Look at the price of food, and me waiting in queues half the day to get it for you.
To the ordinaryqueues we now have to add processions of conscientious disgorgers patriotically evading prosecution.
The queueshave disappeared, supplies are adequate, and there are no complaints of class-favouritism.
The hair is generally allowed to grow long, and to flow loosely over the shoulders; sometimes it is cut straight over the forehead, and among the Utahs of New Mexico it is plaited into two long queues by the men, and worn short by the women.
Many of the men do up the hair in queues with worsted ribbons, with heavy tassels that hang below the waist.
The men wear queues and the women do up their hair.
I see backs by the hundreds with long queueshanging over them.
Ignoble scoundrels with long queues circulate amongst the crowd, offering robes of ermine or blue-fox, or admirable sables for a few piasters, in their eagerness to be rid of stolen goods.
From day to day the number of silk gowns, blue cotton gowns, slanting eyes, and queues increases.
They made long silent queues at the recruiting offices.
And the white policeman assured me that when the Chinese still wore queues a policeman raided a den and tied the queues of fifteen Chinese together and with these as reins drove them to prison.
The men were in cotton garments and conical hats, and their queues of hair hung like ships pennants in a dead calm, or the tails of a group of scared dogs.
Men with their lower garments rolled as high as possible, or altogether discarded, walk about in perfect nonchalance; their queues hanging down their backs seem designed as rudders to steer the wearers across the stream.
But fancy what effect this Thyestes Repast and trampling on the National Cockade, must have had in the Salle des Menus; in the famishing Bakers'-queues at Paris!
But indeed do not these long-flowing hair-queues of a Jeunesse Doree in semi-military costume betoken, unconsciously, another still more important tendency?
And now from six o'clock, this Monday morning, one perceives the Baker's Queues unusually expanded, angrily agitating themselves.
Only by seizing their queues could we drag them away at all, but even then before we could mount they would renew their grasp.
One can never forget the throngs of Chinese men in gowns and queues (the wives wear the trousers over here!
At the funeral feast there were consumed three queues of the best wine in the cellars, valued at 2s.
Of all the queues which any man or any nation ever gave to another, the Chinese have supplied us with the most queue-rious.
Others know that queues have only been worn by the Chinese for about two hundred and fifty years, and that they were imposed as a badge of conquest by the Manchu-Tartars, the present rulers of China.
False queues are to be seen hanging in the streets for sale.
His subjects were extremely quarrelsome, always pulling one another's queues or stealing fruit, umbrellas, and silver polish.
Outside the Citadel of Arras, built by Vauban under Louis XIV, there were long queues of wounded men taking their turn to the surgeons who were working in a deep crypt with a high-vaulted roof.
These queues form at three o'clock in the morning, one o'clock and at midnight, increasing from hour to hour.
At length, after many, many millions of people were killed, queues carried the day, and the rebels were conquered.
Illustration] In many of their customs the people of China follow their forefathers of more than a thousand years ago, but queues may be called a new fashion, having only been worn about two hundred and fifty years.
In southern China, children's queues are made bright and jaunty with crimson silk.
Queues vary in length, but grown men often wear them hanging nearly to their shoes, the upper part of the braid being of hair, and the lower part of black silk cord, which is tied in a tassel at the end.
Men stood in queues outside the quartermaster's stores, to receive gas masks, first field dressings, identification discs, and such things.
Men from the other queues looked round, and one or two whistled slyly beneath their breath, but her own queue adopted her protectingly, and moved her up to their head, against the counter.
Instantly she was among three or four hundred men, who stood with their backs to her, in queuesup the long wooden hall.
We formed ourselves into queues as we pleased, drew our numbers, and then presented ourselves at the bureaux, ordered our magazines, and took our cyclopædias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "queues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
