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Example sentences for "pelerine"

Lexicographically close words:
pela; pelage; pelagic; pelago; pelargoniums; pelerins; pelf; pelicans; pelief; pelieve
  1. Killed in 1799 in the battle of La Pelerine or at the seige of Fougeres.

  2. Flynn had robbed the pelerine and bracelet of their power to charm, and the "marked passages" no longer gave her consolation, for Finels had admired Rose's eyes.

  3. Miriam had discarded her little fur pelerine and her double-breasted jacket bulged loosely over the thin fabric of her blouse.

  4. Francois Parquoi died, as did Nicolas Laferte, Joseph Brouet and Sulpice Coupiau, of injuries received at the battle of La Pelerine and at the siege of Fougeres.

  5. This pelerine is edged with two rows of fringe.

  6. The corsage low and plain, with a pelerine which passes along the back and shoulders, and is brought down to the front of the waist in a point.

  7. Charlotte curled herself up in the deep window-seat, and watched her cousin as she laid aside her large bonnet, smoothed her hair, and arranged her white pelerine over her pelisse.

  8. She borrowed minds and gestures as later she borrowed Grandma Buntain's pelerine and bonnet.

  9. Bud carried the joke one night to daring lengths by going as Miss Macintosh with Ailie to a dance, in a gown and pelerine of Grandma Buntain's that had made tremendous conquests eighty years before.

  10. The fall of every curl had she studied well that morning, and the folds of the muslin pelerine over her shoulders.

  11. Mademoiselle Prefere, in lieu of making any reply, sighed profoundly, pressed her mysterious pelerine to her heart, and again contemplated the paper spiral.

  12. And she pressed her pelerine over her heart once more--not perhaps on this occasion to restrain, but doubtless only to caress that generous heart.

  13. From La Pelerine you will still see--" The young /emigre/ made a movement at the name which Marie alone noticed.

  14. From the summit of La Pelerine the traveller's eye can range over the great valley of Couesnon, at one of the farthest points of which, along the horizon, lay the town of Fougeres.

  15. Giving a last glance to the valley of La Pelerine before turning into that of Ernee, he thought he saw Coupiau's vehicle on the road he had just traversed.

  16. When you reach the summit of the slope we are now ascending you will see the plateau of Mont Pelerine in the distance.

  17. She advanced a little distance and saw the coach, which was beginning the ascent of La Pelerine with fatal rapidity.

  18. But just as Hulot reached the summit of La Pelerine he turned his head, as if by instinct, to inspect the anxious faces of the recruits, and suddenly broke silence.

  19. Just then the gallop of a horse coming rapidly up the slopes of La Pelerine was heard, and the young chief presently reappeared.

  20. A large pelerine cape is made to take on and off; and the bust from the back of each shoulder is ornamented with the same bias folds, forming a stomacher in front of the waist.

  21. Though long ends are very much in favour with silk pelerines, yet there are quite as many that are quite round; such was the black satin pelerine we cited above.

  22. She was next informed that she could not be presentable without a French pelerine of embroidered muslin.

  23. Mamma, do not you think I had better have my green pelerine cut in points rather than in scollops?

  24. Augusta then leaning back towards her mother, exclaimed, "Upon second thoughts, I think I will have the green pelerine scolloped, and the blue one pointed.


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