There is a delightful piquancy in the experiences and trials of a young English girl who studies painting in Paris.
The experiences of an orphan girl who in infancy is left by her father--an officer in India--to the care of an elderly aunt residing near Paris.
Even the hero is outwardly distinguished only by a melancholy expression--a slight of which no school-girl "authoress" would have been guilty.
For I know what to think when a young girl shivers by a warm hearth and complains of lonesomeness at her mother's side.
The former has all the advantage of a pretty girl over a plain one; it is given an instantaneous chance to prove itself worth while.
The book goes on to state further that the family consisted of the father and mother, five children--the eldest a girl of thirteen--and two hired men.
Probably any little girl desiring to exchange pressed flowers with Genevieve would be equally well pleased to do so with any other little girl of California or other portions of the far West.
Every few minutes the fat-cheeked servant-girl brings in a fresh steaming kettleful to keep it hot.
This little California girl has not yet favored us with her address, but she has no doubt sent it to some among the many inquirers for her.
On one occasion, having found Zeus in great distress because the Queen had determined to kill Io, a lovely young girl of whom the King was very fond, he declared that he alone would save her.
We took pains to see that the English girlreceived every attention, the Marquis glowering savagely upon us when we passed a dish to the governess rather than to his wife.
They treated the company with haughty indifference, and ignored the poor English girl as though she were socially altogether out of their sphere.
This morning I stood looking down upon the deck next below me, watching a company of thirty or forty little boys aged from ten to twelve and fourteen years, one little girl among them, seemingly sister to one of the younger boys.
The head of the household was the daughter Madeleine, a girl of fourteen years, the other members of the family in the fort being two brothers of Madeleine, who were mere lads, both younger than herself.
A Huron girl entered a cabin of an Iroquois chief as his wife.
She too was accepted for Montreal, and Mademoiselle Mance not only would have companions but she would find in the young girl a faithful assistant to nurse the sick at Ville Marie.
To understand fully the courage of this girl of fourteen, it must be remembered that these words were addressed to mere lads, twelve and ten years of age respectively.
In addition a young and virtuous girl of Dieppe, seized with a sudden desire to join the expedition, had forced her way on to the ship, against all opposition.
Still she says that there is a great desire to educate the French girls and "they learn to read and write, to say their prayers, learn Christian morals and all that a girl ought to know.
She and the man made a dash for the fort, and seeing that they could not overtake her, the Iroquois fired at the fleeting girl and man, but missed both.
In the first they do not receive every girl that offers herself; for their parents must pay about five hundred écus, or crowns, for them.
A girl of eighteen is reckoned very poorly off, if she cannot enumerate at least twenty lovers.
The orderlies gazed in bewilderment at the pretty vision of the girl in a picture hat, occupying the chair of their venerated head of department.
When he spoke once more he turned his head toward the girl and looked into her eyes.
The young men rose from their seats on the bastion, and raised their hats as the girl passed.
Meanwhile on this same perilous journey inland, he had met a young Spanish girl named Isabella Cueva, who subsequently appealed to him for protection, and whom, a few months later, he married.
I want to buy that bracelet for 'the girl I left behind me,' if the price isn't too high.
One day a boy and one day a girl will go down from these fields, and out into the thoroughways of life.
It is not to be expected that we can overcome this fascination and safeguard the country boy and girl merely by introducing more showy or active enterprises into the open country.
The best I could hope to accomplish was to divert the thing from the girl to myself and then to place as many bullets as possible in it before it reached and mauled me into insensibility and death.
Even as he faced me a little cry from the girlcarried my eyes beyond the brute to her face.
He said that you had sent him ahead with it, asking him to deliver it and return to Sari where you would await him, bringing the girl with him.
Then, from a little doorway in the opposite end of the structure, a girl was led into the arena.
It was that of a young girl in whose hair was a gorgeous bloom plucked from some flowering tree of the forest.
And so, armed with my credentials and my small arsenal, I set out alone upon my quest for the dearest girl in this world or yours.
