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Example sentences for "reticule"

Lexicographically close words:
reticular; reticulate; reticulated; reticulation; reticulations; reticules; reticulum; retied; retina; retinae
  1. Then call a gentleman to carry the reticule to the ladies, as they sit, from which each lady is to draw one ticket, and to preserve it unopened.

  2. She was about to open the reticule again, when the porter exclaimed: "I see it!

  3. Into the house popped Miss Panney, and in a very short time returned, carrying with her an umbrella and a large reticule made of brown plush, and adorned with her monogram in yellow.

  4. She seated herself in her favorite rocking-chair; she laid her fan on the table near her and her reticule by it, and she pushed back from her shoulders a little India shawl.

  5. The apparatus consists of a small achromatic objective placed at the extremity of the tube of a microscope, in which there is a divided screen that receives the enlarged image of the reticule fixed upon the needle.

  6. Upon this reticule are projected the rays (condensed by a powerful lens) that come from a luminous source placed behind the balance.

  7. She opened her reticule and showed a pretty ivory-handled pistol.

  8. Anna Paluda turned at the sound of the wheels on the gravel, and Edward saw that she thrust a paper hurriedly into the black silk reticule hanging by a cord from her waist.

  9. Then from the reticule she took the letter she had been reading when Edward had come upon her in the grounds.

  10. Miss Orrin put her hand into a trim little reticule which was attached to her waist, and drew out a single sheet of paper, on which was written in a sprawling hand: "H.

  11. Now, the taking of a purse out of a lady's reticule does not present much confusion as a legal proposition.

  12. Attired in the light, gauzy material of the tropics, it only remained for her to adjust her hat and to catch up the reticule containing a few indispensable articles.

  13. Once more they bent their douce-brown hats together over the reticule and looked timidly in on the object of their shames and fears.

  14. Julia's reticule had been left on a seat under a tree; the witness saw Victor open it, and take out a letter.

  15. It appears that the articles of bijouterie found in Julia's reticule had been missed from the chamber of Mlle Antoinette Meurien the very morning after Julia visited Victor's father at the château.

  16. She strove earnestly to show them more of it than the school-books told; she aimed higher than mere correctness in the exercises, those anxious, careful, or heedless scribblings with which her reticule was crammed.

  17. To me it appears clear that somebody, strongly resembling him, stole Mademoiselle Stangerson's reticule and in that letter, had demanded of her something which she had not sent him.

  18. Remember that Mademoiselle Stangerson lost her reticule containing the key with the brass head while she was in his company.

  19. There he got possession of the reticule which she lost, or left behind.

  20. The fact that Monsieur Darzac was with her in the Grands Magasins de la Louvre when the reticule disappeared could not pass unnoticed, and, it must be said, strongly awakened our interest.

  21. In that reticule was a key with a brass head.

  22. Neither Monsieur Stangerson nor Daddy Jacques had seen it for several days, but a few hours later we learned from Mademoiselle Stangerson herself that the reticule had either been stolen from her, or she had lost it.

  23. If you remember your Latin, you will know that reticule comes from reticulus, a net.

  24. He continued: "The reticule will have to be finished in town.

  25. Of course the affair of the reticule soon became public property.

  26. She took from her reticule a morsel of sweet-cake; for that repository was never destitute of something available to throw to the chickens, young ducks, or sparrows.

  27. She fumbled in her reticule and produced the packets.

  28. The cloak, hitching for a moment on the ladder's side, revealed a beaded reticule that hung from her waist, and clinked as she descended.

  29. Marise could tell that by the aspect of the old woman as she entered the kitchen that morning, her reticule bag bulging out with whatever mysterious provisions Touclé took with her.

  30. She got up to her feet, shifted her reticule from one hand to the other, and without a backward look trudged slowly down the dusty road, a stooped, shabby, feeble old figure.

  31. So I simply decided to put the thing carefully away in the bottom of my reticule in case it was ever needed.

  32. Putting the firearm into my reticule I was about to descend when the sight of a familiar figure standing on the front deck of the vessel, his face sharply outlined against the light, arrested my action and my attention.

  33. I therefore put on a shade hat and a light wrap, packed my fancywork into my knitting bag and making sure that my working specs were in my reticule I set forth into the mildly sunlit avenue.

  34. Fortunately it is my habit always to carry a dose of aromatic spirits of ammonia in my reticule in case of emergency, and at length an emergency had arisen.

  35. The boy stopped in his tracks and waited quite as promptly as if it were a custom with him, while I delved into the depths of my reticule and produced six nice brown sugar cookies, which I presented.

  36. I took a tentative perch on the very edge of my magnificent seat, clasping my reticule firmly and feeling as though I had suddenly discovered myself in the midst of a dream which refused the half-conscious mind the acknowledgment of unreality.

  37. He slipped the weapon into my reticule with an amazingly swift gesture, and before I could say "jiffy" he was gone in the direction of the casino.

  38. Very well," I agreed, gathering up my reticule and taking up the house-telephone receiver.

  39. So the dame went to him as he had bidden her to do, and the little man filled her reticule with black coals from the hearth.

  40. Then she filled her reticule with a parcel of simples, in case they should be needed.

  41. There was no address, nor did the reticule contain any indication of an address.

  42. She then told of the finding of the reticule and the cards contained therein.

  43. Now, there was something almost tangible in what Hilda had learnt about Gilda Tempest, her uncle, and the reticule that had been picked up in the conservatory.

  44. A week or more after the disappearance, a maid brought to Raife's mother a reticule which had been picked up in the conservatory in Mayfair.

  45. She came to the point at once, producing the reticule and telling all she knew about "the other woman.

  46. So little Jack Rabbit promised, and Mrs. Rabbit kissed him twice and took her parasol and her reticule and a can of berries, and started.

  47. Fitzroy had often noticed and admired, among the decorations of Mary's dress, a beautiful reticule of white embroidered satin.

  48. She demanded her reticule from Matthew, who had carried it since it fell.

  49. Then he observed that the hand that carried her reticule was making strange purposeless curves in the air, and her rosy face went the colour of cream, as though it had been painted with one stroke of an unseen brush.

  50. When Sophia went out at about eleven o'clock in the morning with her reticule to buy, the street was littered with women who had gone out with reticules to buy.

  51. After shaking hands with us, she took the seat offered, and nervously drew from her reticule a handsomely inlaid case, which she opened and handed to us.

  52. After dinner we saw her reseated in the stage, and the black silk reticule containing the picture was upon her lap as the stage carried her homeward.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reticule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arabesque; bag; basketwork; cancellation; filigree; fret; fretwork; grate; grating; grid; gridiron; grille; hatching; lace; lacing; lattice; mesh; meshes; net; netting; network; plexus; pocket; pouch; riddle; screen; sieve; texture; tissue; tracery; trellis; wattle; weave; weaving; web; weft