When she lends her patterns to her friends, or tells them this or that little secret, she laughs in her heart, knowing that she has shown them a path they cannot possibly follow and raised up a standard to which they cannot attain.
Here have I had these patterns three days, and I've already spent about five pounds' worth of brain-power upon a blouse that will cost five shillings.
I wonder if I'd better bring out my whole wardrobe and go through the hundred and one patterns again?
I've been worrying with those stupid patterns for days, and instead of getting any nearer a decision, I keep on thinking of something fresh that nothing seems to go with.
Above this balcony is a large window, twelve feet wide and ten feet high, divided with narrow mullions, and glazed with artisticpatterns of stained glass.
A very simple way of making screens is by the use of thin quartered oak-strips, woven into basket patterns of ornamental form.
For the most part, the patterns are in low relief.
Thus did God of old also; for when he showed to Moses the patterns of the heavenly things, he must ascend to the Mount Sinai (Exo 19:3).
The statutes and precedents adduced, with a humourous reference to the style in which charges are commonly given to juries, show what patterns persecutors choose to copy, and whose kingdom they labour to uphold.
He brought me to the gate,' saith he-that is, when by a vision he saw all the frame and patternsof the city and temple, in the state in which it was to be after the captivity.
The heart of even a noble enemy must be moved at the spectacle of citizens defending their homes, with muskets of obsolete patterns and shot-guns, against an invader having all the modern improvements in arms.
Muskets of obsoletepatterns and shotguns used by our soldiers at Fishing Creek, 22.
They were no patterns of devoutness or of morality.
These Temple workmen may stand as patternsof what religion should do for those of us whose lot is to work with our hands,--and not less for others who have to toil with their brains, and the sweat of whose brow is inside their heads.
There are but a few bits of coloured glass in a kaleidoscope, they take differentpatterns when the tube is turned, but they are always the same bits of glass.
Shadows we loved and the patternsthey covered the ground with Tapestries, mystical, faint in the breathless air.
And surely, at whatever risk, we must cry out that imagination is always seeking to remake the world according to the impulses and the patterns in that great Mind, and that great Memory?
It is the reigning fashion to be European, and even furniture after our patterns is coming into use.
These people are deceptively simple on the surface, but their minds do not work along the same patterns as ours.
He watched the swooping flight of gulls drawing patterns under the clouds above.
The inland negroes mark all sorts of patterns on their skins, partly "to expel evil influences.
Of the Yukon Indians of Alaska "some wore hoops of birch wood around the neck and waists, with various patterns of figures cut on them.
Roth cites Brooke Low, who said that tattooing was a custom of recent introduction: "I have seen a few women with small patterns on their breasts, but they were the exception to the rule and were not regarded with favor.
He described the different patterns on divers parts of the body used by various tribes, and made the further important observation that "by adding to the tattooing they grow old and honorable at the same time.
It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make a God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.
Whiteheaded youngsters all of them, looking (but for small patterns of blue calico and nankeen) not unlike a drove of little pigs.
He has sanctified them for ever, by shewing us that they are types and patterns of still higher relations to Himself, and to His Father and our Father, from whom they came.
During the first evening Jane and Isabella very carefully cut paper patterns from the articles which were sent as patterns, and marked them very exactly on the pasteboard before they cut it.
Let me know, by the next post, whether you are inclined to try, and I will send you a few patterns and materials.
Our makers of travelling carriages never make two precisely alike, and, what is more, the tastes of different families are so different that patterns are very unlike.
There was piled up ready for his choice a mountain of spears, of patterns as various as the swords.
Otherwise the outer face of the counter was of two blocks of Numidian marble, carved in patterns of twining vines; its top was of one long slab of the exquisitely delicate white marble from Luna.
Steel mirrors, in richly carved frames of those massive patterns peculiar to Spain, fling back the brilliant sunshine.
The engines of the Great Britain are made off the samepatterns as the paddle engines constructed by Messrs.
The floors were made of more solid wood, and the walls were papered with odd scraps of wall paper, sample patterns and such like, which some of his old employers gave him.
My walls were formed of the pretty very white species of wood, used by these deft shepherd carvers, and light, graceful openwork patterns were formed on them, by delicately cut cross pieces of a darker shade.
So she picked out the colours, and laid her card patterns on them, and cut them with as little waste as possible, and as I was the first ball she finished that evening, I saw and heard all that ensued.
The last group includes patterns made up of combinations of the other three, or those which might be classified either as loops or whorls.
The first attempt to classify the various patterns formed by the ridges was that of Purkenje, a doctor of medicine who, in 1823, delivered a thesis upon the subject at the University of Breslau.
In each instance it was possible to match the type of patterns in one class with those in any of the others.
The various patterns may, as a rule, be classified into the three main groups of arches, loops and whorls, while some of the transitional forms may be grouped under more than one of these heads.
The patterns of the finger-impression of a statesman, for instance, could be matched by those of an idiot.
I have found unique patterns in a parent repeated with marvellous accuracy in his child.
My own field work was devoted to an attempt to trace thepatterns of change among these people since the entrance of the white man into their area.
Where possible I have attempted to reconstruct the aboriginal patterns and trace the course of change between these two points in time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patterns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
