The ribbons could not possibly conceive what the hat could be thinking about.
The hat was saying to the ribbons that it was a fine night, and remarking generally upon the clear outline of the Sierras against the blue-black sky.
She had bright yellow ribbons in her lace cap, and her gown was of the most wonderful merino that ever was seen, with palm-leaves three inches long curling on a crimson ground.
But what was the wild air that came nearer and nearer, until John marched into the house, and came, with ribbons and pipes, to the very door of the room, which was flung open to him?
On this festive occasion three or four hundred persons of every age and condition dance around a well in Sunday best, rigged out in ribbons and with smiling faces.
There is likewise a ribbon manufactory, but the ribbons are very inferior to those of England.
Straw hats are the manufacture of the province; few of them, therefore, but had a straw bonnet, and few of these bonnets were without ribbons or flowers.
They had invariably one or two large trees, which are decorated with ribbons at sunset, as the signal for the dance, which is invariably observed in this part of France.
The badges, stars and ribbons of the knights grand commanders of the two orders are illustrated on Plate III.
In the middle ages it was a common practice for sovereigns and princes to dub each other knights much as they were afterwards, and are now, in the habit of exchanging the stars and ribbons of their orders.
The Dwarf was rewarded with a gold piece, and decorated with so many ribbons that it was hardly possible to see him at all.
Her dainty foot dangled over the carven finial, almost touching the ribbons at Walter's knee with its silver buckled slipper of the mode of Paris.
He had his sword bare in his hand, and seeing her manifest distress, he ran towards her eagerly, his shoulder-ribbons waving as he came.
In autumn and in spring, her little shop at Lonway Four Corners was crowded with chattering and eager girls, choosingribbons and hats, and all deferring to her taste.
But in the hall, two knobbed old canes which used to stand in the corner were hung by purple ribbons from the great antlers on the wall, and would never be taken down again.
We visited Macclesfield, but I forgot its factories, its ribbons and sarcenets, silks and satins and velvets, because of the valiant Leghs.
Nuneaton was as placidly engaged in making hats and ribbons as if the foot of genius had never hallowed its soil, and went its ways, regardless while we peered out at inns and residences mirrored in George Eliot's writings.
Yet though so rough, in June the bullpoll sends up tall slender stalks with graceful feathery heads, reed-like, surrounded with long ribbons of grass.
Ribbons can thus be dyed a bright yellow, but it requires a large quantity of the flowers.
The managers, with favors of blue and white ribbons in their breasts, followed next in order.
Blue ribbons adorned the hem of her simple skirt, and a band of the same colour encircled her shapely, though not noticeably slender, waist.
Her white dressing-gown and all its pretty ribbons and laces were spotlessly fresh.
She refastened her tea gown, tied the streaming azure ribbons of it, patted bows and laces into place, walked the length of the room a time or two to recover her composure, then rang the bell.
Instead of hats they wore 30 bright-colored handkerchiefs, interlaced with gay ribbons and sometimes wreathed with flowers.
It is one of the ribbons of victory and glory that France will always wear across her breast.
And when he held it up to me, with the light shining on the silver, and the black ribbons hanging down, never believe him if I didn't stop squalling, and stretch out my hands with a smile as sweet as sunshine.
He was kneeling up, and holding back some of the muslin and ribbons with one hand, whilst with the other he held out a forelock of his black curls, and she cut it off with the scissors out of the sailor's housewife which she had made for him.
They clapped their hands; and asked for the ribbons and flowers out of her hat.
For in that same moment, Matilda moved her ribbons and kerchief in a hurried way, contriving in so doing, to cover the picture.
Unless she were spoken to she would wear her freakish ribbons at the afternoon session.
I guess my Dutch cut made more show than my ribbonswould have," she whispered.
At the village store she had purchased ribbons of many colors, from which she had made bows or rosettes of every hue, and these she had tacked upon her slippers.
He promised he 'd buy me a bunch of blue ribbons To tie up my bonny brown hair.
Sir Peter looked up, where the widow was shaking the ribbons of her cap at him.
He promised he'd buy me a basket of posies, A garland of lilies, a garland of roses, A little straw hat to set off the blue ribbons That tie up my bonny brown hair.
The gentleman who handled the ribbons was the only one thoroughly awake.
But hard, indeed, must have been the flag-stones to withstand the wear and tear of the endless iron-shod shoes that tramped to and fro these mere ribbons of pavements.
A wind that justifies studding-sails may change, without premonition, to a gale that will make ribbons of top-sails and of storm-sails.
In the streets and in places of public resort in London, colored ribbons are seen only on women's bonnets, and gold and silver signs of distinction on the dresses of lackeys.
The wives were recognized by blue ribbons on their caps, and the widows by white, while the older girls wore pink and the younger ones bright red.
The women and girls wore small, close-fitting white caps, the different-colored ribbons on them distinguishing the various classes, and giving a very pleasing effect to the scene.
Imagine the crooks wreathed with these ribbons and with flowers--the shepherds would go mad with delight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ribbons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
