The pongee silk blouse, page 80, is a good standard for service and artistic merit.
The pongee silk vest was designed for a tailored coat.
The lining of the jacket, page 121, is a beautiful piece of stick tying on pongee silk.
With a heightened color she glanced from Billie's and Elinor's neat skirts and pongee blouses to her own faded calico dress.
Nancy, minus her narrow velveteen skirt, was really a beguiling figure in blue pongee knickerbockers.
Lucy said you ruined your blue pongeewith some horrid old chemical.
Always quick of action, it did not take her long, once she had gained her room, to discard the unlucky blue pongee gown for one of pink linen.
Alas for the pretty gown of delft blue pongee which she had donned with girlish satisfaction at luncheon time.
I think I'll wear the blue pongee to-day, Mathilde," she said.
The decision for the blue pongee was the culmination of a struggle begun with the opening of her eyes that morning.
I saw a very widepongee silk the other day that would be just about the right shade, if it could be put on like wall-paper," said Ethel Blue.
But even if you didn't like that idea," she went on, "I think the pongee silk alone would be beautiful.
Was that girl with the loud voice and the pongee suit his cousin?
She thought he had looked at her more than casually; and, as she settled herself in the seat, she glanced down at her pongee travelling-suit consciously, feeling that he could but have thought she looked well.
From under herpongee parasol she looked longingly up the road and down for her horses, but for a while no horses came.
He wore a loosely cut suit of pongee silk, the collar of the shirt flowing open, and a blue scarf knotted at the throat.
He wears pongee coats and red ties, and has his hair long, and--well, you never saw women act so about anything or anybody!
Harriet offered, placatingly, as she got into the front seat, and tucked the pongee robe snugly about the saffron-coloured gown.
How well I remember the afternoon when I sat down confidingly on the freshly-furbished porch rail in my best pongee dress.
Out of it stepped a small, golden-haired young woman whose smart pongee traveling coat and bulging leather bag proclaimed that she had come from afar.
There was a burned-out look in his eyes, and his wrinkled pongee suit hung limp from stooping shoulders.
Hervey made a quick inspection of Tom's pongee shirt, but all he saw there was the front with buttons gone and the brown chest showing.
He wore a pongee shirt, this being a sort of compromise between a shirt and nothing at all.
When she served the dinner half an hour later, it was in a light-green pongee that seemed to West a triumph of the dressmaker's art.
He gazed at her exquisitepongee gown, her costly hat, the lace coat she carried upon her arm, and frowned.
She had on the dress which he loved so much, a silver-grey merino skirt and jacket, with a blouse of white pongee silk showing in front.
I find that the marks on that fatal bullet correspond precisely with those on the bullet fired through the pongee coat.
Now I have here a piece ofpongee silk, cut from a woman's automobile-coat.
I am not aware that public personages clothe their limbs in Pongee silk.
She pushed the pongee coat, which was carefully folded across the back of a chair, a little aside and, seating herself before the mirror, reached to take the scarf and exposed a folded paper on the dresser.
So saying, Billie calmly slipped off her corduroy skirt and coat, revealing herself in pongee bloomers and a pongee blouse.
But she pulled off the wrap with the recklessness of a young person who has something far more interesting on hand than pongee coats, and flung it in the road where it was rescued by Miss Campbell.
We must keep it a dead secret from Mr. Warner," declared Jack, "for the first thing you know he will bob up serenely with that ridiculous helmet of his and that pongee coat.
But behind the pongee and the talc, for once our features could flaunt themselves on an equality with hers.
They wear suits of white linen or pongee with soft shirts, and the solar topi, or pith helmet, which is a necessity in summer and a great comfort at other seasons.
The men dress in white linen or pongee trousers, with coat of dark woolen or alpaca; they like foreign shirts and collars, but their headgear is the same as that used by the refugees from Persia over three hundred years ago.
And when he stepped ashore in spotless yellow pongee silk suit and great sun-helmet, he was somebody.
He was conscious that the simplicity of her pongee gown loaned itself to an almost barbaric freedom of carriage with the same readiness as do the draperies of the Winged Victory.
Normally, different colored silk pongee shirts, which are pretty rare, you know, for the heat, or what appeared to be pongee material.
There were times when his mood of gentle sorrow was so like mine that I wondered if he, too, knew a grey pongee skirt.
Then I knew that it was the second time I had lifted a parasol from the ground for the lady of the grey pongee and did not see her face; but this time I placed it in her own hand; for my head bore no shame upon it now.
The edge of that beautiful grey pongee skirt came upon the lid of my lowered eyelid like a cool shadow over hot sand.
American trousers; so that I knew the pongeelady had not observed me of herself.
At twenty, when one is something of a poet--No: it is sufficient to see a grey pongee skirt!
How often among those gay people did I find myself sadly dreaming of that grey pongee skirt and the beautiful heart that had understood!
Just as he was holding the little pongee wrap, and Dorothy was laughing up at him from under the roses on her hat, he saw Nancy, going out between two older women.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pongee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
