertilized egg finds lodgment in the thin, delicate folds of the membrane in the upper central portion or dome of the womb.
And as she drew it from beneath the folds of the bright-coloured silken scarf that girt her waist, and held it aloft, her words were greeted by loud, ringing cheers.
In the moonlight his eyes had a fierce glitter in them and his bare brown arms were thrust through the folds of his burnouse as he gesticulated to emphasise his words.
One appeared to have been disarranged, for it did not hang in such graceful folds as the other, and this attracted my attention.
I cried, amazed, jumping to my feet and grasping the rough brown hand that shot from between the folds of the burnouse.
Crouching at his feet, the wet folds of her widow's shroud clung to every curve of her supple body.
A glimmer of gray dawn--for it had taken time to persuade Aunt Rosebody to action--showed faintly the courtesan's face set in the white folds of the burka she had thrown upward for more air.
As he spoke his fingers were busy about his neck, and Atma seeing him stoop over the sleeper, saw also that he left something in the ghostly half-seen folds of the white quilt.
The foldsof her star-set skirts clung round her closely, the saffron, pearl-sewn veil hardly hid her beauty of strong supple curves.
He placed a chair for her, and drew another forward from where it was half hidden behind the folds of the surplice but lately hung upon its proper peg, and, astonished at himself waited till Hazel had seated herself before following suit.
Nearly the whole vehicle was filled up by the wavy folds of her large flower-patterned gray silk dress.
A still rougher push started the two folds of the sash, which opened like a door, and the gap showed a girl, red with the exertion she had to make and shaking her dusty hands.
He again turned his piercing glance upon the countenance of Jaschinsky; he now perceived the rose-colored letter, which lay in the folds of that one from Colonel Trenck, and he immediately understood the words of the count.
A breathless silence reigned throughout the vast crowd; every eye was fixed upon the stage; and now, with a stately step and a Roman toga falling in artistic folds from his shoulders, Eckhof as Cato stood before them.
The ovule is usually surrounded by one integument, which projects beyond the tip of the nucellus as a wide-open lobed funnel, which at the time of pollination folds inwards, and so assists in bringing the pollen-grains on to the nucellus.
Legend says that during a siege the bullets fired into the town were caught by her in the folds of her dress.
Pelvic cellulitis (parametritis) signifies the inflammation of the connective tissue between the folds of the broad ligament (mesometrium).
In India the cummerbund consists of many folds of muslin or bright-coloured cloth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
