What were his coarse hands doing, dabbling in silks and cobweb laces and embroideries?
The clothes were put on slowly, for Margaret delighted in the feeling of soft silks and laces being drawn over her skin.
The very manner in which thelaces were draped had a suggestion of Ninon's still unforgotten art as a maker of millinery, and was really a very good presentment of Paris fashions four years past.
Father, I have some laces which were my mother's, who was a good woman, and which have never been worn by me.
With calmness and subdued feelings did her ladyship examine the costly satins and laces scattered in lavish profusion, and being in readiness to assume the most courtly and elegant costumes at the sanction of the fair enchantress.
It is rather amusing to see all kinds of groceries and provisions on one side, and silks, satins and laces on the other.
I might have been as old and ugly and rich as the yellow-skinned woman opposite me, who was turning over laces on the middle counter, for all these things meant to me--with Tom in jail.
Then, drawing the knight's own misericorde, he cut the laces of his bascinet and plunged the dagger into his Adversary's throat.
Nothing short of the breaking of the laces of the Frenchman's calque would release the man, and even then his unprotected head would be pierced by a ready arrow.
Swiftly Raymond bent to his aid, and, cutting asunder the laces of his bascinet, he found the stranger to be none other than Sir Reginald Scarsdale!
Driven ahead by the breeze she dipped and splashed sending showers of whitened water away from her prow and leaving a wake of foam-laces behind her like a veil.
Some time during the day he had put on high leather boots but having neglected to lace them, the bellows-tongued tops stood away from his sturdy legs and the raw-hide laces squirmed about his feet like live things.
The old man's sombrero was cocked at a militant angle; his long raw-hide laces snaked along behind his boots, and clouds of tobacco smoke enveloped him.
Kayak Bill, with his boot-laces snaking along behind him, shuffled over to his chair once more and settled himself for conversation, which Ellen had learned meant a monologue.
Then she passed by him still laughing, and the echo of her laughter came back to him long after the last gleam of her silks and laces had disappeared from sight.
Her slight figure in its black dress was alive and sinuous, responding to each emotion; her pale face grew illumined beneath its weight of white hair and drooping laces that fell about it.
Various modern laces are called Guipure, but the word is misapplied, since Guipure lace is that kind only where one thread is twisted round another thread or another substance, as in the ancient Guipure d'Art.
He could only pick out laces for her to iron, lie on his bed in pain for hours, and, each fair day, hobble out to sit in a little old chair between the water-butt and the leaky tin boiler in which he kept his library.
The new woollenlaces of all colors make a very good effect in the "going-away dress" of a bride.
All the very pretty imitation laces are appropriate for cheap silks, poplins, summer fabrics, or dresses of light and airy material; but if the substance of the dress be of the richest, the lace should be in keeping with it.
She does up Mrs. Carter's fine laces exquisitely, and Mr. Carter has twice been the bearer oflaces to be laundered, because his mother was afraid to trust such valuable pieces to a servant.
Silks and satins and costly fabrics, laces and jewels and rare trimmings from all over the world were brought together by hands experienced in costuming the great of the earth.
She looked very lovely when she reëntered the drawing-room; the medium tint set off her own rich colours, and the laces at throat and wrist were just simple enough to aid the whole effect.
Laces and plums can be ready as well Monday as Monday s'ennight.
No trouble about a straight front for you," she chuckled, and gave a sudden strong tug at the laces of Bubbles's corsets.
How many pairs of laces have you sold this morning?
Now fancy cotton goods, laces and trimmings are the leading specialities of the Swiss textile workers.
These contrivances were known as swivel-looms, and in 1724 Stukeley in his Itinerarium curiosum wrote that the people of Manchester have "looms that work twenty-four laces at a time, which was stolen from the Dutch.
She was gorgeous this evening in maize silk, that was like woven sunshine; she had a white camelia in her hair, a diamond cross on her breast, scented laces about her, diamonds on her arms and in her ears.
For Miss Catheron herself, she was quite bewildering in a dress of dead white silk, soft laces and dashes of crimson about her as usual, and rubies flashing here and there.
She had become greatly excited over these reflections, and, sweeping into a heap the laces and jewels which she had removed from her person, she began pacing the floor with swift, angry steps.
Mona thought she had plenty of laces and ruffles that would have answered very well, and which might easily have been substituted, but she did not think it best to make any further suggestions to her in her present mood.
He reached and caught up his sister's scissors from her knee, and, leaning forward, snipped the laces that strained across the fine scarlet satin of Pomona's cruel bodice.
His riding coat was of delicate hue, andlaces fluttered at his wrists and throat.
The laces of her sleeve fell back, and there about her wrist Stephen beheld a bracelet--a string of large, irregular pearls, rimmed and linked in silver.
The light glimmered upon his pale cheek, and on the finelaces of his shirt, redly, as if with stains of new blood.
Your kiss is worth a dozen dresses," she would say, and crush me to her in spite of whatever laces or jewels might lie between; and such words had been very dear to me.
I replaced it carefully, wondering at the keen sensation of pleasure that invaded me as the soft laces touched my hands.
She laces close by the mass I warrant you, and so does Sue too.
His hand became bolder, plucking at the lacesthat held her clothing together, baring places that only a husband should look at as he was looking now.
Redbird heard Sun Woman undoing the sinew laces that held the flap down.
He dropped the flag and pretended that his shoe-laces were loose.
Tim fussed with the laces a long time--was still fussing, in fact, when cries of "O you Foxes!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
