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Example sentences for "shawled"

Lexicographically close words:
shavers; shaves; shaving; shavings; shawl; shawls; shay; she; sheaf; shealing
  1. But at last, as he peered listlessly out on glimpses of the dreary, strange road caught between the shawled heads of two other passengers, his eyes suddenly fell on something delightfully familiar.

  2. Their lights shone out into the rainy mist of the air, on the glistening pavements, and on the faces of the cheerful chattering crowd, to which the shawled heads so common among the women gave the characteristic Lancashire touch.

  3. She had already flown upstairs; but the shawled mill-girls, round the door, flushed with excitement, shouted their news into his ear.

  4. We left the gondola, and walked up a dark and narrow rioterrĂ  with coquettish, black-shawled grisettes chatting at glowing fruit-stalls and macaroni shops.

  5. The black-shawled women whose laughter defied the nightly peril have gone for the most part, taking with them the alert "bambini," who at that period still shouted at play in the streets.

  6. Elmira, behind him, began to cry, holding up one little shawled arm like a wing before her face.

  7. The red sparks of two or three cigarettes in the shadow of the summer-house, and the crouching forms of two shawled women came forward to greet him.

  8. Two muffled and shawled domestics, who sat by his side, might have been mourners, but for their voluble and incessant chattering.

  9. Once the door opened and the shawled head of the old half-breed woman poked in.

  10. It was old Calamity, red-shawled and stooping.

  11. And his father racing across the continent, to stand with the shawled women at the head of the shaft.

  12. Therefore she shawled her head and her baby in her sea-blue cloak, locked the shop-door, and followed La Testolina.

  13. Turning sharply, I confronted a group of my fellow-worshippers, who, shawled and sashed and daggered, looked as if they had been expressly gotten up for stage bandits.

  14. Unconscious of that issue, the black-shawled figure knelt, never moving.

  15. VI Alone with that black-shawled figure in the silent church, Anna did not pray.

  16. She was loudly and volubly giving her version of what had happened; and a crowd of bare-headed or shawled friends added their voices to the confusion.

  17. Near me was a handsome Spaniard in a charming frock and Paris hat, side by side with a shawled peasant, and a Spanish captain chatted gaily with a friend and smoked a cigarette.

  18. No sooner was the door opened than I ran down into the hall; there lay a trunk and some band-boxes, beside them stood a person like a nurse-girl, and at the foot of the staircase was Warren with a shawled bundle in his arms.

  19. People occasionally came in with papers--bills of lading and so on--and once or twice, shawled women entered and asked if there was any word of the Dunlevin.

  20. There were several shawled women among them, evidently seeing their men off, and some of the men appeared to be very drunk.

  21. Women shawled with fabric of Cashmere, borne above the envious street, but heeding neither its shifting crowd nor its shows.

  22. As I ceased speaking, the parlor door opened and the mistress of the house entered, bonneted and shawled for a walk, and accompanied by Fred, who announced himself a complete wreck from a frolic in the nursery.

  23. Then the kitchen door slammed loudly and a shawled figure sped towards the gate.

  24. The shawled figure had been his Aunt Martha dashing with the alarm to the neighbors.

  25. He met his sister shawled and bonneted in the porch.

  26. For instance, in the little matter of appealing for street directions, I found the shawled women and the pale men would go far out of their ways to put me on the right path.

  27. With the shawled mothers who line the lane on a pleasant evening, I stood between the widow and a twenty-year-old girl who held her tiny blind baby in her arms.

  28. She was heavily shawled and wore gloves (as she did constantly now), and she had an old white Indian scarf over her head.

  29. This brought to mind the red-shawled woman whom I had seen down the road.

  30. Such was my mood when at a turn of the road a red-shawled figure, surely a Gypsy, appeared for a moment and as suddenly was lost to sight down a gloomy yew-fringed drive leading to the rear of a low grey mansion.

  31. Shawled wives went less frequently with tin pails to the side entrances of saloons.

  32. Presently he crossed the street and drew up to a be-shawled girl whose black stockings were patched with white skin.

  33. Nancy, her well-shawled baby in her arms, left her home in the early afternoon to walk for a while in the crisp, sweetly-scented air.

  34. Those yarns of the Shawled Woman, have been told and retold so many years now, they've grown way beyond their first facts, if there ever was any truth to 'em.

  35. Do you not all remember the night when Professor Hardwick saw the apparition of the Shawled Woman?

  36. So I'm going to take the haunted room for my own and if the Shawled Woman appears, I'll pin a tag on her shawl.

  37. Still but a misty wraith, the awful thing leaned over the prostrate man and as the shawled head drew near, Professor Hardwick saw dimly the face of his visitor, and it was a skull!

  38. Fraid I'll be carried off by the Shawled Woman?

  39. If the Shawled Woman prowled about, he did not see or hear her.

  40. I detest shawled women waking me up at four o'clock, to take my poison!

  41. The shawled woman filled the specifications too accurately to seem convincing.

  42. She was late, and she found the Freule waiting, shawled and gaitered and exceedingly nervous, in the dim drawing-room, amid driblets of unwilling conversation with Juffrouw Josine.


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