In these characters, however, she could be excelled by others, but in Lady Betty Modish and Lady Townley she was probably never equalled.
Your poem in its modish dress, Correctly fitted for the press, Convey by penny-post to Lintot; But let no friend alive look into 't.
Nothing bucolic here; a dark and gypsy beauty which glowed and kindled beside the fainter types about them, a whollymodish smartness, an elusive something to which he could not put a name, which gave him always the sense of glad pursuit.
Gumbo was always dexterous in the art of dressing hair, and with a little powder flung into his fair locks Mr. Warrington's head was as modish as that of any gentleman in the Mall.
He was an agnostic, a term commonly employed by the modish to avoid the odious one of freethinker.
Madame de la Verdeliere, who was assiduous in every modish and patriotic practice, was reckoned, in the best French society, as one of the most gracious of the great ladies interested in good works.
These now, my Lord, are some few of the many modish amusements, that distinguish the privilege of a wife, from that of a single woman.
Minor, by Mr. Foote Miser, by Fielding Modern Husband Modish Couple, by C.
As she turned restlessly away from the case, her glance fell on the two girls, who stood examining the cards on the wall near, and she half smiled at their grotesqueness, as she called their modish style of apparel.
They looked very fetching in their modish golf-costumes, with their bags slung carelessly over their shoulders, as each one seized her hand and shook it cordially, while smiling down upon her in a most friendly and chummy way.
And then, fearing that the girl might detect her lack of admiration for her modish appearance, she hastily added, "Oh, you have grown to be quite a young lady.
He, as well as Madam de Broglie, was a master of all the modish and fashionable small talk jargon of Paris.
For a self-conceited modish life, made up of trifles, clinging to a corporeal civilization, hating ideas, there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
As Master-Card is indicated the existence of a brilliant, gifted Woman; fond of social life and modish things, of dress or expensive and rare matters; perhaps of Talent in art or literature.
Modish society was addicted to matters over which argument was hardly worth while--in which respect we find modish society the same in all epochs.
By a Diamond, a Woman gifted, and esteemed much in Modish Life.
I fear you do not understand thesemodish terms, which every creature now understands but yourself.
Her head had been crowned with a tall peaked modish beaver hat, from which a purple feather rakishly swept over the goddess's left ear.
She played Lady Townley and Lady Betty Modishwith "happy ease and gaiety.
At more modish weddings the guests merely enter the bridal-chamber and throw stockings--in which stones or something to make weight are placed--at the bride and bridegroom in bed.
The politest, the most modish of our vices, the most fashionable of our entertainments, he struck at, regardless of every one's presence but His in whose name he spake.
They were carried by the western counties under the leadership of Patrick Henry, recently elected from the back country to sit in sober home-spun garb with the modish aristocrats of the tide-water.
You are well rid of this forsworn captain, dear Mistress Thankful; and methinks that with hair as beautiful as yours, the new style of wearing it, though a modish frivolity, is most becoming.
What if Mistress Bolton should see her own cavalier, themodish Major Van Zandt, proffering his affections to the disgraced sweetheart of a perjured traitor?
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence.
These Forms of Conversation by degrees multiplied and grew troublesome; the Modish World found too great a Constraint in them, and have therefore thrown most of them aside.
A few Months after I brought up the modish Jacket, or the Coat with close Sleeves.
Her Commode was not half a Foot high, and her Petticoat within some Yards of a modish Circumference.
The modish Hypocrite endeavours to appear more vicious than he really is, the other kind of Hypocrite more virtuous.
Those of her age seemed but girls yet by her side, whether married or unmarried, and howsoever trained to modish ways.
This young man was already well known in the modishworld of town for his beauty and adventurous spirit.
She had the majestic composure of a young lady who had worn nothing less modish than such raiment all her life, and who had prayed decorously beneath her neighbours' eyes since she had left her nurse's care.
And he told my mother that he was not rich or the fashion now, and had nomodish friends or relations to flout any poor beauty he might choose to wed.
And then they had all heard and knew that in Petersburg carousing worldly ladies, and even girls, permit themselves, out of a modish snobbism, pranks far worse than the one which Rovinskaya had proposed.
Modish collars of all possible fashions, cravats, diamond cuff links, watch charms, the underwear of a dandy, and chic footwear constituted his main distractions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