Yet play not with the envious fates, lest they grow jealous of Arzemia's bliss, who would no heaven take for what is here on earth," cried the girl appealingly.
They talked him over, and the freckled girl discovered there was something "wistful" in his manner.
Mrs. Kipps is the same bright and healthy little girl woman you saw in the marsh; not an inch has been added to her stature in all my voluminous narrative.
The freckled girl looked up and regarded Miss Walshingham.
The two girls, and the freckled girl in particular, tried to "stir him up" to some effort to do his imputed potentialities justice.
The girl in the ribbons was handing Mrs. Walshingham her change.
It was, as the freckled girl pointed out to Helen Walshingham, an "interesting" face, and that aspect of him which presented chiefly erratic hair and glowing ears ceased to prevail.
There appeared along by the churchyard wall a girl in a short frock, brown-haired, quick-coloured, and with dark blue eyes.
The end began practically in the middle of the last class, when the freckled girl broached the topic of terminations.
You've cut your wrist," said one of the girl friends, standing up and pointing.
And one day the girlwith the freckles smote him to the heart.
You are wonderful," said the freckled girl to Miss Walshingham, apropos of nothing, as they went on their way home together.
His costume, for example, began to interest him more; he began to realise himself as a visible object, to find an interest in the costume-room mirrors and the eyes of the girl apprentices.
In a little while his clipped, defective accent had become less perceptible to their ears, and they began to realise, as the girl with the freckles had long since realised, that there were passable aspects of Kipps.
He was interested for a space by a girl and groom on horseback, and then he came back to his personal preoccupations.
As this girl will have an important place in reciting this history, it may be well to describe her.
In reading the books a girl becomes acquainted with many of the entertaining features of handcraft, elements of cooking, also of swimming, boating and similar pastimes.
Fascinating descriptions of the travels and amusing experiences of our young friends are combined with a fund of information relating their accomplishment of things every girl wishes to know.
Cinda told one of her girl friends, and it frightened her so that she told Uraso.
She turned to her girl friends and besought them to intercede for the outlaw.
Eb, I believe if you were single any girl might well suspect you of being a flirt," said Betty.
A girl like Dodo or Gert is my size, but I'd be a swell dub trying to line up alongside of you, now wouldn't I?
I tell you, Mrs. Shongut, such a pretty girl and such a fine-looking boy you can be proud of.
That's what she needs yet on top of his heart trouble and her girl running round with Sollie Spitz; and, from what she don't say, I can see that boy causes her enough worry with his wild ways.
A girl can lose her luck sometimes before she loses her figure.
It ain't no cinch for a girl to keep her health down here, even when she does live along decent like me, eating regular and sleeping regular, and spending quiet evenings in the room, washing out and mending and pressing and all.
Look at Jeannette Bamberger, over on Kingston; every night when me and Mr. Lissman used to walk past last summer, right on her grand front porch that girl sat alone, like she was glued.
When I get to likin' a little girl there ain't nothing she 'ain't got a right to.
I been shifting for myself ever since I was cash-girl down at Tracy's, and I ain't going to begin being bossed now.
Aw, Mrs. Blondheim, can't a girl have a good time with a fellow without gettin' serious?
And suddenly she realized that she was not the Girl in her Letters at all, and that he must be bored and disappointed.
Oh, why had she not the pale sunshiny hair of the American girl opposite her at table?
They both sprang to their feet as the strangers entered, and the elfish child pushed a broken chair in a sullen manner towards Mr. Calton, while the other girl shuffled into a far corner of the room, and crouched down there like a dog.
Calton turned, and looked at the girl in some surprise.
Now," went on the lawyer, "I want to find out who the girl that brought the letter is!
What on earth were you questioning that girl about?
A trouble which would pass lightly over a man, leaves an indelible mark on a woman, both physically and mentally, and the terrible episode of Whyte's murder had changed Madge from a bright and merry girl into a grave and beautiful woman.
That my ferret yonder will do his part completely; that I shall set all your uncle's doctrine at nought, and thus lend myself to this wild intrigue, till the girl is put into your arms.
