Their pigtails were rolled up and tucked into the crown of these caps--or, more correctly, hats.
They tied them together four by four by their pigtails and then shot them.
Why, there's one of our soldiers in the steerage with seventeen of their pigtails with the scalps still fastened to them as trophies!
When I arrived in New York I made a deal with a manufacturer of hair mattresses and sold out that lot of pigtails for a handsome sum.
Of course, I felt disappointed in having to lose the rats in that manner, but I decided that it should not be a loss, and straightway I began shaving the pigtails from the Chinamen's heads.
They do be pigtails on th' Dootch a fut long in the eel-skin.
And in our lives there is nothing fairer and more joyful to look back upon than those same little pigtails and pinafores.
When they told her sharply that the scissors were very delicate and she was instantly to take them out of her hair, she tugged them out in a silence that was itself impertinent, and pinned up her pigtails with their buttonhook instead.
When they discovered this they hid them, and she, not finding any, having come to the end of her own, lost no time in irresolution but picked up their nail-scissors and pinned up her pigtails with that.
For one awful instant she stood there in her nightgown, like some bird of judgment poised for dreadful flight, her eyes flaming, her knotted pigtails bristling on the top of her head.
Pomerania, reflected Edith as she tied up their pigtails with the ribbons handed to her for that purpose, used to be in Germany when she went to school, and no doubt still was.
He set to work to induce Chinese men to wear pigtails and Chinese women to have big feet.
After a time a statesmanlike compromise was arranged: pigtails were adopted but big feet were rejected; the new absurdity was accepted and the old one retained.
The Nantucket of colonial times was not more like the present than sailors in pigtailsand high-crowned hats are like the close-cropped, wide-trowsered tars of to-day.
It has been suggested that these wearers of pigtails were Mongolians.
It is suggestive, therefore, to find that on the stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad, the mountaineers who are conquered by that battle lord wear pigtails also.
A terrible time was it for hair-dressers, who then carried on a thriving business, when pigtails and hair-powder were abolished at one fell swoop.
This, we said, was the last of the pigtails seen in Liverpool society.
Their heads were covered with knotted handkerchiefs of red, black, or yellow cotton, beneath which their pigtails were coiled up out of sight.
Tearing across the yard that divided the Lodge from the ranch orchard came a round, chubby girl, with her blond pigtails flying straight out behind her and her cheeks a bright red from excitement.
Frieda walked out in the yard facing her audience, her long blondpigtails quivering with the importance of her position, and her turquoise eyes shining with interest.
I do not think these pigtails are used as ornaments by the Roro and Mekeo people, though Dr.
These pigtails are sometimes worn hanging in clusters of several tails.
Their brown backs glistened with sweat in the bright sunshine, and between their belts and the loose black turbans, under which their pigtails were gathered up, an ideal two-feet target presented itself.
Can't you see me--me in my pigtails and pinafore, dancing!
There was Bab, hanging over the gate, waiting in her pigtails to wave to him.
You remember you told me then when you were a little girl, a kid in pigtails and pinafores, you used to dance by yourself to the music of an unseen orchestra there all alone in Mrs. Tilney's kitchen.
The corners of her lips drew down pitifully, and suddenly she slipped from her chair, and running to him threw her arms around his neck and buried her averted face, revealing two forlorn little flaxen pigtails devoid of ribbons.
Most of the men round the table were in semi-European dress, their pigtails curled up under billy-cock hats.
Ping Wang waited until his friends were asleep, and then, having satisfied himself that their pigtails were not slipping off, and that there was nothing about their appearance to attract attention, he lay down beside them.
They are,' Ping Wang answered gravely, and when they had gone a little nearer, all three could see clearly the heads of six Chinamen hanging by their pigtails from six tall canes.
For they had been dragged together and their pigtails lashed into a tight knot, a process admirably suited to the object in hand--to render them perfectly helpless; and their aspect certainly did not excite my anger.
Make him do up some of our lads with pigtails made of blackened oakum, and in duck-frocks they'd do at a distance.
Let the men go on as before up aloft, and let the rest of the men show their white heads and pigtails at the bulwarks as if they were wondering who the strangers were.
There were thousands of those pigtails sticking up straight in the air all over the fields.
Only the tea-bushes didn't help them much, for they were so frightened that their little pigtails rose straight up in the air like new shoots growing out of the bushes.
And her frizzy pigtails swished around with her arms--just like the sails of a windmill that had suddenly gone mad.
To think that the little Zette in pigtailsand short check skirt should have grown into this beautiful woman!
One of the little girls inpigtails was holding him, while Miss Anne administered the feeding-bottle.
Pigtails are the rule in this establishment, and pigtails you must wear so long as you are within its walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigtails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
