Is it any wonder that the American boy is bewildered, standing there under the great banian tree with a Malay in sarong and kris by his side, singing with his syrah-stained lips the glorious promises of the Koran?
With a half-uttered sigh she drew off her sandals and tucked them carefully beneath the silver zone that held her sarong in place.
He nodded his head, and drew from the pouch in the knot in his sarong a few broken fragments of areca nut.
She showed no interest in the arranging of her glossy black hair with jewelled pins and chumpaka flowers, or in the draping of her sarong and kabaya.
The sarong is more to the Malay than is the kilt to the Scotchman.
The sarong and kris are distinctly and solely Malayan; they are shared with no other country; they are to be placed side by side with the green turban of the Moslem pilgrim and the cimeter of the Prophet.
One was the guide; the second was the mandor, naked save for a cotton sarong around his waist; the third was a stranger.
We swallow it hurriedly, wrap a sarong about us, and take a dip in the sea, the while keeping our eyes open for sharks.
In every-day dress he affected the English Prince Albert suit, to which he added a narrow silk sarong and a rimless black cap.
So whenever she went to Johore she put on her best sarong and kabaya> and in her jetty black hair she put the pin her aunt had given her, with a spray of sweet-smelling chumpaka flower.
A loudly checkered sarong encircled his waist, and from its many folds peeped out the silver hilt of the kriss that saw the light only on great festivals or during official receptions.
Lakamba snatched away the skirt of the sarong angrily.
He looked at the man's brown shoulders, at the red sarong round his waist; at the tall, slender, dazzling white figure he supported.
Be merciful, Lakamba," he added, twitching the corner of the Rajah's sarong warningly.
A short red sarong tightened hastily round his hips was his only garment.
His sarong was caught in the broken branch, and he hung with his head under water.
There was a great variety of silk weaving of every conceivable shape and style, the sarong being prominent.
It is also said that the women then adopted the same dress as the men, the panung, a garment something like the sarong but drawn up in the middle, front and back.
For, strangely, the lady wore only a sarong of thin material, a diaphanous jacket, and very low sandals; she might almost have posed as a life model.
On the Dutch boat upon which we left Batavia we saw posted notices designating the hours during which the sarong could be worn, and giving permission to men to wear a pajama-like outfit during the same hours.
The superiority of the Arab in this respect has given rise to the saying among the natives that the Chinaman leaves a native with nothing but a sarong while an Arab strips him bare.
The adults, both men and women, wear a sarong (except when the men content themselves with a breech cloth).
One of the striking peculiarities of Javanese life is the adoption of the sarong by the European women for morning wear.
The men, no matter what else they wear or fail to wear, have a scarf wound around the waist in which they carry a knife, of which there are several varieties, the bolo, the sarong and the kris being the most popular.
He felt the silken baju andsarong and the hilt of the kris against him, and then he went down heavily.
A fat man in the yellow sarong of a cook stood frozen in the act of handing a knife to a tall one-eyed sweeper.
Hassan is a perfect gentleman in manner, and in that silk jacket of his and handsome sarong he really looks like a prince.
Just as the greetings were over, Hassan, in a rich silk sarong and jacket, came down towards them.
The lower portion of these were thrust into some loose sandal slippers, the upper turned back as far under the chair as the stretch of the sarong would allow.
One rather prominent detail was a lady at a neighbouring table dressed only in a sarong and kabaya, with her extremities bare.
The officers while playing whist--dressed in their lounge clothes of sarong and their feet bare, were attacked and shot down almost to a man.
The sarong in hotels as well as in private life is worn, not only at breakfast, but also at the "reis tag.
The Malanese and Javanese women wear the sarong equally with the men.
It must be so pleasant to have a bath whenever you feel inclined, as the Malay women do by stripping off the loose jacket and plunging in, washing the sarong at the same time as themselves in the stream.
This sarong is wrapped tightly round the figure as a short petticoat; and worn with the kabayah, or loose cotton bed-jacket, with bare legs and feet slipped into heelless slippers.
A Malay of higher rank would add to the sarong a loose white jacket, and a turban.
Most amusing instructions are hung up in the saloon as to the wearing of the sarong and kabaya.
The coolie proper wears nothing but the sarong folded like a short petticoat, and caught up in front in the belt when walking.
When the Major wrote the Sarong and Kris, Perak and the Malays, it was remarked by one of the reviewers that he hoped the Major would some day give an account of the old jail to the world.
