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Example sentences for "male attire"

  • She had been forced to traverse the whole of France disguised in male attire, brave more than one danger, endure much suffering and privation, only to struggle in the sequel with five consecutive years of fruitless agitation.

  • Dressed in male attire, Clarissa left the miserable coop where she had been almost without light or air for two and a half months, and unmolested, reached the boat safely, and was secreted in a box by Wm.

  • Female Slave in Male Attire, fleeing as a Planter, with her Husband as her Body Servant.

  • Numbers of women, imbibing the spirit of the times, accompanied those bands of adventurers--sometimes disguised in male attire, but more frequently in the garments of their own sex.

  • Besides these prisoners, many Gothic women and girls, in male attire, had been found dead on the field of battle.

  • She then fled from the palace, disguised herself in male attire, and quitted the city.

  • It was dressed in a complete suit of male attire; and a white mask gave it the real but ghastly appearance of a dead body.

  • She also goes to Sylvia at Proteus's orders to plead his cause with her; but in the novel the fair lady falls in love with the messenger in male attire--an incident which Shakespeare reserved for Twelfth Night.

  • One or two points in the play remind us of Lovers Labour's Won, which Shakespeare had just completed in its original form; for example, the journey in male attire in pursuit of the scornful loved one.

  • Loathing his task, the man consents to spare her, gives her a suit of male attire, and suffers her to escape, bringing his master false tidings of her death, and producing her clothes in witness of it.

  • I told you in my note not to be surprised if you should find me disguised in male attire; I moreover requested you to arm yourself with pistols.

  • I wish to purchase a complete suit of male attire--for myself," said Miss Monroe.

  • When you left Vaucouleurs you put on male attire.

  • But back in my prison, I shall resume my male attire out of fear of being outraged by your people, as they have tried before now.

  • I rose every morning at six, dressed myself in male attire, and went off to my garden, where I had a place prepared in the open air, which served me for a riding-school.

  • Put on male attire as quickly as you can, and wait.

  • During the third year of her management she attacked the Sivinskis of Brovarki twice with armed hand, dressed in male attire and on horseback, leading her servants with hired Cossacks.

  • I have never had cause to regret my adoption of male attire, and never expect to return to a female toilette.

  • Mr. Herald with his outside recruits did not come forward with the suit of male attire at the close, as he had advertised he would, (I did not tell Mrs. N.

  • Her clothes were all perfect in their fit, and of Paris make; and her figure was singularly well adapted to male attire.

  • She was attended by two handmaids, also in male attire.

  • In 1778, having dressed herself in male attire, she enlisted under the name of Robert Shirtliffe for the whole term of the war.

  • When in sight of Cachoeira, she halted; and going a little way from the road, dressed herself in male attire.

  • It was the shadow of a slender figure, in male attire, a cap on the head, one hand raised, while the index finger was being shaken after somebody in the distance.

  • Neither bolts nor bars could restrain the impetuosity of this tremendous woman, who burst from her prison, ana putting on male attire, which became her much better than her own, she escaped into Holland.

  • The eldest ran away to France, and Eleanor had actually put on male attire, with the intention of abandoning Henry, when, unfortunately for him, he was silly enough to have her imprisoned for the purpose of stopping her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already said; both languages; chamber door; clean heart; each boat; false doctrine; favourite resort; give rise; half century; inside view; kept constant; leaned forward; letter copy; long thoughts; male and; male attire; male child; male fern; male issue; more remarkable; must tell; not mean; nothing but; slow movement; terrible fright; their lands