But he was remarking everything; the noblemen in the dress of peasants sang as far out of tune as the King himself; the ladies in the attire of court shepherdesses flirted.
Nicole courtseyed as the shepherdessesdid in Rousseau's comic operas.
Very true," said the curate; "but we the others must look about for accommodating shepherdesses that will answer our purpose one way or another.
Following this, eight shepherds and sixteen shepherdesses made the service at the other tables; one and two advanced at a time, depositing their salvers and retiring to make way for others.
Dainty shepherdesses in waiting line stretched hand in hand to the water's edge, and formed a species of avenue leading to the table of honor.
They were coming closer at a fast pace, and as soon as the shepherds and shepherdesses saw them they withdrew in great haste.
The tables were all served by troops of shepherdesses dressed in cloth of gold and satin, after the fashion of the different provinces of France.
Its broad corridors and deep recesses are filled with shepherdesses such as you never saw, dressed in beautiful shimmering gowns, and wearing feathers in their hair that droop off sideways at every angle known to trigonometry.
These Shepherdesses fondling Lambs and Kids are nearly equal to mine.
Nay, Mr. Honeywood, just look at those Shepherdesses on the Mantel-Shelf, and say if it were not so with them.
The day they chose for their expedition was the great feast of the sheep-shearing, when all the shepherds and shepherdesses collected together to make merry.
But when a bevy of fair young shepherdesses approached, in all the first sweet bloom of early girlhood, she longed to have some flowers of the spring that would become their time of day.
She wore a dainty gown that she herself had made, and on her head was a crown of spring flowers that the shepherdesses had bound together with gay silken ribbons.
None of the shepherdesses were as beautiful as she was, and none were as gentle nor as full of grace.
The robbers meant to sell the shepherds and shepherdesses as slaves, but until merchants came to buy them they kept their prisoners in the darkest of the caves, and used them very cruelly.
A little way from where they sat, some shepherds and shepherdesses were dancing.
Hand in hand, the pretty shepherdesses danced round in a ring.
No gayer, lovelier shepherds and shepherdesseswere ever seen in Arcadia, than those of Rheinsberg to-day.
Look, the beautiful shepherdesses are seeking flowers in the meadows, and my wife stands alone upon the borders of the lake.
They prettily called themselves by the names of shepherds and shepherdesses out of Theocritus, and, being a republic, they refused to own any earthly prince or ruler, but declared the Baby Jesus to be the Protector of Arcadia.
My swains could not think of anything more to say, and the merits of my shepherdesses remained undecided.
The Mayor's daughter declared she was going to tend her geese out in the pasture, and the shepherdesses sprang out of their little beds of down, throwing aside their silken quilts, and cried that they must go out and watch their sheep.
At four o'clock the fiddlers put up their fiddles and the children went home; fairies and shepherdesses and pages and princesses all jabbering gleefully about the splendid time they had had.
The shepherdesses and the chimney-sweeps came home, and were washed and dressed in silks and velvets, and went to embroidering and playing lawn-tennis.
Chelsea we know, Derby we know, Bow we know, with their dainty china shepherdesses minding impossible sheep, and with gallants prinked out in all the colours of the humming-bird.
They are, when in this style, of the finnicking school of the Chelsea shepherds and shepherdesses known as of the boscage school.
Magnificent habits have seldom grace, which the dresses ofshepherdesses often have.
He is court-painter in ordinary to each of the senses in turn, and idealizes these frail favorites of his majesty King Lusty Juventus, till they half believe themselves the innocent shepherdesses into which he travesties them.
Aunt Lucy, if you do not smile this instant, I hope all the Greenwood shepherdesses will step from out the roses and disown you!
The shepherds and shepherdesses look," said Unity, "as though they were shivering a little.
It lit the ancient wall-paper where the shepherds and shepherdesses wooed between garlands of roses, and it aided the tone of time among the portraits.
From the walls men and women of the past smiled upon a stage they no longer trod, and between garlands of roses the shepherds and shepherdesses pursued their long, long courtship.
It is one of his masterpieces in the realm of the Pastoral which he also created--those pleasant landscapes of France in which he places handsomely dressed Dresden shepherds and shepherdesses playing at a dandified comedy of the Simple Life.
It was of these pastorals a waggish critic complained that the shepherds and shepherdesses look as if they must soon be off to the Opera again.
The critics were becoming more and more censorious; and one of them hits true with the comment that in his pastorals his shepherdesses look as if they had stepped over from the Opera and would soon be off again thereto.
His shepherds and shepherdesses were put to rout by the Romans of his pupil, citizen David.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shepherdesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
