He was intimate with every detail of organ construction; he not only tuned but quilled his own harpsichords, and, as we shall see later, he invented new instruments.
Madame Peinot: her cunning right hand, with all its cunning, ne'er quilledso exquisitely.
Muslin or bobbinet collars, to be worn in the ever-damp sea-air, should have no other trimming than an edging sewed on plain; as quilled or pleated frills lose their stiffening immediately.
Quilled or fluted cap-borders soon become limp and formless with the damp; so also do gauze or glace ribbons.
Every bit of her quilled and crimped hear-gear and neckwear, once as white as snow, was ruined.
There is a remarkable example of the typical pass-glas at South Kensington: it is divided into twelve zones by quilled threadings of glass.
Of more interest is the ruder glass, often decorated with a profusion of applique strips, quilled and worked up with the pincers.
Vase of olive-green glass, with two handles, each ending in quilled attachments.
The same author gives an illustration of a fine posset-pot with quilled handles, preserved at Chastleton.
Lutea, a quilled yellow, is also a grand bouquet flower.
The Quilled Asters are quite distinct in character, the petals consisting of tubes or quills with outer blossom petals slightly reflexed.
On the other hand the Germans have sought to produce fine flowers with tubular petals, and the quilled are therefore called German Asters.
This is the double crimson or pink Daisy, having its florets piped or quilled (see Fig.
The Germans were, perhaps, the first to improve the Asters, and the type most admired and sought fifty years ago was the full-quilled varieties.
Now, however, the informal type replaces the stiff, formal quilled flowers of that period.
Once re-established there, she answered no more questions, but with truly aristocratic composure resumed her interrupted task of stuffing a costly bonnet of embroidered cambric and quilled lace with sand.
She shunned the giving or receiving of caresses as a rule but this morning she stooped and kissed the red-veined, wrinkled cheek within Janellan's white-quilled cap-border.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quilled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doubled; flexible; fluted; folded; gathered; plaited; pleated; pliable; plicate; tucked
