She occupied the morning in locking away her simple treasures, and in making into a small bundle a linsey dress and a change of linen.
Three have disappeared, owing to unfortunate accidents, this year, and now I am reduced to what can be contrived out of a linsey dress.
This being winter, I live in a short linsey dress, which is just right as to warmth, and not heavy.
Rand drew rein before the broken gate, and a young woman in a linsey gown rose from the porch step and came down the narrow path toward him.
Vinie set down her pitcher beside a clump of white phlox and wiped her hands on the skirt of her linsey dress.
Big Abel got a linsey suit made at Chericoke--I hope he'll come along in it.
As she caught sight of them, she waved wildly with her linsey apron, holding the milk pail carefully between her feet as the spotted cow turned inquiringly.
While she stormed Si kept his eyes fixed upon the scant linsey dress which draped her tall form.
We calculated I could wear that linsey jacket to meeting, under my coat; but 'twouldn't do rightly for a weddin'.
I might as well be married in the back kitchen with a linsey gown on, as if I were the daughter of old Betty, the pie woman!
The ladies dressed in linsey petticoats, and linsey or linen bed gowns, coarse shoes, stockings, handkerchiefs and buckskin gloves, if any.
She give all de women a bolt or linseyto make clothes and ma cut de pattern.
I wouldn't mistake Ann Boyd's solid shape and blue linsey frock ten miles off," was the cold comfort Sam dispensed in his next remark.
Now and then, as she trudged along, kicking up the back part of her heavy linsey skirt in her sturdy strides, a shudder would pass over her and a weighty sigh of indecision escape her big chest.
With a desperate curse he pulled a linseyjacket off a peg, tore it into strips, and bound up the injury as tightly as possible.
When these are gone I'll get no more except linsey ones," she said brightly, yet her eyes shone with a wistful uncertainty of the future.
Now heat a blanket, and get one of your linsey gowns for this poor child.
He wore the same shirt and one suspender and linsey trousers which he had worn in the dooryard of the tavern, but his feet were covered only by his blue yarn socks.
The latter was rather grotesque in his newlinsey trousers, of a better length than the former pair, but still too short.
One suspender held up his coarse, linsey trousers, the legs of which fitted closely and came only to a blue yarn zone above his heavy cowhide shoes.
The little river flowed in a silver current, smoke rose from many chimneys, and now and then the red homemade linsey dress of a girl gleamed in the sunlight like the feathers of the scarlet tanager.
She wore a dress of homemade linsey dyed red, and its close fit suggested the curves of her supple, splendid young figure.
With a slant of half-veiled eyes she also was studying the women's linseypetticoats and bare feet, for now that it was warm weather many dispensed with any foot-covering.
Without a word to betray the anguish tearing at her heart she gathered her linsey petticoat snugly about her, and grasping an ax, ran swiftly toward the direction of the screaming.
Ward was talking to Patsy, whose dainty figure could not be disguised by the coarse linsey gown.
She was wearing a linsey petticoat and a short gown for an overskirt.
There was a whirl of linsey petticoats behind me, and two plump arms were about my neck; and her dear voice was sobbing: "They didn't know!
We children were dressed early in our new linsey travelling suits; and as the final packing progressed, we often peeped out of the window at the three big white covered wagons that stood in our yard.
Linsey dresses are the most suitable for children.
Georgia and I were clad in quilted petticoats, linsey dresses, woollen stockings, and well-worn shoes.
It was even a hardship to her to leave off her country dress, her uncovered hair, her linsey petticoat, and loose bed-gown, and to don a stiff and stately gown for her morning dress.
His coarse linsey shirt was soaked with blood, now dry and almost black.
She was dressed in a brown, linsey gown, white apron, white neck shawl and white cap.
At the open door stood a short, stout old lady, in a homespun brownlinsey gown, a white apron, and a white cap.
And do you go about daily dressed like this--in stuff or linsey woolsey?
Had on when he went away, a striped Linsey Woolsey Jacket, Tow Shirt and Trowsers, an old Felt Hat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linsey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
