Then he took up the shirtwaist strike with a fussy disapproval--they got nothing by violence, only set the public against them and their cause.
On her white shirtwaist was a pleated jabot of cheap lace, caught with a large novelty pin of imitation coral.
She bought another pair of silk stockings that she had hesitated at for weeks, and on Tuesday night sewed and drowsed wearily over a new shirtwaist and earned complaint from Sarah concerning her extravagant use of gas.
Over the shirtwaist was a natty jacket, elbow-sleeved, and to the elbows she wore gloves of imitation suede.
Believe me, I wish I had half a dollar for every shirtwaist I bought off him in my life!
She laughed in low, rich tones, and her shirtwaist rose and fell rapidly from short breathing.
Then she pulled down her shirtwaist all around and went down to supper.
There was one whose shirtwaist seemed especially beautiful.
The curly-haired man nonchalantly put his arm about the gorgeous shirtwaist and, with his face rather close to his partner's, swung off into a dizzy two-step.
Meta Beggs wore a shirtwaistperforated like a sieve; through it he saw flimsy lace, a faded blue ribband, her gleaming shoulders.
Her similarity to Lettice grew still more apparent--she presented the same order, her white shirtwaist had been crisply ironed, her shoes were rubbed bright and neatly tied.
You thought I was wasting away in a shirtwaist factory!
The women wore every variety of hat, from an immense sailor perched above an immense fat face, above an immense shirtwaist bust, to minute turbans and waving plumes.
Mrs. Abbott appeared in a few moments, smiling, cool, in immaculate white, the collar of her shirtwaist high and unwilted.
I'd like to suggest a couple of shirtwaist cases," said Mrs. Smith.
She'll go back, shirtwaist and all, and you can begin over again.
The Triangle shirtwaist fire in New York City in 1910 not only burned up valuable property but caused a cruel loss of life.
Awkwardly, the man searched in the front of his shirtwaist and drew forth a paper which Del Mar almost seized in his eagerness.
In the corner of the office, Elaine, again in her skirt and shirtwaist which the diving-suit had protected, sat open-eyed watching the preparations of the men for the hasty departure.
Most of the girls wear simple white shirtwaist suits under their gowns.
Her dress was a simple, inexpensive shirtwaist suit, but every article about her was in order.
Elizabeth was struggling into a white shirtwaistas she talked.
All I could see was her gingham shirtwaist suit with its prudish white linen cuffs and collar, and her rough straw hat.
She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian.
She was dressed simply in a shirtwaist and a dark skirt, but Honora thought her striking looking.
Your whiteshirtwaist and skirt," announced the girl at length.
Betty needed that encouragement, for when it came to making Mrs. Peabody look pretty in the voluminous white skirt and stiff shirtwaist of ten years past, the task seemed positively hopeless.
Judy's hair was blown, her collar and shirtwaist were rumpled, her shoes dusty and the tears in the train had left a smudge on her cheek.
Standing by her machine, she waved her unfinished shirtwaistas though it were an enemy banner.
A picture of Minnie Barker, very freckled, with a snub nose, reddish hair and a shirtwaist that was always pulling up from her skirt at the back, came to Hertha and she laughed.
Her soft white shirtwaist set off her fresh cheeks, her gray eyes, her large but sensitive mouth.
Then the pin may be fastened to the inside of the jacket or slipped inside of the shirtwaist band pinned to the undergarment, or attached to the skirtband and allowed to hang down outside.
An unused shirtwaist box was suggested and has been found to answer every purpose, besides providing an extra seat when such a seat was desirable.
An excellent place in which to pack away sheets of music that are not in constant use is a large box fitted with a hinged cover and upholstered in cretonne, after the manner of shirtwaist boxes so much in vogue.
He turned to see that gentleman strolling off in the direction of the notion counter behind which his expert eye had caught a glimpse of Sadie in her white shirtwaist and her trim skirt.
What she did was to put on a white shirtwaist and a black skirt at seven o'clock the morning after the funeral.
And Elinor's expression seemed to Arethusa to be one of incredulity, so she turned back her shirtwaist cuff to prove her statement, and showed the end of a long, knit sleeve.
His hand seemed as if afire, as if burning through her shirtwaist the flesh of her shoulder.
Harpe pushed her unpinned Stetson to the back of her head with a careless gesture; it was a man's gesture and her strong hand beneath the stiff cuff of her tailored shirtwaist strengthened the impression of masculinity.
The girl was lying in a limp heap on the bunk, her face, her hands and wrists, her white shirtwaistsmeared horribly with blood, while an unforgettable look of terror and repulsion seemed frozen in her eyes.
When she had drained it without removing it from her lips she drew her shirtwaist sleeve across her mouth to dry it, in a fashion peculiarly her own.
Beneath the washed-out blue shirtwaist dress her chest was high, as if vocal.
That there was anybody left in the world who could look like that in a white shirtwaist at 6:30 A.
She thought about her at night when she was washing and ironing her other shirtwaist for next day's wear.
As Gabriella passed them, in her white shirtwaist and dark belted skirt, they looked thoughtfully after her until her sailor hat, with the scarlet band, crossed Broad Street and disappeared on the opposite side.
She told them she was going to burn it on her shirtwaist box as well, and showed them where she had woven it into her headband, a gorgeous thing of brown and orange-red beads.
There's nothing for it but a shirtwaist and skirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirtwaist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
