An extra-sized umbrella was then handed in by Mr. Dodson, and a pair of pattens by Mr. Fogg, each of whom had prepared a most sympathising and melancholy face for the occasion.
In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops, were the only sounds to be heard.
Ludowika could continue to dress in rare fabrics, to step in elaborate pattens over the common earth.
She was swathed in a ruffled lilac cloak quilted with a dull gold embroidery; satin slippers were buckled into high pattens of black polished wood; and her head, relatively small with tight-drawn hair, was uncovered.
In pattens she tripped about the slushy yard, her thick, bright hair pegged loosely, and her child's bosom and arms as white as the snow she stepped on.
But a servant is a servant, John Drogue, and the mistress of your roof shall have walked in silk before she ever puts on homespun and pattens for love of you!
In the street, umbrellas were the only things to be seen, and the clicking of pattens and splashing of rain-drops were the only sounds to be heard.
It was in the autumn, and Oline wore shoes every day, instead of going in wooden pattens or rough hide.
I'd no thought there was any such haste to wear out goodpattens all at once.
Said Oline: "As for that, I'll wear out my pattens in time, no doubt.
For a long minute the distant clatter of Modest Ann's tongue, and the clink of pattens in the yard, were the only sounds that broke the lemon-laden silence of the room.
Anyways, there are some pattens, so that you can get about--there's as good as you have gone on pattens before now!
She struck on the half-open door, and a pair ofpattens clanked across the kitchen flags.
Then with a final look round she went out, her pattens clinked across the court, and Henrietta heard the key turned in the outer door.
I came to the land of Abruzzi, where the men and women go in pattens on the mountains, and clothe the hogs with their own entrails;(18) and a little further on I found folk that carried bread in staves and wine in sacks.
These pattens were fitted on by means of a screw apparatus, which met in front of the foot and was easily fastened.
The mode by which these pattens served to sustain the horse is capable of easy explanation, and it will be observed that the rationale alike explains the floating of a railway.
Mrs. Yorke had, at the last moment, concluded not to bring the young Pattens to Boston, but had secured them places with the family who had taken her house.
In the entry Betsey stood stiffly, the two young Pattens in perspective.
But the thought that another should appear before Polly Pattens in that costume was too much for Mr. Lint; he agreed to pay the fifteen shillings for the garment.
A laundress in pattens passed in at one door, a newspaper boy issued from another.
The clack of a pair of pattens echoes through half the place, and you may hear the creaking of the rusty old ensign at the Clavering Arms, without being disturbed by any other noise.
These pattens are very difficult to manage, and give the wearer an awkward mincing gait.
One could not imagine the rural housewife and her maids flushing their brick floors and wading through the "muck" of their farmyards without their pattens on, nor imagine another contrivance that would have answered the purpose better.
What is there to take the place of clogs and pattens in usefulness to the class which once wore them?
Yet I suppose there are no clogs andpattens nowadays--I saw none; and, if so, it seems rather a pity.
Waggons creak, horses splash, carts rattle, and pattens paddle through the dirt with more than their usual clink.
Meanwhile Aurelia, mounted on a pair of pattens brought by the negro to keep her above the dew, was crossing the park by the light of a fine hunter's moon, Jumbo marching at a respectful distance in the rear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pattens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
