Parasols and fans were of fabulous price, as it seemed to Lesbia; and the shoes and stockings to match her various gowns occurred again and again between the more important items, like the refrain of an old ballad.
We had parasols just alike, and we stood waiting until the first boom rang out from the big bell in the church tower far down the street.
The parasols cast a pleasant shade, and I had a big five-cent piece in my right hand that meant church, and another clutched tightly in my left that meant Sunday school.
Pretty gals leaning forward eager-eyed, lips parted, with an air of piquing rendezvous to the parasols clutched in their dainty hands.
During the summer day the beaches are lively and the vari-colored bathing suits and parasols offer little carnival panels at the ends of the east running streets.
It peeped out through a temple gate or at the end of one of the streets of Tokio, between the ripening ears of a rice-field or the raised parasols of dancing girls.
Between these are wooden stages built over the surface of the river and covered with straw thatch and large parasols or awnings.
The standing and sitting groups were closely packed together, and the expanded parasols and umbrellas formed a nearly unbroken roof.
These they gave to the boys, who lost no time in forming a brigade, parasols in the air and boxes under arms, to the distress and dismay of the unlucky owners.
Tavia and Alice helped make things livelier by gathering up parasols and lunch boxes that had been left in the wagons for safety.
The bearded personage who had shown me to my seat, appeared, followed by a dozen attendants bearing paper parasols and bags containing little celluloid balls, red, white, and blue.
Parasols waved, flowers were thrown, and a roar of applause lasted for minutes.
There were few parasols here, but bonnets and aprons, and some of the younger ones even bareheaded.
Almost all the parasols which were to be seen on the market-place were either on the steps, or round about them, a many-coloured moving shield-like roof under which endless stories and laughter went on.
Under their tilted parasolsthey had made their little speeches.
It was a September afternoon and they were very gaily dressed, and again Caroline had a feather drooping over her hair, while Sophia, more girlish, wore a wide hat with a blue bow, and both their parasols were tilted as before against the sun.
The bride and her maids can walk over the delicate sward without soiling their slippers, and an opportunity offers for carrying parasolsmade entirely of flowers.
Three or four brilliant red parasols add amazingly to the general effect of the scene.
Umbrellas and parasolsquickly go up to screen from the sun, and we lean restfully back, in contented anticipation of the remaining half of the day's ride.
But Bessie Bell could not see anything to be afraid of: the band was playing just as gaily as ever, and the children, and the nurses, and the babies, and the parasols were as gay as ever.
Rafael could hear the voices of some women who seemed to be climbing the road, and from his reclining position he finally made out two parasols that were gradually rising to view over the edge of his bench.
Rafael turned once more in the direction of the two parasols that were slowly winding down the slope.
Amid shouts and cheers and waving parasols the people raised the National Anthem, and for once there was some dignity in that inferior tune.
White were their parasols and in front they waved a Red Cross flag.
The very last of them, muslins and parasols and all, was swallowed up in the enclosing woods, almost before Daisy was established in her chair.
Blue and pink and white and green, the various light muslins contrasted with the grey or the white dresses of the gentlemen; while parasols were thrown about, and here and there a red shawl lay upon the ground, for somebody's reclining carpet.
But the guardian of parasols kept a firm hold on his sheepskin.
There they are coming out of the Museum, and all the parasols will get wrong!
He considered ladies' parasols an infamous institution, and wished they were all sunk in the sea; especially that particular blue one of Charlotte's which had led to the accident that unlucky afternoon.
And Nave, giving an angry growl to parasols in general, pulled the horse up.
Times have changed and sea routes, so the name should be passed east to this Gulf of Suez, where ladies and parasols look at their best and the appearance of a man in oilskins would be positively alarming.
We sat opposite, in half circles of white uniforms and gay parasols and dresses and dreams of hats.
Here they come at last, four and four, the horses prancing and dancing and pointing quivering ears at the tossing sea of hats and parasols and ribbons.
But they walk with heads erect and chests out, and the ladies wave their gay parasols and cheer them.
For some time they held their parasols over their heads; and then they shut them, and made marks on the gravel with the ends of the ivory sticks.
In her wrinkled hand she held the lorgnette, with her initials in diamonds, through which it amused her to peer at the shrill patches of the parasols outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parasols" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
