The swans fluttered round her, and hovered low so that she could throw the shirts over them.
And when the King had ridden off she took the littleshirts and went into the wood, and the reel showed her the way.
You must not speak or laugh for six years, and must make in that time six shirts for us out of star-flowers.
But she sat quietly sewing at the shirts and troubling herself about nothing.
The six shirts were done; there was only the left sleeve wanting to the last.
When she was led to the stake, she laid the shirts on her arm, and as she stood on the pile and the fire was about to be lighted, she looked around her and saw six swans flying through the air.
A vagabond among collarless vagabonds, I loafed up the street, looking into the fronts of little shops where they sold slopshirts at fancy prices, which shops I saw later described in the papers as "great.
But the studs of the shirts were made of stamped cloth upon the shirt front, and there were no trousers to those coats--nothing but a sweep of cheap black cloth falling like an abbe's frock.
Officers and men alike wore homespun hunting-shirts trimmed with colored cotton; the cloth was made from hemp, tow, and wild-nettle bark.
In summer they wore buckskin shirts and breech-clouts; in winter they were clad in the fur of the bear and wolf or of the shaggy buffalo.
Tom reproved such flashness--he invariably selects the gayest shirts himself--by burning the hat and all the newly-acquired finery.
On some North Queensland cattle stations, squatters' wives and daughters have adopted divided skirts, and black gins employed as stockriders wear shirts and trousers, which are returned to the store when not in active service.
If I had to sit in an office all day, or around a hotel where I had to wear one of them biled shirts and a coat cut like a tack puller, I'd die, believe me!
Will you grant that a lover must put on more clean shirts than are worn by either a husband, or a celibate unattached?
After that I thought of making shirts and I got a sewin’ machine from a big firm on the instalment system.
A heap of white shirts was piled on the orange box that stood in the middle of the floor, one shirt, the “finishing” of which had not been completed, lay on an old newspaper beside the fireplace.
He said the plot of the piece was, that the king wanted to marry the cook, but her relatives objected to the alliance, because his majesty hadn't got shirts enough for a change.
She procured socks, boots, and shirts in enormous quantities; she had trousers made, she rigged up dressing-gowns.
Up to the time of Miss Nightingale's arrival, the number of shirts the authorities had succeeded in washing was seven.
It was almost as good as a muster to see the firemen in their red shirts and black trousers, dragging the engine at a run, two and two together, one on each side of the rope.
Either they got their shirts on wrong side out in dressing, or else, while they were in, some enemy came upon them and tied their shirts.
She, Laura, was stitching on some shirts for "him.
We rocked again,--and Laura talked about plants and shirts and such healthy subjects.
I believe I have three shirts therein; that is all I have--I divide--go and get you one.
I took out some checked shirtsand knit socks and a pair of pants and jacket and divided the rest among the boys, who were all from Jefferson and Washington counties, and even to this day Capt Polhill declares I saved his life.
There are two oars," said I, "for a mast and a yard, and our shirts must furnish a sail.
We stepped an oar, with the shirts atop, and they blew out bravely and made a good signal.
The peasants of this country, men in shirts and drawers of coarse linen, and women with braided hair hanging down under linen veils, stopped their carts as soon as a post-carriage rushed into sight, and bent almost to the earth.
Our St. Regis Iroquois kept to the buckskins, though they often had hunting shirts of fulled flannel; and my father's buckskins were very dirty.
Afterwards means the time when you and I are buried, and the next generation are writhing in hair shirts of their own making, and prickly girdles which they put on themselves.
Agamemnon stripped their shirts from off them and left them with their breasts all bare to lie where they had fallen.
The maidens wore robes of light linen, and the youths well woven shirts that were slightly oiled.
Thus did he speak and they did even as he had said, and put on their shirts again after wiping the dust from off their bodies.
As soon as we landed, we were received with salutes of cannon and music, and flags and shirts streamed in the wind.
The shirts worn by the wealthy are often made of an extremely expensive home-made material, woven from the fibers of the pineapple or the banana.
The Chinese dress, as they have done for centuries, in loose white shirts and trousers.
Two shirts of this kind are in the Berlin Ethnographical Museum (Nos.
A dozen at a time the woolen shirts were brought to us, complete all but the adding of the linen strips in front where the buttons and buttonholes are stitched.
The store was apparently flourishing, and except for such few useful articles as stockings and shirts it was stocked with trash.
The price of this operation is paid for the dozen shirts five, five and a half and six cents, according to the complexity of the finish.
My best day I finished sixteen dozen shirts and netted $1.
Another company in red trousers and white shirts marched by us, carrying their bundles to the river.
And when Young England and his companions began to put their shirts on, over their clothes, and to play all sorts of fantastic tricks in them, why didn't you come and tell your poor father and me, like a dutiful C.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