Upon the discovery of me, fear, indignation, and resolution, agitated the whole frame of the sweet girl by turns.
Bless fortune, Gayville, that has brought the fidelity of your friend and your girl to the test at the same time.
One of Raphael's most beautiful Virgins was modeled from a beautiful flower-girl whom he loved, "La Belle Jardinire.
The beautiful girl was very frequently in a little garden adjoining the house, where, the wall not being very high, it was easy to see her from the outside.
Lucretia Borgia died, and her husband having never loved her, fell at once in love with a girlof a lower class, who was very good and worthy to be loved.
Rembrandt could have been nothing but what was delightful and good, since he was loved by so charming a girl as Saskia.
The girl became demented--at least she had spells of madness.
The girl seems on the point of springing into motion.
This chap is an old fop, bedecked in lilac satin, while the bride is a dainty young woman, without much interest in her husband, for she is fingering her beautiful fan and gossiping with one of her girl friends.
A little girl was born to the artist, named Cornelia, after Rembrandt's mother, and he was again very happy.
JOHN The little girl behind Jesus is supposed to represent his future bride, the Christian Church.
She believed he had forgotten her, and her stepmother, who had taken the letters, persuaded the girl to engage herself to another.
There are gleams of gold and silver, moonlight coloured reflections, fiery lights; personages which, like the girl with blond tresses, seem to shine by a light of their own.
I'm going to pair you up with the cub, and tickle the Girl to death.
The Girl I said was an angel, and 'd love you to death, and all that?
He could see nothing, but he could hear the voices of the girl and her companion in low and earnest conversation.
But the girl merely smiled softly to herself in answer, as she watched Paul's straight back receding down the platform.
And he looked lovingly at the charming girl beside him.
There was some bustle about the door of the inn, and then he saw the fat landlady bowing and scraping on the white doorstep, and out of the shadows into the sunshine stepped the girl he had come to find.
Not for such a man as Boris was the girl with the calm yet, at the same time, troubled eyes, that had looked out from the picture.
Paul stood still gazing mutely at the girl and holding out the jewels towards her.
The girl passed into the cathedral, the man following closely on her heels.
The photograph revealed the features of a girl with an astonishingly quiet face.
What good do you think it would do me to be tied to a girl like that?
The girl has finished taking off her stockings, and turned her bare toes to the flames.
The girl says nothing, but looks at him with dark eyes.
A girlwith dark eyes and hair all wild, leaps out from the crowd and shakes her fist at him.
By the light of the lamp there can be seen a young girl in dark clothes, huddled in a shawl to which the snow is clinging.
The Girlgets up lingeringly, loth to leave the warmth.
You were boy and girl together, and if not brother and sister in your intimacy, at least like cousins.
There was a low groan, and then a terrible cry; and as Glyddyr mentally pictured the scene within, of the doctor dressing the injuries, he turned to the trembling girl beside him.
It was for this part of the garden that Chris Lisle aimed, with every step of the way bringing up old remembrances of boy andgirl life, and the hours he had spent in the grounds with Claude.
I felt it better not to go near the house while the poor girl is in so much trouble.
And she's not the girl to flirt and play with any one.
I had to consider what I should do--loaf about through drawing-rooms as a beggarly aristocrat, always in debt till I could cajole a rich girl into making me her poodle; or take off my coat and go to work like a man.
You think too much of sport; but you'll weary of that, and your whole thoughts will be of the best and truest girl that ever lived.
Yes, at once," said Claude; and both thought how she had seemed to change during the past few weeks, from the slight girl into the dignified woman.
A girlwho says snap the moment you say snip, isn't worth having.
He had heard much of the courage shown by the women in the great Civil War in his own country, and this maid of France was proving anew that a girlcould be as brave as a man.
That, too, I saw, and while I do not wish for the triumph of France it was thrilling to see but one and a girl defying so many strong men.
But that was an interesting story about the prince and the girl whom he brought with him, who might be either a relative or a captive.
If girl beautiful and noble as Mademoiselle Julie Lannes looked at me as she has looked at you I'd break down walls and run gantlets to reach her.
