She could do a little of everything, from seating Tommy's trousers to setting patches in Ellen's sleeves; from making lambrequins and table scarfs to laundrying lace curtains and upholstering furniture.
They could not see why it was not just as sensible a thing to make and sell good bread as to paint scarfs or embroider tidies, and mother, after she heard of their proposal, quite agreed with them.
I've bought three scarfs of red; I 'll be red as any rose; My love will rain his kisses When such a floweret blows.
I've bought three scarfs of brown; I 'll be brown as any owl; None will dare to ask a kiss From such a timorous fowl.
I've bought three scarfs of white; I 'll be white as any swan, And none will dare embrace me, When the three white scarfs I don.
Aunt Mary is of those worthy women who upholster themselves and dress their furniture, so everything in her home is rather fussy, lots of antimacassars and tidies and scarfs and that sort of thing.
But I have crochet cramp and worsted wrist from finishing a million scarfs since we sailed, so I feel it will ease the strain to begin a letter to you.
The consequence is, you will be decorative in any of the smart coats, close hats and scarfs in brilliant and lovely hues,--silk or wool.
The welding is done as follows: Place the scarfs of both pieces separately in the fire, the scarfs downward.
When we speak of scarfs we refer to the bevelled edge of the roughest part of the scarf.
Large scarfs are sometimes made by using a fuller.
When the scarfs are made like the drawing, bend the ends so that the scarfs overlap.
The inside is rounded up at the same time the scarfs are being welded into place.
As soon as the pieces stick together the ends of the scarfs are welded first.
This is the quickest way to make a scarf, and the weld depends wholly upon how the scarfs are made in any one of the operations spoken of here.
Their only touches of color were the scarfs of pale green crepe de chine which were passed under their sailor collars, and tied in a sailor knot at the open necks of their blouses.
They slipped into their evening coats, and, taking their pink and blue chiffon scarfs in their hands, they reached the hotel veranda before any one missed them.
Aunt Nancy's got to have those mourning scarfs taken away before she comes!
Those black scarfs hurt me," she said, and the July morning grew misty.
Little Miss Randolph puts snapdragon caps upon them and gives them scarfs of ribbon grass.
And Aunt Nancy has ordered black scarfs to be put above the pictures of Uncle Henry and of Great-Aunt Jacqueline that Jacqueline's named for.
Four shawl dresses, four magnificent square shawls, and four long scarfs to match the dresses--but the fineness and the brightness of the whole concern it is impossible to describe.
He had provided an immense troop of them, and they were covered with jewels and dressed in gold brocades, some purple and some red, with long floating scarfs of gold gauze.
Meantime the Jews were crowding out of the synagogues in festal array, with their prayer-scarfs and prayer-books in their hands.
They began at the top of the room, holding the scarfs aloft, and slowly made their way down until they were in the centre, when the full light gleamed strongly upon their raised arms, their heads well up.
The dance is a species of Spanish dance, I fancy, for it is done with two scarfs of red and yellow; I purchased the stuff a year ago from a Dutch peddler, and Miranda begged it of me last week.
The sun showed itself for a moment before setting, and flung a few lovely flame-covered scarfs about the dazzling heads of the volcanoes; but the world we were in remained damp and dark, and we turned home quite willingly.
Madame Lefaivre suggested at this point that we had better frankly accept le temps comme le bon Dieu l'avait envoye, so scarfs and shawls were brought, with suggestions of overcoats.
Then came twelve city officials, with swords by the sides and their scarfs on.
Here stood the city officials in their scarfs of office.
Until ten o'clock the mountain and the tops of the redwoods were tangled in scarfs of white fog, then the mellow sunlight pierced it with sudden spectacular brightening and lifting.
How dear to me are flowered gowns and evening skies and women with scarfs about their shoulders.
As they advance, one or two dash forward, at risk of their lives, flinging off the orange scarfs which alone distinguish them, in token that they desert to the royal cause.
The red scarfs are fine barbers, when a republican wants shaving.
Plume, who had never heard who the red scarfs were.
I couldn't do much, you know, for I had only a stick; but of course we red scarfs will always stick to each other.
We are all red scarfs; all the men who clambered into Saumur through the water, are to wear red scarfs till the war is over; and they are to be seen in the front, at every battle, seige and skirmish.
It was he that sent Chapeau over here to bring the red scarfs to the rescue.
These Roman scarfs are very pretty ornaments for the necks and shoulders of ladies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarfs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
