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Example sentences for "her dress"

  • Her dress rustled on the hearth; there was a sound of desolation in it; but her voice when she spoke was expressionless as that of an automaton.

  • Isabelle put her little rose carefully in the bosom of her dress, giving him her thanks mutely by an eloquent glance, which spoke more perhaps than she knew, and brought a flush of pleasure to his cheeks.

  • She always would stick flowers or leaves in her dress, which was thought quite ridiculous.

  • It was not, however, her dress, old and often queer and ill-made as it used to be, that was the chief grievance against her.

  • Talk of coquetry," in a disgusted voice, "do you suppose she did not know what she was doing when she pinned those La France roses in her dress!

  • She looked at herself for a moment, then with a hesitating hand she fastened a spray of white lilac in her dress.

  • Her dress, too, was singularly unbecoming--a big woman in a cotton blouse and a battered old hat was a spectacle to make him shudder.

  • Sometimes the thin hand would touch a fold of her dress caressingly, as though even that were sacred to him, and not a change of the speaking face or an intonation of her voice would be lost on him.

  • But the clutch of his hands, never still on the thin silk of her dress, turned her faint.

  • And suddenly he saw her tear at her dress, pluck something out, and throw it.

  • Unmindful of her dress, she sped through the long corridors, farther and still farther, down the staircase and away to the extremest end of the palace, until she reached the imperial theatre.

  • Never had the queen looked so transcendently lovely as she did to-day in her dress of deep mourning.

  • But the lovely Countess Esterhazy has a right to exceed all other women in the splendor of her concerts and balls, and the richness of her dress.

  • Her dress, as carefully chosen as possible, as we have said, consisted of a coif of fine cambric, trimmed with lace, with a lace veil thrown back and falling to the ground behind.

  • Linda had helped her to resume the skirt of her dress.

  • It went to the depths of her eyes; it included her face and hair; it included the folds of her dress, the cut of her shoe, and rested attentively on the slender hands lying quietly in her lap.

  • Her hands were surprised, and the skirt of her dress, and her shoes flatly set on the floor.

  • In her pleasure over the real flowers and the candy flowers Linda forgot her dress, but when she saw Peter Morrison standing tall and straight, in dinner dress, she stopped and looked the surprise and pleasure she felt.

  • This done, she put the card into the old-fashioned pocket of her dress, and returned to the dining-room.

  • Always remarkable for the taste and splendor of her dress, Lady Janet had on this occasion surpassed herself.

  • The ineradicable instinct of the sex directed her eyes to her dress, before the Germans appeared.

  • Lady Janet laid an indicative finger on the lace pelerine which ornamented the upper part of her dress.

  • Something jarred on her finer sense, something offended her better nature, as she put the case into the pocket of her dress.

  • Either I dropped them then, or they were taken from me,' answered Dolly, vainly searching her pocket and rustling her dress.

  • She was fumbling to get something out of the loose front of her dress.

  • They've been hunting him everywhere," he said in a half whisper to Alice, clutching the skirt of her dress.

  • Would she not think she had Silesia again in her dress- pocket?

  • She concealed it in the pocket of her dress, and continued to gaze indifferently upon a painting of Watteau, which hung upon the wall.

  • Her dress wuz a loose-wove parmetty, full in the waist and sort a drabbly round the bottom.

  • Her dress was a stiff sort of a shinin' poplin, made tight acrost the chest and elboes.

  • And what makes it harder for her to handle him is, her dress is so tight, and her sleeves.

  • And after she had took me into the parlor, and we had set down, she discovered some spots of flour on her dress, and she said she "had been pastin' some flowers into a scrap book to pass away the time.

  • I thought it was her fan or her bouquet she held concealed in the folds of her dress, but it proved to be--Gentlemen, you know what.

  • She held the pistol concealed in the folds of her dress.

  • She wore an apron, too, that was kind of checkered, and three buttons were open at the neck of her dress.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being obliged; her brother; her chair; her cheeks; her childhood; her dressing; her first; her good; her hair; her house; her name; her nephew; her only; her presence; her room; her soul; her words; her youth; herbaceous plants; here before; here below; here give; here shown; heroic poem; members were; mere matter