John saw after a while that Julie was growing sleepy, and truly a slender girl who had been through so much in one day had a right to rest.
A girlwith a face like that should never feel the touch of a bullet or a rope.
The barrier of race that had been becoming more slender all the time melted quite away, and they were boy and girl looking into each other's eyes across a narrow table.
The salad now being complete she served it herself, and as she did so she relaxed still further, murmuring that they were just boy and girl together, but that they were very handsome.
Mademoiselle Julie Lannes, though a young girl but yet, promises to become the most beautiful woman in Europe, and beauty carries with it many privileges.
They were young, handsome, attractive, men of the world, men whom any girl might love but she did not love any of them.
John saw that the girl had become a woman, matured by hardship and danger, and she looked more beautiful than ever to him that morning.
The Frenchman, too, would lean forward to speak when the girl to whom he was speaking was as lovely as her Mademoiselle Julie.
Truly a girl in her position was entitled to at least an hour if she wanted it.
The shell that encloses a young French girl had been broken by the hammer of war and she had stepped forth, a woman with a thinking and reasoning mind of uncommon power.
The invisible currents were passing between the girl on the terrace who was treated like a princess and the young peasant who walked the horses in the road.
A girl of about seventeen or eighteen accompanied him to the gate, and left him there with a merry wave of her hand, and he strode on alone, his hands in his trousers pockets and a soft felt hat on the back of his head.
But whatever our bad or good fortune may have been, it is not to be supposed for a moment that any of us enjoy such an enchanting revelation as comes to a young girl who, by nature's kind freak, has been made beautiful.
You won't suppose I feel it less, because it's my fault--and my poor girlhas to suffer for it.
They hooted Kilshaw and cheered Medland, and yelled like mad when a dashed pretty girl drove up in a pony-cart and carried him off.
The crowd slowly parted, and down the middle of the road, amid the raising of hats and pretty rough compliments, a young girl came walking swiftly and proudly, with a smile on her lips.
Or had she committed the sin unpardonable to a girl such as she was?
You know the sort of girl she is," his wife went on.
His daughter, a very handsome girl of seventeen, lived with an aunt at Severe.
This incestuous commerce is so little concealed that the girl does the honours of the grand vicar's house, and, with naivete enough, tells the guests and visitors of her happiness in having succeeded her mother.
Unshaded smites the summer sun, Unchecked the winter blast; The school-girl learns the place to shun, With glances backward cast.
The boy with whip and top and drum, The girl with hoop and doll, And men with lands and houses, ask The question of Poor Poll.
Are these the rocks whose mosses knew The trail of thy light gown, Where boy and girl sat down?
He is with an Ottawa girl," he said sadly; "a girl the Indians call Singing Arrow for her wit and her laughter.
You asked me about Onanguisseé so I infer that you will stop at the islands at the mouth of La Baye, and I shall send the Indian girl directly there.
My thought was of decoy and ambush, which was no credit to me, for this girl had been faithful before.
The guards, relieved from immediate anxiety of a riot, leaned listlessly on their muskets, the Ottawas would not interfere with a girl of their own tribe, and Pemaou could not watch all quarters at once.
She was looking at the Indian girl, and the Indian girl at her.
I cannot blind myself with dreams as a girl might, and I understand fully the significance of what you are doing.
I saw her steal a glance at me as a girl might at her lover, and there was a strange, fierce pride in her look.
I shall suggest to Starling that he hug the coast line, and search each bay, and if he listens to me, the girl should reach you well in advance.
I rushed the canoes to the shore, and helped the Indian girl to alight as I would have helped any woman.
There were unexpected ridges of principle in the general slough of his makeup and perhaps the Indian girl was resting on one of them.
I say on one side, for his blood was mixed; his father had married a vagrant, a half-gypsy Irish girl who begged among the villages.
Madame," I said, "here is the Indian girl who befriended you when you were a prisoner.
I had come to think her gracious by nature, and she would treat thisgirl with courtesy, but she was a great lady while Singing Arrow was a squaw, and she would remember it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
