Down the middle a line of benches had been drawn up, on which there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.
There was a queue of people waiting for their mail, extending out at the door, and far down the sidewalk.
It is worn in a queue or pigtail fashion as it is commonly styled.
He was dressed in the Chinese fashion with the traditional queue hanging down behind.
London; and as many pounds sterling as all these expences amount to upon a queue of wine, just so many French sols must be charged to the price of every bottle.
The carriage of a queue of wine from Dijon to Dunkirk, or to any frontier town near England, costs an hundred livres, something more than four sols a bottle; but if sent in the bottle, the carriage will be just double.
This allusion to Tarleton's wound was too much for the gallant captain, and again elevating the point of his queue toward the ceiling, but this time without his hand to his heart, he left the room with a face somewhat redder than his uniform.
He saw her go down the steps and take her place in the queue of people purchasing tickets, and he walked across to the bookstall and stood there until she had obtained her ticket.
V He ate his meal in great haste, and then hurried back to the theatre where a queue of people had already formed outside the entrance to the pit.
The report of the bailli was that a queue of old French wine being worth about 20 livres, or 16s.
A little later the Marquis de Senneterre received a queue of wine to withdraw his troops from the town.
The queue was therefore about ninety-six gallons at Reims, but at Epernay not more than eighty-five gallons.
During the winter the cold was so intense that wine froze not only in the cellars, but at table close to the fire, and by the ensuing spring it had grown so scarce that the veriest rubbish fetched 80 livres the queue at Reims.
The editor cut off his own queue as an example and is now encouraged by the fact that the soldiers are gradually adopting a like course.
So saying, he whirled his sword and dealt a blow that would have decapitated the varlet, but that the pitying steel struck short and shaved the queue forever from his crown.
By the queuehe grasped a dripping, half-naked native, whom he dragged after him to the beach.
Reaching over Chunky very cautiously, he lifted the long black queue of the guide, held it for a moment, then softly dropped it across the face of the sleeping, snoring Stacy.
The Honorable Woo Smith's queue got on Stacy's face and Stacy thought it was a snake.
The guide's queue bobbed vigorously, as he pointed to a ridge on the other side of the canyon.
The Oriental was bowing and scraping, his queue animatedly bobbing up and down.
Hippy waited, then began slowly drawing the queue over Stacy's face.
The line lengthened and those at the end of the queue began to grow restive at the delay.
A queue of automobiles before the place testified, however, to the prosperity of Madame Cassandra, as they entered the bronze grilled plate glass door and turned on the first floor toward the home of the Adept.
A Chinaman was passing by, with placid face, folded arms and long queue flopping in the wind.
Nick had settled the matter of the Chinaman's queue on his last visit to Las Plumas, two weeks before, but not to his entire satisfaction.
His queuewas coiled like a snake around his neck, his hatchet thrust into his belt.
His queue had become unbound for half its length, and he plaited it anew, winking his eyes thoughtfully.
Every muscle, every line of his countenance, is acted upon by affectation and grimace, and his queue bears some resemblance to an ear-trumpet.
In his grasp, was the oily, thick queueof a coolie.
She stepped back, not a little appalled, and swept him from queue to sandal with a look that was not the heartiest of receptions.
He studied this intently, and at length he made out the long, black queue of the Chinese girl who had stared at him in such bewitching fashion a little earlier in the day.
The hair is worn long, and is done up in a great queue that falls down behind.
The queue is frequently twisted up in a knot on the back of the head--en castanna--as Maurelle calls it.
The men tied the hair up in a stiff queue with a cotton band, which was at times arranged so as to rise straight over the crown of the head.
I wonder how far the queuewill reach," he added reflectively.
Her eyes for a moment left those of her antagonist and took in the queue which, by now, overflowed the path into the roadway.
The queue seemed hypnotised by the overwhelming personality of the big man.
The breastplate is globular in form, and flattened upon the right side to allow of the queue (Fig.
The front portion of the queue has another hook turned upwards, in which the lance rested, and behind which it was gripped by the hand.
I read a good deal of concern in that glance--more concern, in fact, than the old headgear and the attached queue called for.
With that Matt jerked the hat and queue out of the locker and hurled them across the room.
The slouch hat and the false queue were kicked into one corner.
I thought you had a fight with him, Matt, and that, during the scuffle, his old slouch hat came off, and the queue along with it.
He had picked up the slouch hat and the attached queue and placed them on his head.
This La Queue was seigneur of the place of which he bore the name, distant six leagues from Versailles, and as much from Dreux.
Bontems, the confidential valet of the King, had brought about the marriage without declaring the names of the father or the mother of the girl; but La Queue knew it, and promised himself a fortune.
The wife of La Queue lived very melancholily for twenty years in her village, never left it, and scarcely ever went abroad for fear of betraying herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "queue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
