The choir of St. Serge developed the same idea in its own small, gracious way.
The nave of St. Serge is a mediocre XV-century structure.
Peter had a nice white serge suit, and nurse had put out a clean starched muslin for Isabel, but she (being rather a vain little girl) begged for her white silk.
Her dark serge lay at the bottom of her trunk, and for the important occasion she decided on her most cherished frock and the new hat, which in Richmond she had worn on high-days and holidays.
He had come steaming into town sixty miles an hour on his motorcycle, dressed in his best serge suit and wearing his brightest tie.
She was in sober, every-day serge now, and pulling on her second-best cloak.
I flatter myself that I quite look the part,--my meek, brown serge and cotton gloves and my oldest shoes and a well-meaning little hat which took more courage than all the rest.
There was resolute respectability in her blue serge suit, brushed shiny, too thin for December wear.
Her short, plain blueserge walking-frock disclosed the form of her limbs and left them free, and it made her look younger even than she was.
She wore a rather shabby serge frock, but no apron, and she did not resemble any kind of servant.
Her plain black serge gown, with its little ruffle at the neck, which would have made a dowdy of almost anybody but herself, was at once a fitting and becoming robe.
He no longer wore uniform, but was in blue serge with a thick brown overcoat.
As she spoke, she unbuttoned her ulster, disclosing beneath it her white serge dress.
She usually carried a pile of books in a strap, so he conjectured that she must be coming from school, and, ever since he had first seen her, she had worn the same rough blue serge dress, and the same quaint little fur hat.
She was wearing her smartest dress of blue serge and her gayest hat of a deep old red.
He wore a well-brushed blue serge suit with a red tie, and a small bowler hat.
If I may be allowed to say so, though, when you were good enough to give me the blue serge suit a short time ago, and a few of your old straw hats, two or three gentlemen stopped me under the impression that I was you.
Having to dump all of his business into Serge Paulvitch's hands on twenty-four hours' notice was irritating.
The little actress was looking very trim and neat in a simple blue-serge costume which fitted her to perfection, her hair very primly arranged and tied up with a bow.
Jean, shaking the needles from her serge skirt as she rose leisurely.
She wore a dark tan serge traveling coat with a brown service cap to match that set a bit rakishly on her red curls.
Then he kicked off his boots, which were stout--and every ounce mattered when one took to walking on muskegs; but as his clothing consisted of only a flannel shirt and serge knickerbockers there were no clothes for him to shed.
As a substitute for a leather lining and in order to prevent the serge lining from chafing a tender back, many riders adopt the expedient in vogue in India and use a leather saddle cloth called "numnah.
These are good for use in hot weather and keep the horse's back much cooler than would the serge lining, and save chafing.
Once she brushed an imaginary fleck of lint from the lap of her blue serge skirt--brushed, and brushed and brushed, with a mechanical, pathetic little gesture that showed how completely absent her mind was from the room in which she sat.
She did not shrink, so he let his hand slip down the neat blue serge sleeve until it reached her snugly gloved hand.
The girls at Chessington College were all dressed exactly alike, in a uniform costume of blue serge skirts, with blue or white cotton blouses for summer, and flannel ones for winter.
On Sundays they wore white serge coats and skirts, and for evenings white muslin or nuns' veiling.
He wore a blue flannel shirt, open at the neck and showing his fat chest covered with a mat of reddish hair, and a very old pair of blue serge trousers.
He felt that he must look prodigiously foolish in his blue serge suit and high collar--very neat and gentlemanly--with that ridiculous wreath of flowers on his head.
The sleeve band, from three and a half to four and a half inches in width, is of dull broadcloth on overcoats or winter clothing, and of serge on summer clothes.
Mourning clothes for the summer consist of plain black serge or tweed, silk or cotton material, all black with white organdy collar and cuffs, and a veil-less hat with a brim.
Men put on flannel trousers, soft shirts, and flannel or serge sack coats.
A skirt of burnt-orange serge of homespun or linen, and shirt-waists of orange linen or crepe de chine.
With a new keenness of conjecture he thought of the black serge dress; somewhere about Hilda's artistic indifference there might well lurk a tragic element.
She made little display of learning, but one felt it--like the silk lining in a plain serge gown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
