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Example sentences for "marguerites"

Lexicographically close words:
margins; margosa; margraves; margraviate; margravine; mari; mariage; mariages; marido; maried
  1. But the woman's tale was that, after she had been stitching through the long night, the dawn came through the roof and found her with four marguerites still left to be embroidered in gold on the pieces of satin that lay in her lap.

  2. The four marguerites were all being embroidered at the same time!

  3. Ah, madam, the tears of thankfulness that ran from her hot eyes and fell upon those golden marguerites of yours!

  4. Gorham felt very much ashamed in having his sister treat Miss Pritchet's marguerites in such an unfeeling manner; he felt very much ashamed indeed.

  5. Need I say that Miss Pritchet taught her at once what it was to put the roots of marguerites to air?

  6. Marguerite herself has left a considerable collection of poems of the most diverse kind and merit, the title of which, Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses[172], is perhaps not the worst thing about them.

  7. Besides the poems printed under the pretty title of Les Marguerites de la Marguerite, she produced many other works, as well as the Heptameron which was not given to the world until after her death (1558).

  8. Their bucklers are designed in the form of marguerites or marigolds; the A under the right hand figure is Alpha, whence we may perhaps equate this saint with Alpha, the consort of Noah.

  9. This was probably a purely symbolic and elementary form of the dolorous and pensive St. John which Christianity figured with a pair of marigolds or marguerites in lieu of feathers or antennae.

  10. As the marguerites exposed their yearning golden hearts, so she kept nothing back, laid bare her own heart to the sun that was its lord.

  11. We sat down between the staring marguerites and the sea.

  12. Who, only looking at them, he serious and radiant, she as I had seen her among the marguerites that afternoon?

  13. Geraniums need about a foot square each, Marguerites eighteen inches, Dwarf Marigolds nine inches.

  14. Geraniums and Marguerites do not like much water.

  15. She thanked her mother with a look when she saw the fresh marguerites in the two enamel vases.

  16. As Maurice looked about the little room, as fresh, as white, as the two pots of marguerites on the mantel-shelf, an indefinable sentiment swelled up within him.

  17. The girl was mechanically picking to pieces the white petals of bright-eyed marguerites and strewing the ground beside her.

  18. With the white marguerites and the dew cobwebs, it was all moon-flowery and white; and the rabbits being there made it perfect.

  19. A bamboo-framed talc screen painted with white and yellow marguerites stood before a fireplace filled with pampas-grass dyed red.

  20. There was nothing to mark the passage of a fair young dream, born this lovely October afternoon, save a few dead marguerites and the scattered flakes of their snow-white petals.

  21. A parterre of marguerites was laid out close to the terrace.

  22. White satin ribbons festooned on two rows of potted marguerites made a bridal pathway direct from the foot of the stairway to the dais beneath the canopy.

  23. One table with marguerites was reserved for bride and bridegroom, ushers, and bridesmaids.

  24. Marguerite de Valois, the first of the three Marguerites of the sixteenth century, does not altogether resemble the reputation made of her from afar.

  25. Long after that period, however, they still hunted, as it were, at random, attacking the first animal they met.

  26. On some occasions they killed animals of all sorts by thousands, after having tracked and driven them into an enclosure composed of cloths or nets.

  27. She was, also, one of the Marguerites who wore black hair.

  28. Most of the Marguerites whom I have seen make her too sophisticated, too complicated.

  29. Nilsson was much the most attractive of all the Marguerites I have ever seen, yet she was altogether too sophisticated for the character and for the period, although to-day I suppose she would be considered quite mild.

  30. And the gold marguerites have not been brushed since you went away.

  31. He, too, wore marguerites in his buttonhole.

  32. But the instant that the captain had recognized a bunch of white marguerites in her belt he had, without knowing why, been moved to conceal his identity.

  33. Maybe she has come already and looked through the windows, and saw TWO men with marguerites and went away.

  34. A man wearing two marguerites in the lapel of his coat had entered abruptly, and sat down to a table close at hand.

  35. Catherine looks splendid in hers, and those big hats with Marguerites are so becoming.

  36. The other bride's-maids wore green silk sashes, and green with the marguerites which trimmed their broad hats.

  37. This story should be compared with the poem "Quatre Dames et Quatre Gentilhommes" in the Marguerites de la Marguerite.

  38. I picked up the marguerites and tossed them again down nearer to him.

  39. Her book, "Les Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses," is too well known to be much more than mentioned here.


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