Many of the women wore old Dutch chintz gowns, or jackets, the costume of the remainder being the native sarong and kabya.
Then she smiled; she knotted her sarong more closely and lay down upon the bed again.
A very young woman in sarong and kabaai, with cheeks gleaming like pale gold and coal-black eyes inquisitively peeping, looked out in surprise at the carriage, which was approaching very slowly, and fled indoors.
She got up, flung a kimono over thesarong which she had knotted loosely under her arms and called to Oorip: "Bring the bath-things.
Why don't we live in a cool bamboo hut, sleep on a mat, dress in a cotton sarong and a chintz kabaai, with a scarf over our shoulders and a flower in our hair.
The stage on which these puppets are shown consists of an upright screen of white sarong cloth.
The women descend the slope with a slower step; they have pulled up their sarong over the bosom, leaving their shapely shoulders bare to the sun.
After a few months, you find him in your compound surrounded by the whole of your domestic staff, to whom he is selling sarong cloth and thin silks.
His sleek, well fashioned limbs glistened in the sunlight, and the sarong that was gracefully flung over one shoulder floated out behind like a flame fanned by the wind.
A wild shriek crashed through the intense stillness; a green sarong was torn off, and the white-clad figure of a juramentado rushed at the governor.
Sometimes a set of many tjaps is used to work out a pattern for a sarong or other garment.
The sarong kapala is square, and when fitted is starched and shaped to the head.
His long hair is done on the top of his head and bound around with a "sarong kapala.
The color and decoration of thesarong is influenced by caste and religion.
The Javanese man wears the sarong in the same manner as the women, which leads the foreigner to awkward misunderstandings.
Then there was a confused knot composed of reptile and men, rolling over, heaving and straining, and a gaily coloured sarong was thrown out, to fall a few yards away.
It was the little scarlet military cap and the brightly tinted plaid sarong with kris at the waist which gave the Eastern tinge to his appearance.
There was a faint cry, a slip, the sarong was held tightly, and Helen fell with a jerk that seemed to drag her left arm from the socket.
Altogether his appearance was unexceptionable, if he had dispensed with the gaudy silken sarong ablaze with a plaid of green, yellow, and scarlet.
I can see his hand playing with it now, although he has it enveloped in the folds of his silken sarong in token of peace.
They also wear gold or silver pins in their hair, and the sarong is girt or held up by a clasp of enormous size, and often of exquisite workmanship, in the poorer class of silver, and in the richer of gold jeweled with diamonds and rubies.
The sarong of the men does not reach much below the knee and displays loose trousers.
And Peter did rise, winding the sarong about his lean waist twice, allowing one end to dangle down on his left side in a debonair and striking fashion.
Let the sarong be wound about thy middle," commanded the Chinese maiden.
So he entered and closed the door, presenting a full view of his broad, white-uniformed back, and the gaudy-blue sarong about his waist.
Still I am convinced that not a quarter so much notice would have been taken of us, if we had worn petticoats instead of sarong and kabaja; had Dutch manners, and if European instead of Javanese blood had flowed through our veins.
A Javanese woman's dress consists of a sarong which is draped to form a skirt, and a kabaja, or jacket shaped garment.
The skirt and jacket of the Malay may vary, but the sarong is always of the same style, and the brighter the color the more it seems to please the wearer.
The sarong is scant and reminds one strongly of the hobble-skirt, as no Malay is able to take a full stride in it.
The woman smiled intelligently as she rearranged the bright-coloured plaid sarong around the child and said in a pleasant voice: "Ba-be bet-ter.
That's a piece of a silk sarong clinging to his waist, with a kris stuck in it.
He was simplicity itself then; all in white; muffled about his head; for arms only a kriss with a plain buffalo-horn handle, which he would politely conceal within a fold of his sarong before stepping over the threshold.
Karain slipped the dry sarong over his head, dropped the wet one at his feet, and stepped out of it.
And now within the sarong thrown over the grey head they were dropping unseen tears while Jorgenson's girl rocked herself to and fro, squatting alone in a corner of the dark hut.
My shoulders feel bound, too, and as to the sarong it is scandalously short.
From the twist of threadbare sarong wound tightly on the hips protruded outward to the left the ivory hilt, ringed with six bands of gold, of a weapon that would not have disgraced a ruler.
She had replaced her yachting skirt by a blue check sarong embroidered with threads of gold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
