Concha, alone, wore no color; her frock was white, her mantilla black.
The face under the shadow of the mantilla was so arch and piquant, Keith could not disguise his admiration.
Drawing her mantilla over her, and speaking languidly and slowly, as if the dreamy influence of the tropical night affected her, Isabel broke the silence, just as the last tone of the bell quivered over the sea.
The hair was brushed backwards, fastened behind by a large comb, tipped with gold, from which hung the long mantilla of Spain.
The black mantilla no longer veiled her bright head.
The black mantilla draped her shoulders and bust with a certain austerity of effect.
There stood his little saint, a black mantilla draped about her head and shoulders, her face like glorified melancholy, her clear eyes gazing longingly at him as if they might draw him between the bars to her.
She was clad in a skirt of flowered yellow satin, a chemise of ruffled linen, and wore a purple mantilla from the looms of Spain.
Why had this man followed my mother, and why did her mantilla lie thus upon the ground?
It was my mother's mantillawhich I knew, and yet did not know, because I always saw it set daintily upon her head.
My cousin's wife had discharged her, but there was no ill-feeling, so she came to pay a complimentary call, in black lace mantilla and pink blouse.
But as she threw aside the mantilla that partially shaded her face, and almost sank on a seat beside the bed, it was easy to see that she was very faint and weary, if not also very sick at heart.
It was, however, scarcely accidental that his aunt, as she passed him on her way to an inner room, drew her mantilla closer round her, lest its deep lace fringe might touch his clothing.
I listened and believed, after a fashion; half thinking all the time of the pretty fans and trinkets you brought me, or of the pattern of such and such an one's mantilla that I had seen at mass.
They flung themselves to the earth, beating their heads and breasts,--all but Delfina de Capalleja, who drew her mantilla about her face and walked away.
I wonder will she give Eulogia a mantilla when the chit marries.
Beautiful women in silken fluttering gowns, bright flowers holding the mantilla from flushed awakened faces, sat their impatient horses as easily as a gull rides a wave.
She took from the drawer of the wardrobe a mantilla of white Spanish lace, and draped it about her head and shoulders, fastening it back above one ear with a pink rose.
You have killed her," said the old woman, as she drew the mantillaabout the baby's face.
She walked rapidly up and down the long room, too excited to sit down, flinging the mantilla back as it brushed her hot cheek.
The princess had now dried her eyes, and had drawn the folds of the mantilla closer about her face.
Cunegunda came along the walk with a mantilla of fine black lace over her arm; this she threw, Spanish fashion, over the head and shoulders of her young mistress.
She was dressed in a robe of a rich woven cloth of gold made in the fashion of the kingdom, and over that a mantilla all spangled with lozenges of crimson and black velvet, and on each lozenge was a large pearl.
And I see leaning from the shades A lilac like a lady there, who braids Her white mantilla about Her face, and forward leans to catch the sight Of a man's face, Gracefully sighing through the white Flowery mantilla of lace.
She must have a mantilla for her head," Mrs. Sanderson cried, as she caught from her own shoulders the rich Spanish lace scarf, which she wore in her drives as a throat protector.
Mariposilla, in her actual character of sweet senorita, was enveloped in a rich mantilla of black lace, coquettishly caught upon the shoulders and to the hair with pink roses.
Yes, I am growing old," she continued as she drew the ends of her mantilla around her bare shoulders.
Also, her light mantilla had slipped to her shoulders, and the broad ribands of her hat were floating over her bosom.
Delicate filmy threads of gold intersected the heavy white Valenciennes lace mantilla attached to her high silver comb, etched in gold and studded with diminutive diamonds, which sparkled in the light like dew in the sunshine.
Dumoulin did not answer, but replunging his hand into his inexhaustible pocket, he fished up a parcel, which he carefully unfolded, and in which was a magnificent mantilla of black lace.
Rose-Pompon started up, full of new admiration, and Dumoulin threw the rich mantilla over the young girl's shoulders.
The lady, who was his daughter, wore neither mantilla nor veil; she looked as if she had been suddenly dragged away while in the act of performing her morning toilette.
She fell on Cousin Peligros' mantilla and extracted two hairpins from it despite the resistance of the soft white hands.
Then she twisted up the heavy plait that hung to her waist, threw back her mantilla and stood laughing before the old lady.
Her mantilla flying in the wind blew across the bishop's face which that youthful-looking dignitary endured with patience.
Juanita, looking at him with bright eyes beneath her mantilla flying in the wind.
She had thrown back the hood of Marcos' military cloak and now set her mantilla in order.
He quitted the hut and overheard the woman pointing out to Juanita that she had lost her mantilla coming through the trees in the dark.
Almost immediately Juanita came hurrying back and instinctively drew her mantilla closer at the sight of his shadowy form.
I have torn my beautiful thread-lace mantilla all to rags; it's ruined for ever.
Alida about her lace mantilla and her gold watch, and it has come home to you.
Before he reached the house he saw a girl flying towards him, her mantilla streaming behind.
The old lady, still with her eyes fixed on the servant, shook her head and clutched her mantilla convulsively.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mantilla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
