A snowy handkerchief of lisse crape is folded neatly across her bosom; her glossy brown silk dress rustles peacefully, as she glides up and down the chamber.
Where this is present, the work is of the prized haute lisse or high-warp manufacture, instead of the basse lisse or low-warp.
As he stood he could hear the river Lisse whispering, calling him.
The day of horror had ended with a dozen dropping shots from the outposts, now lining the banks of the Lisse from the Château de Nesville to Morteyn.
On the edge of the lawn the little river Lisse glided noiselessly towards the beech woods, whose depths, saturated with sunshine, rang with the mellow notes of nesting thrushes.
But these warlike ebullitions simmered away peacefully in the sunshine, and the tranquil current of life flowed as smoothly through Saint-Lys as the river Lisse itself, limpid, noiseless, under the village bridge.
They traversed the lawn, skirted the tall wall of solid masonry that separated the chase from the park, and, passing a gate at the hedge, came to a little stone bridge, beneath which the Lisse ran dimpling.
He would not have overtaken her of his own choosing, but at the foot of the ridge Mélisse gave up.
On the second evening he played for the last time in the little cabin; and after Mélisse had fallen asleep he took her up gently in his arms and held her there for a long time, while Cummins looked on in silence.
After all it was not the spirit of Mélisse that had come to him in the hour of his deepest grief, and a sob rose in his throat.
The leather-tanned immobility of her face underwent no whit of change when Cummins solemnly declared that the little Mélisse was about to begin teething.
And Mélisse was saying: "I wonder if there are many people as happy as Jean and Iowaka!
He had felt it first when Mélisse turned upon him at the foot of the mountain; and after that in the cabin, in every breath he drew, in every look that he gave her.
High up on the face of a jagged rock, Jan saw a bit of the crimson vine thrusting itself out into the sun, and, with Mélisse laughing and encouraging him from below, he climbed up until he had secured it.
To him, Mélisse was growing into everything that was beautiful.
I am sorry that I gave you my oath, Jan Thoreau, else I would go myself and tell Mélisse what I read in the papers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lisse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
