For brushes, in oils try to acquire the use of hog-hair brushes if you would make effective and vigorous work; sables and soft brushes are sure to tempt you, being so much pleasanter to a beginner.
In water-colour we require to use sables for our washes--that is, if it is water-colour and not opaque painting we are attempting.
Her jewels are a proverb, her costumes beggar description, her sableswould do credit to an empress.
And King Fisherman lay on a bed hung on cords whereof the stavs were of ivory; and therein was a mattress of straw whereon he lay, and above a coverlid of sables whereof the cloth was right rich.
The sables I did myself the honour to wear to his lordship's memory, were not the "mockery of woe.
Her muff of sablesas big and soft as a pillow--she could easily have buried her arms in it to the shoulder.
Do you mean that awfully good-looking man with the white hair and the royal-princess-effect in sables and eyes like Trilby's?
They came back to the "office" with me, the goddess in sables taking the solitary chair, while her mate sat down on the edge of my little table, stretching out before him legs clad in cloth of a fineness I had forgotten could exist.
The sables of the Tigil and Ouka are counted the best in Kamtschatka; and a pair of these sometimes sell for thirty roubles (five pounds sterling).
But now there's nothing; the sables have run away, and there isn't much fish.
It was somewhat remarkable that the most vivid impression which she retained of the rather exciting series of scenes in which she had participated, was that Mrs. Mowbray's sables were incomparably the finest that she had ever seen.
There go the gold and the silver, the sables and ermines.
Next day Vizard had his mother's sables taken out and aired, and drove Mademoiselle Klosking into Taddington in an open carriage.
You place everything at her disposal; such a physician and nurse as no queen can command; a choir to sing to her; royal sables to keep the wind from her, and ladies to wait on her.
He observed, and continued: "And it seems these sables are known throughout the county.
It might be objected that sables cannot be supposed to have been obtained from the last-named; but this is doubtless not to be taken too literally.
Probably there is here a confusion of various statements; the ideas about the unhealthy bog-lands are doubtless connected with northern Russia, and the trade in sables can scarcely be referred to the Swedes on the Baltic.
They'll pass in story For sinners half refined in Purgatory, Or parboiled lobsters, where there jointly rules The fading sables and the coming gules.
As precious sables sometimes interlace A wretched serge or grogram cassock case.
Why I've been to the Tsar's banquet; there was a whole lot of us beasts there, and of sables and ermines no end.
Why, all the wild beasts were there, and as for the sables and ermines there was no end to them!
If ye will bring together forty forties of your sables and martens a dinner shall be got ready for the whole lot of you.
The next day the sables and the martens came together, and the fox led them to Tsar Ogon, made obeisance to him on behalf of his future son-in-law, and presented him with the forty forties of sables and martens.
Camilla let her sables slip from her shoulders on to her arms.
As he released her hand she pulled her sables about her and prepared to go.
It is a register of funerals--a book which seems to require a suit of sables for its proper reading.
Mrs. von Hoffmann, flinging a mass of rich sables about her throat, began to work on the fingers of her white gloves.
She kissed her cousin, picked Julia's big muff from a chair, and pressed the soft sables for a moment to her face.
The rich Tartars are clothed in sables and ermines, and other rich furs, and in cloth of gold, and all their apparel and furniture is very costly.
So wept Aurelia, till the destined youth Stepp'd in, with his receipt for making smiles, And blanching sables into bridal bloom.
The lion, the elephant, and the hippopotamus find their counterpart in the bear, the walrus, and the seal, without including the sables and the foxes.
The bodies of the ermines were but a mouthful for one of the dogs, while the sables and martens gave them a mouthful all round.
The black foxes were worth from fifty to a hundred roubles, the sables from thirty to fifty, the martens some ten roubles less; the other skins were worth from fifteen to thirty roubles.
Ermines were found in considerable numbers, and in the first week four fine sables were killed, as well as two martens and a bear; the latter was specially prized.
The first terminates at the intersection of red sand rock at la Point des Grande Sables with the beginning of the horizontal strata of the Pictured Rocks.
The chiefs, after their departure, sent to our encampment a present of fresh sturgeon, a species which is caught abundantly in the aux Sables at this time, for which returns were made of such articles as were most acceptable to them.
A few miles after leaving River aux Sables, the Highlands ofSables present themselves at a short distance back from the shore.
Down the middle of the garden path came the two truants, Susan in her sables and Mr. Wyse close beside her with his coat-collar turned up.
She thought of calling on Mr. Wyse and asking for the loan of a book, so that she would see whether the sables were in the hall, but even then she would not really be much further on.
Susan had taken her sables off: it was as if she intended remaining there for ever, or at least for tea.
It stopped at her house, and she caught a glimpse ofsables within.
The gift of a set of Russian sables from Hausberg and the news that her investments were prospering failed to rouse her from the indifference with which she was regarding life.
No address out of Mayfair would suit her, and no furs less expensive than sables would become her fair beauty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
