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Example sentences for "kerchiefs"

Lexicographically close words:
keramic; keratitis; kerb; kerbstone; kerchief; kere; kerf; kermes; kerne; kernel
  1. Then it was that ex-Lay-helper Levion set up a malicious laughter at his supplanter Enok, and opined that it was hot enough for most these days without tying kerchiefs round their ears.

  2. One of Enok's kerchiefs it was--a quondam bandage for the earache.

  3. Twill be over-hot for kerchiefs round the ears now.

  4. The brilliant kerchiefs of the women made them look like flower-gardens as they stood in smiling groups before some alluring bargain held up to their admiring eyes by salesmen.

  5. Tall Lombard poplars lingered on its brink, and peasant women in gay kerchiefs were washing linen in its green water.

  6. We waved kerchiefs again and again as long as waves could be seen.

  7. I have been told that superstitious thieves hang veils or kerchiefs before the picture in rooms where they depredate.

  8. Can I not bring over gowns and kerchiefs and silken ribbons for a pretty maid without a plot?

  9. But she held to her will to go to Master Ulman's dwelling; yet, whereas the kerchiefs and wraps were a discomfort to her, she agreed to lay them aside at our house first.

  10. But they got the gay colours which they loved in kerchiefs for their necks and shoulders.

  11. As far as the eye could reach, in the pure translucid atmosphere, the bright colored kerchiefs of the girls appeared above the wheat-fields like so many poppy flowers.

  12. Moving along paths through the yellow sea of wheat, and hidden in it to their shoulders, went village maidens with red kerchiefs on their heads, which resembled blooming poppies.

  13. There were few men among them, but the women, picturesque enough in their closely pinned kerchiefs of red or yellow, were more pertinacious than man ever dared to be.

  14. Mind your kerchief most of all, Fingers touch when kerchiefs fall; Shorter ell than mercers clip Is the space from hand to lip.

  15. It therefore became a fashion among the beauties of Paris to wear round their necks kerchiefs of the finest lace studiously disarranged; and these kerchiefs were called Steinkirks.

  16. I always had some; When the Madras-kerchiefs came, I always had some; When the printed calicoes came, I always had some.

  17. Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

  18. December], I was able to walk to London at an easy pace; but still with my kerchiefs and pale lean face.

  19. Change and alteration bringeth somewhat with it; what have they to do with kerchiefs and staves, with lame or sickly men?

  20. I see more fluttering curls and waving kerchiefs there than are good for your peace of mind.

  21. When the horsemen heard his words they let their head kerchiefs fall over their faces and wept, saying, "In very sooth King Omar is dead and he died not but of poison.

  22. The heads of several were bound around with knotted kerchiefs on which dark stains showed,--marks of a brawl aboard the brig or a fight with another ship.

  23. Sancho said they had, but that three kerchiefs that were worth three cities were missing.

  24. To this Sancho made answer, "The three kerchiefs I have; but the garters, as much as 'over the hills of Ubeda.

  25. The black head-*kerchiefs of many of the women spectators, tight to the skull with ends hanging down behind, seemed in harmony with the scene.

  26. So the milkmaids ran off to smooth their hair and their kerchiefs and do up ribbons and buttons or whatever else was necessary.

  27. But the only change possible was to take the kerchiefs off their white necks, and the shoes and stockings off their little feet, and let down their pretty hair.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kerchiefs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.