He says you stole that kirtle you have on," I continued.
The oven was loaded by that time and ready for its return to the intense heat; nay, more, the chef in the red kirtle already had his hand on a wheel which presumably released the lifting power.
The gentleman in the red kirtle went forward and held converse with the gentleman of the gilt torso.
With his unshaven face and red kirtle he succeeded only in making himself ludicrous.
She put on the white taffeta kirtle and farthingale that was always kept for Sunday, and fastened a fluted ruff about her throat.
Remembering her dress, she unfastened it with haste and put on the kirtle of white taffeta.
She was dressed in fashion of the Puritans, with kirtle of sad-coloured homespun.
Then they wash themselves very carefully with soap, and when the first comes out in her blue tight garment, she slips the green kirtle over her head and the blue dress drops off underneath it.
This garment, with its white band tight across her bust, remains on when the green kirtle drops to her feet.
I see the tall beauty in green kirtle get a friend to raise her flat basket of oranges on plaintain leaves on to her head, a slow elegant movement she may have learned in dancing.
A buxom wench in ample wide kirtle of striped duffle, had been busy when he entered in spreading clean linen sheets upon the narrow little bed built in the panelling of the room.
Her hair though still unruly was coiled around her head, her shift and kirtle were neatly fastened, but her legs and feet were bare and above the shift her neck and shoulders appeared colourless and attenuated.
He’s welcome to kirtle red for me; Somebody’s fast, while somebody’s free!
There will I make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
Anna helped her to undress, and when the crown and the kirtle were laid aside, she moved about for some moments without speaking.
She closed the door of the sitting-room to shut out the sound of the piano, and then came forward and held out her hand, feeling little and weak in her kirtle and the bridal crown across her forehead.
She wore a broad hat of straw, I remember, and her skirt and kirtle were of green, the fairies' colour.
I had seen her in silk and lace, a queen among the gallants, but she never looked so fair as on that misty morning, her hair straying over her brow, her plain kirtle soiled and sodden, but her eyes bright with her young courage.
Blackett Tower, also on the Kirtle (parish of Kirkpatrick-Fleming), was a border fortress well known in the records of border raid and foray.
He sheareth a deal from his kirtle meet, To make her sandals for her feet.
The lights were quenched, the nurse went forth, They deemed they were alone: Lord Hafbur drew off his kirtle red, Then first his sword outshone.
Out then spake a little page Was clad in kirtle red: "Sweet Signy burns in her bower aloft, With all her mays unwed.
The vest or kirtle of the lady is formed entirely of the colours of her arms disposed quarterly, and parted horizontally, or fessways, by the line dancette.
Her eyes were large, and full of light, Her arms and neck were bare; No garment she wore save a kirtle bright, And her own long, raven hair.
And all pursue with eager haste, And all attain what they pursue, And touch her pretty apron fresh and new, And the linen kirtle round her waist.
His kirtle of clean white, Cleanly y-served, It was good enough ground Grain for to beren.
To him there Came swift a spirit in shape of virgin slim, With snooded hair and kirtle belted trim, Short to the knee; and in her face the gale Had blown bright sanguine colour.
THE EVE OF CRECY Gold on her head, and gold on her feet, And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet, And a golden girdle round my sweet; Ah!
I took my armour off, Put on king's robes of gold; Over thekirtle green The gold fell fold on fold.
The lad said again, "Next sat a young man; he was in a blue kirtle and black breeches, and his tunic tucked into them.
Bolli stood still against the dairy wall, and held tight to him his kirtle lest his inside should come out.
He was usually dressed in this way--he wore a scarlet kirtle below and a grey cloak outside, and a bearskin cap on his head, and a sword in his hand.
Her little pointed boots were of green samite, wrought with silver, and a splendid embroidered mantle, in which the colours of the kirtle and skirt were subtly blended, hung from her shoulders, and was held up by two little page boys.
Poor little sister Thomasine also remarked sadly that she had no kirtle provided for her use[470].
Madam, thanks be to God, she is in good health, but I assure your ladyship she lacketh convenient apparel, for she hath neither whole gown nor kirtle, but the gown and kirtle that you sent her last.
Ay, but they're not all dug by the sexton," remarked Temperance, patting the blue kirtle to make it lie in the hole she had left for it.
Thy black beaver hat thou wert best to journey in, for though it be good, 'tis well worn; and thy grey kirtle and red gown.
Though the Kirtle on the Surcoat was anciently given by the King to the Knights-Subjects, yet we do not find the Mantle of the Order was, nor indeed of a later Date, unless now and then, as a distinguishing mark of Favour.
The English king Harald said to the Northmen who were with him, "Do ye know the stout man who fell from his horse, with the blue kirtle and the beautiful helmet?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kirtle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
