A war of extermination, often leading to the most burlesque scenes, was declared by the Cornelians against the Langerians, who were despised because they had retained a few of the technical acquirements of the peruke period.
The painter could not proceed otherwise than by draping a modern, professional model, having consulted portraits, drawings, or busts, and having sought the aid of a peruke and false beard.
Wogan drew on the coat again, pulled his peruke about his face, and drew his hat forward on his forehead.
But through the fog he saw, comfortably stretched in his best armchair, with his peruke pushed back and his waistcoat unbuttoned, a lackey in Lady Oxford's livery.
The Captain was still standing in the attitude of perplexity; only, instead of smoothing his cheek, he had tilted his peruke aside and was scratching his head to ease the labour of his recollections.
He walked once or twice across the room, shifting his peruke from one side of his head to the other in the fluster of his thoughts.
I have purposed to do myself the honor of presenting myself at your house this afternoon, Colonel Dolph, to inquire if you did not desire to have your peruke frisée.
There, at least, I shall have the fashion of my peruke and my speech at first hand.
You don't give your peruke a chance, Jerry, while you frame that ugly phiz in it.
It soon reached its accustomed serenity, and not a lock of the peruke was out of place.
The count's face was as fair and his cheeks as rosy as ever; he wore the same fantastic peruke of his own invention, and his figure was as straight and slender as it had ever been.
Prince Kaunitz had finished his promenade in the powder-room, and having ascertained by means of his mirror that his perukewas in order, he betook himself to the apartments of the Countess Clary, to conduct her to table.
No more will hoops and wigs add allure to the progress of beauty--nor peruke nor smallclothes invest the beau with grandeur.
So called in a deed of trust dated 1766, "William Sewell Peruke Maker," and Elizabeth, his wife.
He wore no peruke and his short hair was black as his heavy brows; he was of a pale complexion naturally, and now his eyes showed dark in a face markedly pale.
The perukebegan its all-conquering career in England, under the Stuarts.
He brought upon the stage a figure "with black eyebrows, a ribbon of an ell long under his chin, a bag-peruke immoderately powdered, and his nose all bedaubed with snuff.
OTT: And she has a peruke that's like a pound of hemp, made up in shoe-threads.
And the little monkey in the flowing white peruketook direction.
A churchwarden in the next pew nodded and nodded, until he nodded his peruke awry, and a child went fast asleep, with its head in its mother's lap.
He was not very finely dressed; but there was a style about his London-made riding suit which his country clothes had lacked, and the peruke upon his head gave him the air of a fine gentleman.
His natural hair had therefore been cut close to his head, the peruke was fitted on, and fell in bushy curls to his shoulders.
Beshrew me if I ever again walk abroad with a peruke at night!
Never was such a figure for showing off coat or vest or sash, or a head upon which a peruke sat with a daintier grace.
But I have a peruke to take to a client who lives hard by Snowe Hill.
His peruke had disappeared, and he wore a little dark wig that looked like his natural hair.
Mr. Goulden took off his peruke in order to be more at his ease and hung it up behind him, and I opened the bottle and we drank some of the good white wine.
With all Goods made use of byPeruke makers, at the lowest prices.
Well might the barbers give the peruke the honour of this signboard, for the profits on that article must have been enormous.
Consequently I had had my own hair cropped, and had purchased a cumbersome full-bottomed peruke of the latest mode.
Elmscott's black peruke was all awry, his cheeks flushed, and his eyes bloodshot and staring.
His peruke came to hand all right; so did the tight inexpressibles; so did the snuff-coloured coat with high velvet collar; so did the buckled shoes.
But the populace, not seeing the consistency of being compelled to take off their hair while the peruke makers wore their own, rose upon them, and cut it off.
The peruke makers, distressed that people wore their own hair, and that foreigners were employed, petitioned the king for redress.
He drove the little girls before him, and followed carrying the peruke in one hand and the cap in the other.
He passed by me insensible of my presence and walked into the room, and as he came into the light I saw that he was holding the ends of hisperuke in his mouth.
At that, however, I bethought me that the father and his daughter were awaiting me downstairs, and so dressed in a hurry, and combing out my peruke to such neatness as I could, I got me down into the hall.
D'Avaux, fingering the black curls of his peruke on his breast.
The King saw him--an unpleasing spectacle of a stout gentleman with peruke awry and a coarsely red face, breathing heavily through his open mouth, with a wet stain of wine under his cheek and over his cravat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peruke" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
