Fastened to a riband round his neck, and carefully concealed beneath his raiment, was a small morocco leather case, containing the sealed letter left him, with such mysterious instructions, by Thomas Armstrong.
You may therefore conceive my astonishment when on my arrival at my house, I discovered a letter in a case fastened to a riband beneath your garments, as I helped to undress you.
Forilland had done for a previous generation of Americans, when Iroquois snatched the Blue Riband of the Turf from the English and bore it across the Atlantic, Ikey meant to do some day at Liverpool.
Very deliberately he tied the riband of his cap over the peak while the eyes of thousands watched him.
Well, as I swung round into the cutting I nearly ran into a chap on a chestnut--quite the Corinthian, with a bit o red riband stuck on his stomach.
That little bit of riband once lay upon the heart of Napoleon.
A true man, and a born fighter, the blue and white riband for St. Vincent at his breast.
Half-an-hour of walking and talking brought them to the spot in the valley where the grass riband widened and led down to the front of the house.
The door was ajar, and a riband of bright firelight fell over the ground without.
But now the Papists resolved to regard the placing of a few knots of orange riband on this equestrian figure as a matter of personal offence, and prohibited the decoration.
Stain my greenriband blue,' cries out the gallant knight, 'and the fountain of honour will have a fast and faithful servant.
The major must have examined the basket by this time," she cried, her cheek rivalling the tint of a riband it leaned against, on the back of the chair.
Maud stole a glance at her sister, while the latter was speaking, from under her cap, and her cheeks now fairly put the riband to shame; but her smile was still saucy and wilful.
And soon the circle formed a nucleus, the nucleus of a nebula, so to say, around which the endless riband of fire began to coil itself.
The vast train of little flames, marching in double file, threw a riband of light across the darkness.
Three tiny threads of water, each accompanied by its riband of verdant grasses, meander downwards some few yards, and then unite and form a little stream.
So particular were they in fumigating everything susceptible of infection, that I was obliged to leave there a black riband which I wore round my neck as a guard to my watch.
The old Count colored slightly as he gave a glance at theriband and star which he wore.
Casting a look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting with its luminous secret, I was almost doubting to which of the two chances I should commit myself, when I felt the riband in my hand pulled softly at the other extremity.
Her complexion was ruddy brown; her bright hair, gathered in a knot behind, rebelled against the black riband that bound it, and fell behind her ears in crispy waves.
A thin white riband of vapour was just visible against the blue sky, floating above the hills to the west.
Ahead the white riband of river led into a wilderness of rocks and stunted trees, but there was no sign of life in all the picture, and everything was very still.
He recollected the precise piece of calico from which Mrs. Jones bought her last new dress, and the identical bolt of riband from which Mrs. Smith trimmed her "Sunday bonnet.
This case contained a roll of letters and other documents, tied round with a piece of riband so faded that it was impossible to determine what its colour might have originally been.
It is the Blue Riband of the Turf,' he slowly repeated to himself; and, sitting down at a table, buried himself in a folio of statistics.
It may be further observed, that the fringes which the Jews wore upon their garments, had on them a riband of blue or purple.
The Jews were very curious about the colour and the dying of it, that it should be a colour that would hold and not change, and that the riband be died on purpose for that use.
He had scarcely rolled up his riband with undissembled indignation, when dinner was announced.
The shadows got longer, but nothing moved on the road that ran like a white riband across the fields until it vanished among the trees at Ashness.
He wore a plain red sash, with no other touch of color except a bit of riband on his breast.
The shrievalty of the County Palatine has always been esteemed the blue riband of shrievalties.
Lady Biddy about the waist, while with the other he essays to untie the riband which hides her charms from view.
Mr. Biggs now holds aloft upon the point of his stick the black mask of Master Tom Kidde, which the rogue had dropped when he was hit, and which had caught and hung by its riband from that moment to this, unseen by Lady Peg.
Her Majesty wears a royal mantle and theriband of the Garter, like her compeers; behind her rise the towers of Windsor.
Over her pink and silver she wore the riband and order of the Garter, with the George appended.
By the lustre reflected from every part of the earth and from the wide domical scoop above it, he saw that the tree was sliced down the whole length of its tall, straight stem, a huge riband of bark being apparently flung off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riband" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cordon; decoration; order; ornament; ribbon; star
