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Example sentences for "sacque"

Lexicographically close words:
sackful; sacking; sackless; sacks; saclike; sacques; sacra; sacrae; sacral; sacram
  1. Emmy Lou in her little sacque and her round hat hadn't an idea, but seeing that she was expected to accept, took Aunt M'randy's unoccupied hand and went.

  2. Minnie, whose wrap is disturbingly nearer a sacque than a coat in its scant nature, takes her place on the horse-block at the curb before Izzy's house, and he and Emmy Lou take places either side of her.

  3. Just here in the conversation, Emmy Lou, miserable and stuffy in a pink sacque over her habitual garb because Aunt Cordelia most emphatically insisted, whooped.

  4. Suppose any of the other children had lifted her sacque and found the locket beneath it!

  5. She shook out her sacque and turned it over and over, looked in her hat, searched all about the corner, and then threw her eyes hastily around the room; all in vain.

  6. She found herself rather warm with the seal-skin sacque she had put on; she let him carry it on his arm while they walked, and then lay it over her shoulders when they sat down.

  7. Alice had left the sofa and got as far as the door, with her hat in her hand and her sacque on her arm.

  8. You ought to see the white lace sacque that he brought me for an engagement present; it's too lovely for any thing.

  9. Not far off, but sideways to it, sat Lady Belamour in a loose sacque of some rich striped silk, in crimson and blue stripes shot with gold threads.

  10. Now you will not come in your riding hood, all frowsed and dusty, but can put on your pretty striped sacque and blue hood that you wore on Sunday, and look the sweet pretty lady you are.

  11. So he dressed, and went to the Assembly Room, arriving just as Lady Betty stepped out of her chair, in a new primrose-coloured sacque and sea-green brocade petticoat.

  12. He comes because he wishes to make use of us, and, for such a beggar, the old sacque is good enough.

  13. She was fully dressed in out-door attire, wearing her bonnet and sacque and muffler.

  14. An astrakhan toque, with a waving red feather, was set daintily on her head, and below the sacque her gown showed magnificent with bows and airy flounces.

  15. Then suddenly she tucked it in her breast, drew her dingy sacque around it tight, caught up her rag bag, and with a scared glance at the windows of Lily's fine home, she ran down the street.

  16. She had buttoned her sacque and gloves, and now went up to the glass.

  17. Doubtless he was comparing her draggled sacque and unpowdered hair with the anticipated splendours of his bride.

  18. But stay--you must put on your sacque and hoop.

  19. It was only her indomitable pride that kept her from taking her hat and sacque and going straight home and to her bed, there to weep her very heart out--aye, weep her very life out, if she could.

  20. The bell which released the girls from the work-room that night had scarcely rung ere Dorothy had on her sacque and sailor hat and was fairly flying down the steps and out into the street.

  21. About the middle of the reign the sacque became the general town fashion, the sacque being so named on account of the back, which fell from the shoulders into wide, loose folds over the hooped petticoat.

  22. The front of the sacque was sometimes open, sometimes made tight in the bodice.

  23. The sacque was gathered at the back in close pleats, which fell open over the skirt part of this dress.

  24. Miss Lucy Cary was glad to see it as she sat by the fire knitting fine white wool into a sacque for a baby.

  25. Miriam rose, threw off the muslin sacque and began to dress.

  26. She was way off the trail in matters of etiquette, but she didn't know what it was to envy and hate the pale faced squaw with the sealskin sacque and the torpid liver, and the high-priced throne of grace.

  27. The body of the sacque is of star stitch (Figure 244).

  28. In warm weather the thick cloaks were discarded for the short cloaks and mantles shaped as the Zouave, or in the short sacque style extending only to the waist.

  29. Whether the chair or my sacque had most admirers I do not know, but I can't imagine how people ever get across the ocean without such consolations on the way.

  30. My little sacque makes me look like 500 angels instead of one, and I am ever so glad of it, and the children were all delighted with their things.

  31. She only folded the scarlet sacque over her bosom, and prepared to follow Storms, breathing heavily, she could not have told why.

  32. Upon a little chintz couch that occupied one side of the room she found the scarlet sacque and a dainty little hat, which Ruth had flung there before going up to her father, after her return from "The Rest.

  33. Ruth tied on her bonnet, and set forth for "The Rest" at once, with the precious letter in her bosom, over which she folded her scarlet sacque with additional caution.

  34. Judith arose, drew her scarlet sacque closer around her, pulled the jaunty little hat over her eyes, and stood in the moonlight waiting for her lover.

  35. In strict seclusion from the young men, and guarded by a gray-haired duenna, across whose threadbare brown sacque she gaily ogles the barytone from Florence, sits a dishevelled little soprano, the daughter of a diva and a journalist.

  36. He was writing, and she put her left hand on his back while with her right she held her sacque slung over her shoulder by the loop, and leaned forward with a wandering eye on the papers that strewed the table.

  37. Just at this time he had set his heart on her having a certain sacque which they had noticed in a certain window one day when they were on Washington Street together.

  38. He surprised her a week later by bringing the sacque home to her, and he surprised himself with a seal-skin cap which he had long coveted: it was coming winter, now, and for half a dozen days of the season he would really need the cap.

  39. When he came home late at night, he found the sacque where she had dropped it, and with a curse he picked it up and hung it on the hat-rack in the hall.

  40. The sacque still lay on the floor at his feet; he pulled his chair a little forward and put his feet on it.

  41. The white sacque was tied with rose colored ribbons, and with her fluffy, curly hair she looked like an old baby.

  42. Put that big kitchen sacque over your dress, and button the sleeves around your wrists.

  43. The cloth sacque could not have been made for less than twelve dollars.

  44. But see here, Jerkin," said Pinky: "that sacque is worth twice the money.

  45. I wasn't confronted by just a resemblance--it was the SAME woman holding together the same old sacque at her throat and looking at me with the same yellow eyes as if she had never seen me before on earth.

  46. Instantly the door opened and there stood Mrs. Kannon, clutching her sacque together at the throat and gorgonizing him with her opaque, yellow eyes.

  47. One hand held together at her throat a buttonless flannel dressing sacque whose lines had been cut by no tape or butterick known to mortal woman.

  48. Visions of two halves of Mrs. Kannon appearing respectively and simultaneously at the two entrances, each clutching at a side of an open, flapping sacque that could never meet, overpowered him.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.