It is the work of some of these women to gather in all the poor, neglected girls they can find.
I told Mrs. Herrick and the girls I would meet them at the tent this evening.
As Bethany walked slowly toward the business portion of the town, several groups of girls passed her, evidently on their way to work, from the few words she overheard in passing.
Both girls laughed, and then the lively chatter was drowned by the jarring rumble of the train as it puffed slowly out of the depot.
Mrs. Herrick is with the girls now, and the major will join them next week.
But the next moment the smile left his lips, as an exclamation of one of the girls was carried back to him.
She had remembered that Belle Romney had said to her one day, as they drove past a great factory where the girls were swarming out at noon: "Do you know, Bethany dear, I would rather lie down and die than have to work in such a place.
According to The Somerset and Wilts Journal the songs sung by the boys and girls of the Radstock National Schools on Empire Day included "Raise the Flagon High.
Because, help him I must; he has not much idea of that sort of thing; he has never had much of an eye for girls or women.
Dina: Well, I must tell you that I am not like the other younggirls here.
The girls were especially apt at learning, and they endeavoured to imitate the French girls, for whom they appeared to have great love.
They declared that they knew nothing whatever of the crime, and to show that they were not responsible they offered three young girls to Champlain to be educated.
The fort was ready for habitation at the commencement of the year 1629, and Champlain took up his residence there at this date, with two young Indian girls whom he had adopted as his children.
The chapel was used as a classroom, and both the boys and girls made good progress.
The women and girls were dressed like men, except that they had their robes, which extended to the knee, girt about them.
Yes, in her own sitting-room--the room we used as a schoolroom when the girlswere at home.
The majority of girlshave a desire to shine beyond their own sphere; and the attempt, alas!
Girls in their teens have strange caprices, and that was mine.
Many girls marry just as servants change their places--in order "to better themselves;" and alas!
The father who had never in the least won his children's affection, left the room, leaving the three girls gazing at each other.
Yes, I can do what I please; but I can't see, even if mother is ill, why four girlsshould be kept to wait on her.
The girls had decided that they would send Marcia to Coventry.
Marcia did pray, while the three girlsclustered round her and joined their sobs to her earnest petitions.
Marcia naturally acceded to this delightful proposition, and the girls were soon driving rapidly over the country roads.
She had a kind of vague hope that the girls would not open the telegram.
Do sit opposite to me where I can watch your face, and tell me about your school, exactly what you did, what the girls were like; what the head mistress was like, and what the town of Frankfort is like.
Didn't you say, mother, and didn't you hear father say that when Marcia came home, we threegirls would have a fine time of freedom?
That night as the three girls retired to bed, in the large and luxurious room set aside for their use at Court Prospect, they could not help expressing some very bitter remarks.
I always have; but I don't think it right for a girl to thrust herself on other girls uninvited.
The girls disappeared out of a low French window, and paced slowly up the shrubbery at Court Prospect.
The train stopped and the two girls alighted on the platform.
Girls like Edith Hastings do not die easily," was Arthur's only comment, and Victor half wished he had kept his own counsel and never attempted to meddle in a love affair.
Engaged girls always need it, I guess, and Victor is so mean, he says all sorts of hateful things about my marrying my father, and all that.
If Clare and I were either to die or marry you would be left without a Dulcinea at all, with the exception of the sixscore new objects for idolatry you may have found among the pretty girls in Florence.
When us three meet, we shall be able to ice the wine by placing it between us; that will be nice, as the girls say.
Florence is very gay, and there are many pretty girls here, and balls every night.
In populous towns there are Kindergarten for the benefit of little boys and girls under school age, though the number of such Garten is still only a few hundreds in all.
Boys and girls of all classes attend the same schools--children of rich merchants and county gentry side by side with those of coolies or humblest peasants.
In that way both boys and girls are imbued with the moral virtues, among which loyalty and patriotism are prominent.
There are several more, but mostly childish, and played by young girls or children at certain seasons of the year, such as "poem cards.
People talk about American girls getting the upper hand of their elders, as though they were not capable of giving advice to their somewhat belated relatives.
This often causes comical mistakes to be made by servant-girls who are told by their mistresses to pronounce it correctly, for they often mix up and use hi in place of shi and vice versa.
