When it rains they throw another petticoat over their heads with the waistband round their faces, or, if they are young, they use a heavyshawl like those worn in Galway.
She waited for a while till I got into conversation with her husband, and then she slipped into the corner and put on a clean petticoat and a bright shawl round her neck.
All the evening afterwards the old woman sat on her stool at the corner of the fire with her shawl over her head, keening piteously to herself.
The women wear red petticoats and jackets of the island wool stained with madder, to which they usually add a plaid shawl twisted round their chests and tied at their back.
A board, propped on two blocks of wood, stood in the middle of the walk, covered with a little plaid shawl much the worse for wear, and on it a miniature tea service was set forth with great elegance.
Hannah Upshaw, the girl with the shawl on, who never wore suits.
That even the little child pins a shawl about her waist and walks to and fro, looking over her shoulder, to get a sensation of?
Sylvie's shawl against the back, to cushion her more comfortably.
Aunt Blin turning up the gas cheerily, and dropping her shawl upon a chair.
There was a large gray travelling shawl folded over it now, making extra padding for back and seat, and the thick fringe fell below, a garnishing along the front.
And Aunt Blin actually set the cat down, and turned round to take up her shawl again.
She threw a shawl over her head and, taking a boat, sculled herself across the ferry for a calming walk down the coast-line.
I left my shawl there," she said, directing her course towards it.
She had not dressed herself for the occasion, but stood in her usual striped petticoat and bed-gown with a green tartan shoulder shawl of the Muir tartan and a snood of tartan ribbon to match in the red bronze coils of hair.
The girl sprang to her saddle, adjusted her dress, and directed the man to spread a folded shawl for her sister to ride behind.
She combed her hair with modest neatness, then opened the draw with much precaution, lest she should disturb poor Myra, who still slumbered on the hard mattrass--drew out a shawl and began to fold it as if to put it on.
The Indian woman, who had in her heart a general contempt for the white race, save those of our own household, drew her bright-colored shawl around her, and set off with her peculiar walk.
In less than a minute I was ready, for the warmth and softness of the air made cloak or shawl unbearable.
Well, Nanna," said he stroking his long beard which gave a venerable appearance to his benevolent features, "are you thinking of the fine shawl that Ragnar is to send you by his friend Jon Jonson?
You, my dear wife, must select the best, a silk shawl which you will find in the package.
Many of them show the "shawl pattern," small horizontal or diagonal stripes.
Nell was lying on a sofa with a shawl over her, and Jane Macalister was sitting by her side and holding her hand.
When you declined he became familiar, paid a compliment to Zoe's beauty, and assured her that a certain lace shawl in his possession would be irresistible draped about her face.
The knittedshawl she had snatched up and drawn over her head when she jumped into her father's arms was now rolled up as a pillow for Effie.
Her presence lost nothing when she took off hershawl and bonnet.
This time she went in charge of the charwoman, whose neat shabby shawl and bonnet, as symbols of respectability, were more than sufficient to keep all the night or day surgeons of London in their place.
When I knew her better I discovered that she owned a black shawl with fringe, and a bonnet that could tie under the chin, and in these made a very fine appearance.
Victorian was stamped all over her,--it was in her black shawl and bonnet, in the meekness of her pose, in the little curtsy she bobbed when she spoke.
It belonged to the old shawland the demure bonnet, to the meekness of pose, to the bobbing of curtsies,--it was Victorian.
She was in arrears to her landlord, her shawl with the fringe and her blankets were in pawn, she hadn't a farthing in her pocket.
At the gate I met a dignified, quaker looking lady with a small satchel and a black and whiteshawl on her arm.
There she stood at the edge of the carpet, waiting, her face, framed in that funny little black shawl, turned toward the window, and the tail of the little shawl kind of waggling in the wind.
Sometimes she would put on the little black head-shawl of her Budapest days and sing the street-song about the hundred geese in a row.
He had a greasy old blue shawl crossed over his breast, and rolled up, to keep the ends from the ground, into a great big lump on his back.
Hermione Roddice came up, in a handsome gown of white lace, trailing an enormous silk shawl blotched with great embroidered flowers, and balancing an enormous plain hat on her head.
Grandmamma stood by, warming a shawl to throw over her, and pitying her in audible whispers.
She lingered and could hardly resolve to go, but at length she entered, walked up the stairs, gave her shawl and bonnet to Beatrice, and tapped at Fred's door.
And before Henrietta had time to object, the bonnet was on her head, a shawl thrown round her, Beatrice had drawn her arm within hers, and had opened the sashed door into the garden.
Now, here is your shawl ready folded, and now I will trust you to put on your boots and bonnet by yourself.
She drew the knitted shawl more tightly round her spare and shivering body.
It was a bright morning but cold, and Miss Joliffe drew an old white knitted shawl closer about her, for there was no fire in the grate.
Lilian kissed her, threw a light shawl over her shoulders, then lighted the gas burner and set on the kettle.
No, I don't feel equal to it, I will put a shawl about me and sit on the porch.
With my striped shawl for a blanket, and the cock's feather out of Jersey's hat--what do you think?
The rent could be paid some time in advance, and her mother could have the new shawl she needed so badly: or would a cloak be better?
Late that evening Lena Laxen stole from her home with a shawl over her head, and met the clerk by the corner of the outer shed.
Baby Nan has company, Baby Nell has come a-calling In her carriage riding gay: Nan sits on a great soft shawl With two pillows, lest she fall.
Pillows bring for baby Nell; On the soft shawl seat her grandly, With her mouth set rose-bud way, And her grave blue eyes surveying This strange room she's so astray in.
She pointed to it, and Dan, as he gave it to her, recognized the shawl in which she wrapped herself when she crossed the icy wings.
Dan stood not far from the corridor that led to Letty Lane's room, and saw her after her act hurriedly cross the stage, a big white shawl wrapping her slender form closely.
A poor woman elbowed him, her shabby hat adorned by a scraggly plume, a gray shawl wrapped round her shoulders.
The woman in the gray shawl drew it close about her.
And the girl on the sofa from the depths of her shawl put out a thin little hand to him and said in a voice as lovely in tone as when she sang in Mandalay: "Well, I guess that's right!
She rewarded him as you reward a retriever, if not too wet, by giving him her shawl to take care of.
Spread the shawl on a clean linen cloth, and with a clean sponge dipped in the mixture, go carefully over it on both sides.
An olive merino shawl may have pink flowers entirely; a slate, or dark gray, or a purple will look well with rich gold-coloured flowers.
The shawl should be kept even, by placing weights along the edges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shawl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
