Standing in front of a glass placed over her mantelpiece, Rigolette was tying under her chin the ribands of a small cap of bordered tulle, ornamented with a light trimming of cherry-coloured riband.
He stayed, first, to inform Susan that it was Rose who tied the ribands on Daisy's head.
What splendid dandies are those, ever smirking, turning out their toes, with broad blue ribands to tie up their crooks and their pigtails, and wonderful gorgeous crimson satin breeches!
Damn their ribands and their garters, Get you to your post and quarters.
Her dress volumed and her ribands rattled and chirruped on the verge of the slope.
The roaring Easter with its shrieks and whistles at her ribands was not favourable to speech.
The rain came down through the London fog like ribands of lead as the butler entered the library with tea, and pulling the heavy curtains shut out the picture of the sombre winter's afternoon.
The engines of the car were running sweetly in a monotonous and drowsy hum, the driver sat motionless in front as they droned through the quiet villages and up and down the long white ribands of the road.
Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks.
And what may lawns, cypruses, and ribands fetch, where gold is so plenty?
They were dressed in a strange attire, ribands pinned upon their clothes, and two pairs of very high stilts lying by their sides.
The deity gave him sure prognostics of success; for upon his sacrificing immediately on landing in Italy near Tarentum, the liver of the animal was found to have on it the figure of a crown[268] of bay with two ribands attached to it.
She generally accompanied the army in a litter, and assisted at the sacrifices in a double purple robe fastened with a clasp, and carrying a spear wreathed with ribands and chaplets.
His horse was decorated as fantastically as its master, and behind him followed two score of lusty fellows decked out in motley liveries of green and yellow and covered with scarves and ribands and laces hung all over with gold.
Scarlet was already running in bright ribands over the whiteness of the bed, Suzee's blood and my own.
He fell forwards, a great hole torn in his forehead, from which a river of blood poured, joining the bright ribands and with them making a sea of crimson.
Rings, buckles, ouches, girdles, and ribands were forbidden them, and the penalty annexed to the infringement of this statute was the forfeiture of the dress or ornament so made or worn.
There are boxes of ribands standing in my shop, which I would sell for one-fourth of the cash I paid for them.
I was four years in the trade, so far as I recollect, before I had any flowers or ribands in stock at all, because I knew from former experience they were a thing which did not pay.
Round his shoulders hung a high-collared satin cape of salmon pink, with long blackribands untied and floating about his body.
One or other of them, and sometimes three together, would let the ball drop, and run to the balcony to gaze upon their gallants, passing up and down in gondolas below; and then they would drop flowers or ribands for tokens.
The traces of martyrdom, it seems, are worn in the other world, as stars and ribands are worn in this.
The ordinary domestic window balcony of Verona is formed by mere ribands of iron, bent into curves as studiously refined as those of a Greek vase, and decorated merely by their own terminations in spiral volutes.
But if we may not put her into marble in rags, may we give her a pretty frock with ribands and flounces to it, and put her into marble in that?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ribands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