But even these schools are not exclusively attended by boys and girls of the nobility; for children of the commons who possess a satisfactory social standard are admitted to them.
She had quickly learned to wind it up under her armpits with a safe twist, as Malay village girls do when going down to bathe in a river.
He gave Davidson only a dumb look of unutterable awe, then, as if possessed with a sudden fury, started tearing open the front of the girls dress.
Brother Tom had spent the summer skipping from flower to flower, tasting the sweets of all the rosebud garden of girls in our pretty town.
Monroe was then thought to have more pretty girls than any place of its size in the country.
That summer when we were at home in Monroe, the General sent for him to come to us, and get his share of the pretty girls that Tom and the Michigan staff, who lived near us, were appropriating.
One of the young girls was so captivating, even in her disloyalty, that it amused us all immensely.
The clash of arms and glitter of the soldiery only appealed to me as it did to thoughtless, light-hearted young girls still without soldier lovers or brothers, who lived too far from the scenes of battle to know the tragic side.
In my first experience of the misery of being paragraphed, it was announced that General Custer had taken to himself a wife, in a town where ninety-nine marriageable girls were left.
The bewitching girlshad before them the evidence of his valor, and into what a garden he stepped!
He escorted the two girls through the woods, and starting with the joke of having caught them trespassing, they ended by having a merry talk.
We have to leave that to some of the girls who do the work on the picking belts.
Girls don't generally murder their uncles for choice, in my own experience; especially if they are also their benefactors.
Then, after burning five houses and stealing all the horses they could find, they turned back toward the Saline, carrying away as prisoners two little girls named Bell, who have never been heard of since.
What cared the little boys and girls of Leyden, released from school during the fair, for the peril close at hand?
It's said that many girlsand women have gone to-day in advance of the others.
This time no merry children with paper flags and wooden swords preceded the warriors, this time no gay girls and proud mothers followed them, not even an old man, who remembered former days, when he himself bore arms.
We have determined at the town-hall to-day, to request the women and girls to leave the city.
I'll say nothing against the girls who remain unmarried, for I have found among them many sweet, helpful souls.
Moreover, they are not restricted to one sex, but are just as likely to be met with in the guise of boys and men as of girls and women.
The mania grew; he spent all his time running after girls who were manicured, or who wore shining buttons, and, when he married, he besought his wife to sew buttons on every article of her apparel.
When I did arrive home, my wife met me in the hall, eager to tell me that at four o'clock both she and the girls had distinctly heard me come down the steps and through the conservatory into the house.
All the salons of the spacious apartments are thrown open, and the men in their picturesque court dress or military costume, and the women and girls in dainty gowns, make up an alluring scene.
It has become quite a feature in introducing young girls to present them first in private audience to Margherita, and then later to Queen Elena at the Court of the Quirinale.
She did not realize that girls like Evanthia never fade out.
They speak, not of a mistake of course, but of the strangeness of girls nowadays, and incompatibility of temperaments.
He evidently imagined marriage was a good joke and living withgirls a bad joke.
He had more, far more, than many of those girls and boys at home.
Ada Rivers was one of those girls who have come up since.
She was a type that Ada Rivers, for example, would not believe in at all, for girls like Ada Rivers are either Christian or Hebrew, whereas Evanthia Solaris was neither, but possessed the calculating sagacity of a pagan oracle.
He floated for a time in a dream of sensuous delight, for she was one of those girls who will obey orders, who like orders, in fact, and whose proud subservience sends a thrill of supreme pleasure through the minds of their commanders.
The civilian, who was a censor and decoder of neutral correspondence, was familiar with the Dainopoulos dossier in his office and had read with surprise the chatty letters to girls in London which came from the man's wife.
They've sent me out to see where all the nice London girls have got to.
That wise youth, who had gone ahead and made the most of his opportunities, was now done with pin-check suits and girls in post-card shops.
It did not occur to Mr. Spokesly to reflect that beautiful girls are usually eager to marry colonels of any denomination, or that colonels do not usually blend love and espionage.
It is easier for girls to be good than for boys," rejoined Hollis in an argumentative tone, "Is it?
I don't know that I can; girls are mysteries--you were a mystery once yourself.
She is with Delia now; the girls toss her back one to the other, and Clara wants to put her into the Old Lady's Home.
