Twas a right smart good frock once, an' I's gwine to wear it ter-morrer.
When she came in, she threw the frock into my lap with manner so insolent and provoking that I could hardly keep from breaking out upon her and rating her soundly.
Instead of thinking how easily the difficulty of the clean frock for Alice had been gotten over, I began fretting myself because I had not been able to procure a seamstress, although the children were "all in rags and tatters.
He was dressed in highlow boots, worsted stockings, greasy leather small clothes, a shag waistcoat, and a blue frock overall.
I looked at myself, and was shocked at my appearance; my smock-frock was covered with black mud, my clothes were equally disfigured.
You had better change your frock now; I will go with you and fasten it.
I hurried on my frock and a shawl; I withdrew the bolt and opened the door with a trembling hand.
By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.
But it was the way the frock was made, and how it and the hat became her that marked Betty as an object of approval, to the male Passonians at least.
Her frock was black and white, and so was her hat.
At least, her grace of carriage and credibly tailored frock masked any lack of flesh.
Da Souza was gorgeous infrock coat and silk hat, a carnation in his buttonhole, a diamond in his black satin tie, yet he was not altogether happy.
Trent was carelessly dressed in a tweed suit and red tie, his critic wore a silk hat and frock coat, patent-leather boots, and a dark tie of invisible pattern.
Frock coat he read as “frac,” and ordered wedding garments such as he thought suitable, with the addition of a brand-new evening coat.
The four objects dangling from the front of the frock are pewter spoon-bowls.
The trimming of this frock cost, therefore, about $4.
For protection from rain and wet they wear over their other clothes a waterproof hooded frock (Fig.
It was, of course, a frock of the richest white satin, but its tunic and train and veil were of marvelously fine Spanish lace.
So she was not sorry to see Katherine enter in a pretty, simple frock of flowered silk, pale blue in color, and further softened by a good deal of Valenciennes lace and a belt and long sash of white ribbon.
One of them approached, and, as he raised his goggles, Sholmes recognized in him the gentleman in the frock coat that he had seen at the Hungarian restaurant.
One of them took a cigarette from his pocket and approached a gentleman who wore a frock coat and silk hat.
The gentleman in the frock coat and the head-waiter left the house.
The gentleman in the frock coat was an accomplice.
At the same moment the gentleman in the frock coat came out.
Amongst them Sholmes easily recognized the gentleman in the frock coat and he thought one of the other men resembled the head-waiter of the restaurant.
The trunks arrived at once, and Hannah immediately began to unpack, Catherine sitting on the edge of the bed and exclaiming over every new frock as it came out.
I am so pleased to be going as a Herrschaft, and I have a darling newfrock for this and everything.
The making up of the frock afforded many opportunities for practice in neat, strong stitching, combined with beauty.
The frock in the illustration was made from double width serge, and it was found practicable to get the skirt from one-and-a-half widths, the other half serving for the yoke.
On another page are shown some very distinctive effects in this stitch, and in the frock illustrated the stitch is used in conjunction with the Y stitch which is shown and described.
A frock for a two-year old has been used as an example, but it would be quite possible to cut a larger size in a like manner, though it might be necessary to put a false hem of some other material.
I began my home-made bead-making from necessity, because I was unable to find any beads to match a particular frock I very much wanted a string for.
As the frock the girls made on this occasion had sleeves with cuffs, two or three inches deep, the pattern was shortened accordingly, before the material was cut.
The second apron is also Italian, but this one is more suitable for needlework or knitting, when one’s frock is apt to pick up pieces of thread or fluff from the wool.
It certainly enhanced the beauty and value of the frock for which it was made.
It was found that the collar for the frock fitted better when made in two parts and in double material.
Let the trustees be brought," he said in a peremptory way to the two young men in black frock coats, secretaries of some sort, I suppose, who received us.
I got, out of one of our boxes, an old frock coat for Uncle William.
But here in the street, in his faded frock coat and knitted tie, and with his face flushed and his eyes rambling, people seemed to mistake it and thought that his mind was not quite right.
But they were now dressed for the most part in the costume of the Russian Monjik, while some of them appeared in American wideawakes and Kentucky frock coats, or in English stove-pipe hats and morning coats.
Uncle Henry looks so plain and common in his sailor's jersey, and Uncle William in his old frock coat looks faded and shabby and his face always vacant and wondering.
I am a livin' sinner, it's half her frock hitched on to my coat button.
She wore no corsets, but her green frock was of an artful shade to match her brassy hair.
The Sistine Chapel is closed to frock coats, and so is the Opera--and as for evening parties, a man might as well go in a roundabout as in any thing but a dress coat.
Marie slept with it under her pillow and carried it in her frock by day; a sort of shyness prevented her from showing it to Miss Chester, though once she asked her about it.
She was wearing a white frock of some gauzy material, cut rather low, and her soft brown hair curled into little ringlets like a child's on the white nape of her neck.
She still wore the frock she had worn at dinner that night, and was sitting at the window looking out at the moonlight.
She had carried out Feathers' instructions by choosing a white linen frockand a Panama hat, and white shoes and stockings.
Chris strode across to her, tore the littlefrock she was folding from her hands and threw it down on the bed.
She wore a little traveling frock of palest gray, and little gray shoes and stockings, and a wide-brimmed hat with a sweeping feather.
His face darkened--it was the first time in his life he had ever known the slightest desire to kiss any woman, but she had looked so provokingly pretty in her white frock .
She wore her prettiest frock on Sunday, and turned a deaf ear to Mrs. Chester's lamentations that it would be ruined.
Then abruptly she drew the crumpled telegram from her frock and gave it to him.
She would not have minded going off with Chris alone to church in her oldestfrock if it had to come to that.
She had carefully bathed the tear stains from her eyes and powdered her face; she had put on her prettiestfrock and taken great pains with her hair.
She had no evening frock and could not afford to get one for a single occasion, and Fanny was in the same straits.
One was an elderly man, dressed in a smock frock and with a hairy cap on his head.
He was a fellow somewhat above thirty, of the middle size, and wore a dirty white frock coat; his right arm was partly confined by a manacle.
As if struck by a panic, my quondam friends turned round and bolted into the house; the rustic-looking man with the smock-frock and gravelled highlows nearly falling down in his eagerness to get in.
The modern frock in Greenland is very short and has very small flaps (see illustrations in Rink's Tales, etc.
The outer frock is also sometimes worn with the hair in, especially when it is new and the flesh side clean and white.
The rain-frock (silu'na) is made of strips of seal or walrus intestines about 3 inches broad, sewed together edge to edge.
The men of the Siberian Eskimo and sedentary Chukches, as at Plover Bay, wear in summer a loose straight-bottomed frock without a hood, but with a frill of long fur round the neck.
The winter frock is described as having "a square hood without trimmings, but capable of being drawn, like the mouth of a bag, around the face by a string inserted in the edge.
The dress of the Siberian women consists of frock and baggy kneebreeches in one piece, sewed to tightfitting boots reaching to the knees.
N216] The frock worn in Kadiak was hoodless and long, with short sleeves and large armholes beneath these.
The outer frock is not often worn in the iglu, being usually taken off before entering the room, and the under one is generally dispensed with.
Her best frock she had torn, The last time it was worn; Which was very vexatious, you know.
In Germany the educated proletariat is the leaven that sets the mass in fermentation; the dangerous classes there go about, not in blouses, but in frock coats; they begin with the impoverished prince and end in the hungriest littérateur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