Girls must all have their story and the story must run on into womanhood as hers had, there was no end till it was all lived through.
She looked across at the framed photograph on the wall; six girls in the group and herself the youngest--the reward for perfect recitations and perfect deportment for one year.
And why should girls have, who have good mothers and the Old and New Testaments?
She had attempted to resign as teacher in Sunday school; but the superintendent and her class of bright little girls persuaded her to remain.
All the girls like the grown-up stories best" excused Marjorie.
Mother says she was one of the brightest and sweetest girls in all the city; she used to drive around with her father, and her wedding day was set, the cards were out, and then it came out that he had to go to state-prison instead.
They were close enough together now, as Marjorie chatted and Hollis listened; he had many questions to ask about the boys and girls of the village and Marjorie had many stories to relate.
Marjorie, "don't you think we country girls are away behind the age?
Some of the girls said that she did not care enough about dress.
They forbade the girls to approach him; and bursting in upon him, insulted him with brutal jests, and ended by tearing his habit, piece by piece, from off his back.
And finally, the girlslet their brother down, through the window, like another S.
You may treat girls as well as you like, and give them every comfort and luxury, and play fair just as if they were boys, but there is something unmanly about the best of girls.
It was greedy and slobbery, but all three girlsseemed unable to keep their eyes and hands off it.
The girls all drew back, and Alice said, "Oswald, I wish you wouldn't.
The girls only tucked up their frocks and took their shoes and stockings off.
However, the forts, and Pincher, and the girls crying, and having to be thumped on the back, passed the time very agreeably till dinner.
After the holidays the girls went to the Blackheath High School, and we boys went to the Prop.
We found some old striped sun-blinds in the attic, and the girls sewed them together.
The girls said it made them want to cry--but no boy would own to this, even if it were true.
She made each of the girls a fat red pincushion like a heart, and each of us boys had a knife bought out of the housekeeping (I mean housekeeper's own) money.
It is said the Madonna gives her most powerful aid to young girls who seek from her Son the mercy they were denied on earth.
He passed Helen twice, but ignored her, and whirled one of the Wragg girlsoff into a polka.
Everybody said that Hare was much happier on such occasions than in the pulpit, and even the Wragg girls were heard to admit that Helen looked positively charming.
Indeed, for an instant he forgot himself, and it was not until she spoke again that he realized how utterly oblivious were both girls of his nearness.
Spencer, stuffing his letters into a pocket, strolled that way too, and saw this pirate in a morning coat bear off both girls in a capacious motor car.
Yet, when all was said and done, he was in a hotel; the girls were strangers, and likely to remain so; and it was their own affair if they chose to indulge in unguarded confidences.
They seemed to be nice girls too, and she made up her mind to disillusion them speedily if they thought that she harbored designs on the callow youth whom they probably regarded as their own special cavalier.
Why, the Wragg girls will be green with envy when they hear of your exploits.
He said he never in his life ran across two pretty girls that trotted together.
I had been keeping the girls as a little surprise for him, Aunt Deb," said Arthur rather reproachfully.
Ye 'll find the girls round the side in a hammock.
There are a couple of very nice girlsin the town that I call on once in a while.
In fact, with the one exception previously mentioned, girls had never in any way entered his life.
A red dog was the only thing they feared, those girls who were turned to thunder.
But when the time for his expected return had come, he was nowhere to be seen, and the young girls began to rejoice at the misfortune which must have befallen him.
And then all the young unmarried girls ran into their houses.
When the girls grew up, and began to understand things, they desired to run away on account of their father's scolding.
And the young girls always ran away from him into their houses.
But men say that after those girls had become spirits, they returned to the places of men, frightening many to death.
And it was his custom to run down to the girlswhenever he saw them out playing.
Only the reindeer hunters saw them now and again, but the girls always refused to go back to their kin.
Their father and mother made search for them in vain, for the girls kept hiding themselves; they had grown to be true mountain dwellers, keeping far from the places of men.
All I saw, when I was younger, was the little singing-girls playing mora and wailing over their infernal three-stringed fiddles something about the moon and a bowl of water lilies.
Remember Oahu like it was when we first made it," he queried, "and the Kanaka girls swimming out to the ship with hybiscus flowers in their hair?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
